Biography
Jamie Fristrom is a partner, technical director, and designer at Torpex Games where they just completed the game Schizoid--"The Most Co-Op Game Ever"--available on Xbox Live Arcade - and he's writing this in the third person.
Prior to Schizoid, Jamie was a technical director and designer on Spider-Man 2, his biggest claim to fame being that he invented its dynamic, physical swinging system...loved even by Zero Punctuation! Other games Jamie's worked on include Spider-Man 1 for PS2, XBox, and GameCube, Tony Hawk for the Dreamcast, Die By The Sword for the PC, and the Magic Candle series of RPGs. Heck, here's my mobygames rap sheet.
Jamie wrote the "Manager in A Strange Land" column for Gamasutra and holds the world record for writing game development post-mortems in Gamasutra and *Game Developer* magazine. He's also on the committee for the IGDA Leadership Forum.
I can be reached at jdfristrom - at - gmail.com. I also turn on Trillian once in a blue moon where I'm Podjamie on AIM or jdfristrom on Yahoo. And my xbox live tag is "Jamie Fristrom" - I think I may be the only person who used their real name for their tag...
