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. Other games he'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. 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 has spent some time on game engineering and management consulting as well as doing all his in-the-trenches game development.
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...
