Simon Phipps is a British

Great Britain

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 self-taught game programmer

Game programmer

A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebase for video games or related software, such as game development tools. Game programming has many specialized disciplines all of which fall under the umbrella term of "game programmer"...

 and video game designer. He began making games in 1982 when he wrote his first published video game he wrote while he was at school. He spent a few months writing business software

Business software

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 before he was approached to provide some freelance artwork for Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

-based Gremlin Graphics. At his interview, he was offered a full-time position.

Phipps has worked on Acclaim Entertainment

Acclaim Entertainment

Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Game Gear, Nintendo's NES, SNES, Nintendo...

's hit Shadow Man

Shadow Man (video game)

Shadow Man is a video game developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside and published by Acclaim Entertainment. It was designed by Guy Miller and Simon Phipps and is loosely based on the Shadowman comic book series published by Valiant Comics. The game was released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64,...

, alongside game designer Guy Miller. Phipps worked for Acclaim Teesside, but about 9 months into making the game ShadowMan: 2econd Coming, he left for Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

 (EA) where he worked alongside Guy Miller on the Harry Potter

Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

 games for five years.

In 2006 he moved to EA's studio Criterion Games

Criterion Games

Criterion Games is a Guildford, England based British video game developer. It is best known for its work on the award-winning, multi-platform Burnout series, the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox first-person shooter Black.Criterion Software Ltd was created in 1993 to commercialise 3D...

 working on a number of unpublished titles as well as contributing to their website and video podcast.

In early 2009 he left EA and joined Eurocom

Eurocom

Eurocom is a British video game developer founded specifically to develop games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Since then Eurocom has expanded to several other platforms including handheld game systems and most major video game consoles.The company was once famous for its arcade to console...

.

Games

• Jet Power Jack
• Masters of the Universe: the Movie
• Skate Crazy
• Night Raider
• Rick Dangerous
  Rick Dangerous
  Rick Dangerous is a series of two platform games released by Core Design in the 1980s.- Rick Dangerous :...
  
  
• Switchblade
• Saint and Greavsie's Football Trivia
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Rick Dangerous 2
• Thunderhawk
  Thunderhawk (Video Game)
  Thunderhawk is a helicopter combat simulator game released by Core Design for the Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC in 1991, and for the Sega Mega-CD in 1993. The game was renamed to AH-3 ThunderStrike for its USA release.In the game the player is part of the "MERLIN" helicopter combat assault team,...
  
  
• Wolfchild
  Wolfchild
  Wolfchild is a platform game originally released for the Amiga and the Atari ST by Core Design in 1992. It was later released for the SNES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Mega-CD, Sega Master System, and Sega Game Gear....
  
  
• Asterix and the Power of the Gods
• Bubba 'n' Stix
  Bubba 'N' Stix
  Bubba 'n' Stix is a 2-D side-scrolling platform game for the Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga and Amiga CD32 designed by Core Design and released by Tengen in 1993.The player controls Bubba, a redneck character, who is accompanied by a sentient stick named Stix...
  
  
• Shellshock
• College Slam
  College Slam
  College Slam is a college basketball console game published by Acclaim. Its gameplay is nearly identical to NBA Jam, on which it is based. It includes most major Division I colleges, but there are many, such as the University of Tennessee, the University of Notre Dame, and Mississippi State...
  
  
• ShadowMan
  Shadow Man (video game)
  Shadow Man is a video game developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside and published by Acclaim Entertainment. It was designed by Guy Miller and Simon Phipps and is loosely based on the Shadowman comic book series published by Valiant Comics. The game was released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64,...
  
  
• ShadowMan: 2econd Coming
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in North America, is an Electronic Arts multi-platform action-adventure video game developed by KnowWonder, Warthog, Griptonite, Argonaut, Eurocom and Westlake Interactive...
  
  
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a action-adventure game published by Electronic Arts and developed by both EA's internal development team and Eurocom for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube and Game Boy Advance systems. It was simultaneously co-developed by Amaze Entertainment for...
  
  
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a computer and video game that was released concurrently with the film release of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Both the game and the film were based on J. K...
  
  
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a computer and video game that was released right before the film release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Both the game and the movie are based on J. K...
  
  
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a video game that is based on the fifth instalment of the popular Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling and the film of the same name, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii, Game Boy Advance and Mac OS X...
  
  

External links

• Phipps' Webpage