Dickie subsequently became a developer of educational software, which he published on TES. Dickie developed it in three months, which PC Gamer said made it the "best worst game ever." He then decided to retire from game development, after realizing that he was unable to meet the increasing expectations of gamers and critics. ĭickie released The You Testament in early 2009, a game loosely based on the New Testament in which the player follows the life and times of Jesus Christ and his various miracles. Dickie was also looking forward to develop his wrestling brand with them however, they felt it was a conflict of interest. The game was almost released through a subsidiary of THQ. In 2007, Dickie created his first major non-wrestling game, Hard Time, a prison simulator which was named by Games for Windows Magazine as the "Indie Game of the Month". In order to counteract this issue, 1PW attempted to buy the rights to the whole game off of Dickie instead of the rights to sell the version he had created for the promotion at their live shows, with the added benefit of him getting to meet the wrestlers working for the promotion at the time, including Bret Hart and Jeff Jarrett. In 2006, Idigicon, who had previously published one of Dickie's games, Boxer's Story, contacted him again to make a version of his newest release, Wrestling Encore, for the British professional wrestling promotion One Pro Wrestling however, legal complications arose due to 1PW not having the video game license to the American professional wrestlers working for them. In that same year, he released his first complete game, Federation Online, a flash-based wrestling game. He moved to Manchester in 2001 to complete a Bachelor of Science in video games and computers at Salford University. The game took two weeks to complete and was posted on a wrestling website where it received 15,000 downloads and positive feedback, which inspired him to continue making video games and to make his own website in November 2000 to host his games. The game had the player play as one of the Hardy Boyz, who were wrestlers in the WWF (later renamed the WWE). ĭickie released his first game, Hardy Boyz Stunt Challenge, in August 2000. He purchased it from his local Woolworths branch, and spent the summer of 2000 learning it from the examples. Career PC game development (2000–2011) ĭickie began creating his first game after he stumbled across a copy of DIV Game Studio, a programming language that promised to make game development easy. ĭickie also tinkered with Deluxe Paint on his Commodore Amiga until he acquired a PC in 1998, which signaled the beginning of his game development career. Some of his works were influenced by games he played as a child, including WWF No Mercy, Super Fire Pro Wrestling and WWF WrestleFest. He became interested in developing games at an early age, often sketching out ideas for games. His parents worked on a small newsstand, where he stayed while they worked, and boredom drove him to express his creativity by producing makeshift toys for himself with the materials available there. Mat Dickie was born in Brigg, North Lincolnshire. The indie and low budget nature of Dickie's games have often contributed to their popularity, leading to Dickie describing himself as being "single-handedly responsible for the worst games to ever be enjoyed by millions of people." Early life He has mentioned that the low resolution and low poly graphics in his games have allowed for better performance, in turn enabling him "to push a lot of boundaries". Many of Dickie's games are infamous for their awkward controls and poor graphics. This project later emerged as Wrestling Empire, which was released in early 2021. In 2019, Dickie confirmed that a new wrestling project was in development for the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. However, he once again retired from full-time game development in 2018. He came out of retirement in late 2011 and transitioned to mobile game development, which led to the release of Wrestling Revolution in 2012. ĭickie began his game development career in 2000 with his first PC game, going on to retire in 2009 to become an educator. The game later went on to surpass 10 million downloads and its sequel, Wrestling Revolution 3D, went on to compete with WWE 2K games on the mobile and PC market. He is best known for his indie professional wrestling games, such as Wrestling Revolution for iOS and Android devices, which received over 100,000 downloads two months after its launch in 2012. Mat Dickie (born 1980/1981), professionally known as MDickie, is an English independent video game developer and author. Wrestling Revolution 3D, Hard Time, Wrestling Empire
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