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American McGee

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American McGee (born December 13, 1972) is an...

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American McGee

American McGee (born December 13, 1972) is an American game designer. He is currently the CEO and Founder of Mysterious LLC. McGee began his career at id Software. He was a level designer for such games as Doom II, Quake, and Quake II. In 1998, he moved to Electronic Arts, where he worked as a Creative Director on many projects and also created American McGee’s Alice. In 2000 upon completing Alice, he left EA and began work as an independent game developer. American has been in China since 2004, and currently lives in Shanghai. There, he helped establish video game outsourcing venture Vykarian. Then, in 2006 he announced the formation of a new game development studio Spicy Horse. The studio’s first project was “American McGee’s Grimm“, a unique episodic game produced for GameTap. In 2010 Spicy Horse released “Alice: Madness Returns” a AAA console title for the worldwide market published through Electronic Arts. 2011 saw Spicy Horse shift their development efforts to the online, F2P gam