Andrew Braybrook

Andrew Braybrook is a software engineer, a former game programmer. He created video games such as Paradroid, Gribbly's Day Out, Fire and Ice, Uridium and Morpheus.[1] He also programmed the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST conversion of the arcade game Rainbow Islands. [2] Braybrook started out writing accounting programs for GEC Marconi using COBOL in 1979.[3] In his spare time he wrote games in BASIC for the ZX80, ZX81 and Dragon 32.[4] His first foray into professional games came while he was playing bass guitar in a rock band with Steve Turner. Steve was writing games for the ZX Spectrum in his spare time and decided to make his break into full-time games production by starting the company which went on to become Graftgold. A few months after its inception, Turner asked Braybrook to join him in September 1983. Braybrook was commissioned by the magazine Zzap!64 to write a diary detailing the making of the video game Paradroid.[5]

In 1986 Braybrook was voted Best Programmer of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards.[6]

Braybrook now works as a senior software developer for a large insurance firm.

References

  1. ↑ Andrew Braybrook at MobyGames
  2. ↑ "Backspace", The One (EMAP) (11), August 1989: 98, retrieved 2015-07-14
  3. ↑ "Linkedin profile". linkedin.com.
  4. ↑ "RetroGamer profile". retrogamer.net.
  5. ↑ "Birth of a Paradroid (Web Archive)", Zzap!64 (3), July 1985: 46, retrieved 2014-06-23
  6. ↑ "Golden Joystick Awards". Computer and Video Games (EMAP) (66): 101. April 1987.


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