About
My name is Ian McEwan, I’m a project manager and game designer. With more than 4 years in the games industry, my experience is very diverse.
In 2005 I began working with the casual game studio Teabag Games, LLC as a Project Manager and Game Designer. During my time at Teabag, I managed the day to day development of all active titles. It was my job to create all forms of documentation for each title and make sure communication was flowing between all team members.
While development was underway, it was both my focus and that of company president Michael Nierdsted to design and plan the next wave of titles. I designed and wrote game documentation for eight titles. During my time, four titles were ultimately developed at the studio.
In early 2007, I was given the opportunity to join the team at 2XL Games, Inc. to help develop BAJA for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Though initially I was hired to assist with the licensing of teams and sponsors (more than 450 featured in the shipped product) and to improve communication with art outsource studio TQ China, my role quickly moved onto the day-to-day tracking of all art and programming tasks on BAJA.
BAJA shipped on-time and under budget in September 2008. Not long after, 2XL turned it’s attention to one of the largest developing game markets around: iTunes.
In April 2009, 2XL’s first title hit the Apple App Store. 2XL Supercross was met with raves review; it was praised as the first game on the iPhone that compares to games on the Sony PSP (iLounge). Continuing on it’s success I was given the opportunity to Produce 2XL Games’ next iPhone title. In October 2009, 2XL ATV Offroad arrived on the iTunes App Store, and garnered praise for once again “[taking] the iPhone to a new level” (ESPN).
To finish off 2009, 2XL then took a step into the casual games space boasting 2XL Fleet Defense a “Unique twist on path management genre” (AppSmile).
Just in game for the Winter X Games 14, ESPN and 2XL came together to develop X Games SnoCross for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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