What Happened?
Santa Ana, CA-based Ready at Dawn has Promoted Andrea Pessino as Chief technology officer
About the Company
Ready at Dawn is a game development studio with a single mission: making fun games a lot of people want to play. We know it sounds trite and basic, but reality sometimes is much simpler than we pretend it to be. The most important of all the things we have learned: the best way to turn a good idea into a great game is to evolve it, draw it, hate it, shape it, demolish it, eat it, tune it, forget it, resent it, sing it, insult it, love it, live it with friends
About the Person
A twenty year veteran of the computer entertainment industry Andrea Pessino was, before co-founding Ready At Dawn Studios, a Senior Software Engineer with leading game developer Blizzard Entertainment. He has authored core technologies for several published Blizzard blockbusters such as WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos, its recent expansion WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne, and has contributed technology for Blizzard's for Blizzard′s MMORPG World of WarCraft. Before Blizzard, Andrea was a Senior Software Scientist with MetaCreations Corp., where he co-authored a number of best-selling graphics applications, including: Kai′s Power Tools, KPT Convolver, Kai′s Photo Soap, Kai′s Photo Show, Bryce and Kai′s Power Goo, for which he received numerous industry accolades, including the 1996 PC Magazine "Graphics Software of the Year" award. Andrea is now a co-founder and the Technical Director of Ready At Dawn Studios. He supervises all the engine architecture and R&D A classically trained musician, Andrea has degrees in composition, harmony and music theory, and he is an accomplished pianist. He continues to this day to compose for the concert hall. His works have been performed by various ensembles and orchestras around the world. His orchestration work on the cinematics for Blizzard′s Diablo II® earned him the 2001 IGDA Game Developers Choice Award for "Excellence in Audio." A native of Italy, Andrea has lived and worked in California since 1990.
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