Chris Beatrice
Encyclopedia
Chris Beatrice is a game designer noted for primary creative development of popular historical city-building game
s, including Caesar, Lords of the Realm, Pharaoh, and Zeus. Caesar and Lords of the Realm exceeded 1,000,000 in sales and received Editor's Choice awards from Computer Gaming World
and PC Gamer
magazines, respectively.
Beatrice worked at Sierra Entertainment's
Impressions Games
studio as art and creative director, director of design and development, and general manager. In 2001 he founded Tilted Mill Entertainment
as President and Director of Development.
City-building game
City-building games are a genre of strategy computer game where players act as the overall planner and leader of a city, looking down on it from above, and being responsible for its growth and management...
s, including Caesar, Lords of the Realm, Pharaoh, and Zeus. Caesar and Lords of the Realm exceeded 1,000,000 in sales and received Editor's Choice awards from Computer Gaming World
Computer Gaming World
Computer Gaming World was a computer game magazine founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe as a bimonthly publication. Early issues were typically 40-50 pages in length, written in a newsletter style, including submissions by game designers such as Joel Billings , Dan Bunten , and Chris Crawford...
and PC Gamer
PC Gamer
PC Gamer is a magazine founded in Britain in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future Publishing. The magazine has several regional editions, with the UK and US editions becoming the best selling PC games magazines in their respective countries...
magazines, respectively.
Beatrice worked at Sierra Entertainment's
Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment Inc. was an American video-game developer and publisher founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems by Ken and Roberta Williams...
Impressions Games
Impressions Games
Impressions Games was a video game developer founded by David Lester in the UK. He sold the company to Sierra Entertainment in 1995, who was then bought out by Cendant and eventually, Vivendi Universal ....
studio as art and creative director, director of design and development, and general manager. In 2001 he founded Tilted Mill Entertainment
Tilted Mill Entertainment
Tilted Mill Entertainment is a video game developer located in Framingham, Massachusetts. It was founded in 2001 by former Impressions Games lead designer and general manager Chris Beatrice, business manager Peter Haffenreffer, and designer Jeff Fiske....
as President and Director of Development.
Game development roles
- Caesar (1993, 1995, 1998) series – Art Director, Creative Director, General Manager
- Lords of the Realm (1994, 1996, 2004)Lords of the RealmLords of the Realm is a turn-based strategy computer game published and developed by Impressions Games. It was first released on June 15, 1994, and is the first game in the Lords of the Realm series....
series – Art Director; Interface Designer, Lead Designer, Project Lead, Director of Development
- Lords of Magic (1997, 1998)Lords of MagicLords of Magic is a turn-based strategy PC game designed for Windows 95/98 by Sierra Entertainment. The game, which was distributed on CDs, includes a single-player mode and limited multiplayer features on LAN and the Internet as well...
series – Co-Designer & Creative Director
- Pharaoh (1999, 2000)Pharaoh (computer game)Pharaoh is an isometric city-building game set in Ancient Egypt created by Impressions Games and published by Sierra Entertainment for Windows-based computers...
series – Lead Designer & Project Lead
- Zeus (2000, 2001) series – Lead Designer & Project Lead
- Children of the Nile (2004, 2005) - Lead Designer
- Caesar IV (2006)Caesar IVCaesar IV is a city-building game set in ancient Rome, developed by Tilted Mill Entertainment. The game was released on September 26, 2006 in North America. The game features a three-dimensional game engine and individual modeling of game character behaviors.Like its original release Caesar in...
- Lead Designer
- SimCity Societies (2007)SimCity SocietiesSimCity Societies received mixed reviews. GameZone praised the game's increased accessibility and less "sterile" gameplay compared to previous titles in the SimCity series, and Game Informer concluded that the changes to the gameplay were "inventive"...
- Lead Designer
Education
- Joseph P. Keefe Vocational high school (drawing, illustration, graphic design)
- Massachusetts College of ArtMassachusetts College of ArtMassachusetts College of Art and Design is a publicly-funded college of visual and applied art, founded in 1873. It is one of the oldest art schools, the only publicly-funded free-standing art school in the United States, and was the first art college in the United States to grant an artistic degree...
(sculpture)
Book Illustration
Beatrice illustrated Oscar Wilde's classic fairy tale, The Selfish Giant (Noteworthy Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0983003809).External links
- Chris Beatrice web site
- 3rd party interview discussing game design
- 3rd party interview discussing digital art
- Chris Beatrice profile at MobyGamesMobyGames-Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...
- Official site of The Selfish Giant book/cd
- Tutorial by Chris Beatrice to create the illustration called "Donkeyskin"
- Chris Beatrice Making of about the illustration "Advice From a Caterpillar"
- A 6 hours elapsed tutorial about The "Gnolls" illustration by Chris Beatrice