Clay Dreslough
Encyclopedia
Clay Dreslough is the creator of the Baseball Mogul
and Football Mogul
computer sports games, and is the co-founder and President of Sports Mogul, Inc.
He was born in Boston
, Massachusetts
(USA) in 1970, and graduated from Wesleyan University
in 1993.
series, Pennant Fever, Microsoft Baseball, Baseball Mogul
, Baseball Mogul Online, Football Mogul
, and MLB Slugfest Loaded. His production credits include NBA: Phenom and MLB: Road To The Show. Clay has been designing and programming sports video and computer games since 1987. According to MobyGames
, Clay has more published baseball and football titles than any other member of the game industry. As a successful computer game developer and publisher, Dreslough is rare in his outspoken stance against digital rights management
and other forms of copy protection
.
According to Moby Games, Dreslough has been credited as a programmer
, designer
or video game producer on more published computer game titles (27) than any other member of the industry.
. His contributions to baseball research include an article on the fluctuating effectiveness (aka "streakiness") of major league pitchers, and the creation of a 'DICE' (Defense-Independent Component ERA), a Defense-Independent Pitching Stat. Dreslough was the first baseball researcher to invent and publish a statistic used to measure defense-independent pitching performance.
called 'Pennant Race' that was distributed as shareware
.
His wife, Dee Dreslough, is a writer and digital artist who has released some of her works under an open license. She is the creator of the fictional world of Dimar, featuring dragon
-like creatures and their interactions with humans and other sentient species. The name Dreslough is a unique name, created by combining the former surnames Dresser and McLoughlin.
Baseball Mogul
Baseball Mogul is a series of career baseball management computer games created by game designer Clay Dreslough. The product was first published in 1997. The thirteenth and latest installment, Baseball Mogul 2012, was released March 18, 2011. A proprietary database, included with the game, permits...
and Football Mogul
Football Mogul
Football Mogul is a sports simulation game that allows a player to play the owner, head coach or general manager of an NFL franchise. The most recent version, Football Mogul 2011, was released on August 8, 2010....
computer sports games, and is the co-founder and President of Sports Mogul, Inc.
Sports Mogul
Sports Mogul Inc. is a United States computer game developer and publisher with 5 employees, founded in 1997 by Clay Dreslough. They are the creators of Baseball Mogul, Football Mogul and Baseball Mogul Online...
He was born in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
(USA) in 1970, and graduated from Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...
in 1993.
Professional life
Dreslough's design and programming credits include the Tony La Russa BaseballTony La Russa Baseball
Tony La Russa Baseball is a baseball computer and video game console sports game series , designed by Don Daglow, Michael Breen, Mark Buchignani, David Bunnett and Hudson Piehl and developed by Stormfront Studios. The game appeared on Commodore 64, PC, and Sega Genesis, and different versions were...
series, Pennant Fever, Microsoft Baseball, Baseball Mogul
Baseball Mogul
Baseball Mogul is a series of career baseball management computer games created by game designer Clay Dreslough. The product was first published in 1997. The thirteenth and latest installment, Baseball Mogul 2012, was released March 18, 2011. A proprietary database, included with the game, permits...
, Baseball Mogul Online, Football Mogul
Football Mogul
Football Mogul is a sports simulation game that allows a player to play the owner, head coach or general manager of an NFL franchise. The most recent version, Football Mogul 2011, was released on August 8, 2010....
, and MLB Slugfest Loaded. His production credits include NBA: Phenom and MLB: Road To The Show. Clay has been designing and programming sports video and computer games since 1987. According to MobyGames
MobyGames
-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...
, Clay has more published baseball and football titles than any other member of the game industry. As a successful computer game developer and publisher, Dreslough is rare in his outspoken stance against digital rights management
Digital rights management
Digital rights management is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that...
and other forms of copy protection
Copy protection
Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy obstruction, copy prevention and copy restriction, refer to techniques used for preventing the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media, usually for copyright reasons.- Terminology :Media corporations have always used the term...
.
According to Moby Games, Dreslough has been credited as a programmer
Programmer
A programmer, computer programmer or coder is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. One who practices or professes a formal approach to...
, designer
Game design
Game design, a subset of game development, is the process of designing the content and rules of a game in the pre-production stage and design of gameplay, environment, storyline, and characters during production stage. The term is also used to describe both the game design embodied in a game as...
or video game producer on more published computer game titles (27) than any other member of the industry.
Baseball research
Clay Dreslough is a member of 'SABR', the Society for American Baseball ResearchSociety for American Baseball Research
The Society for American Baseball Research was established in Cooperstown, New York, in August 1971 by Bob Davids of Washington, D.C. The Society's mission is to foster the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball, while generating interest in the game...
. His contributions to baseball research include an article on the fluctuating effectiveness (aka "streakiness") of major league pitchers, and the creation of a 'DICE' (Defense-Independent Component ERA), a Defense-Independent Pitching Stat. Dreslough was the first baseball researcher to invent and publish a statistic used to measure defense-independent pitching performance.
Personal life
Dreslough created his first baseball simulation game in 1976, at the age of 5. It used 3 six-sided dice to determine the batting results for each of 9 different types of players. In high school, Dreslough created a computer simulation for DOSDOS
DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...
called 'Pennant Race' that was distributed as shareware
Shareware
The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...
.
His wife, Dee Dreslough, is a writer and digital artist who has released some of her works under an open license. She is the creator of the fictional world of Dimar, featuring dragon
Dragon
A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern...
-like creatures and their interactions with humans and other sentient species. The name Dreslough is a unique name, created by combining the former surnames Dresser and McLoughlin.