Who are you?

I've been writing computer games since the early 1980's. Starting off with a new TRS80-Color Computer, my Dad brought home - I've always wanted to present visual situations/puzzles that stimulate a users senses! I then migrated to the commerical sector, writing a series of games from 1988 to 1993 that included Stone Mist 1, Dragon's Shard, Terradyne (both DS and Terradyne had a series of quest packs published for them) and my favorite - Stone Mist 2. Stone Mist 2 got awesome reviews from everyone that wrote it up. It didn't get included in the top 10 shareware games of the year, Dragons Shard got that acknowledgement! But it was the game that I was most proud of. After that, I did some work for the Colorado Divison of Wildlife, in the form of a river ecosystem simulator. It was used by a number of elementary schools to teach kids that you shouldn't dump Drano into the streams because it may, just may, kill fish! After that I formed a company doing OS/2 games. Our first game was Master of the Empire. Needless to say after a disagreement with our publisher - it was eventually published in 1996.

After that fiasco, I went the pay for play route; working for Devils Thumb, VR1, Idol Minds, 2015, Inc and Blue Fang. The games I've worked on include: Mike Piazza's Strikezone, Axis and Allies, Hired Guns, Lost Continents, and Men of Valor (XBOX and PC), and the Master of the Empire series.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy what I've been cooking up.

Mike Ramsey.
January 2005