Line #46 Creator/CliffBleszinski


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4	Clifford Bleszinski (formerly known as "[=CliffyB=]" and "Grand Master Ice Shaft") is a game designer born on 1975 at Boston, Massachussets.
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6	He started writing games at the age of 15, and presented his second game, ''VideoGame/DareToDream'' to Creator/EpicGames's CEO Tim Sweeney, which landed him a job on the company. He then proceeded to work on other games from the company, including the ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' and ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' franchises as lead designer.
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8	After his departure from Epic due to CreativeDifferences, he co-founded his own development studio, Boss Key Productions, with which he developed ''VideoGame/LawBreakers''. After the commercial failure of the latter and another video game, he retired from video game development.
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10	!! Videogames he was involved with
11	* ''The Palace Of Deceit'' (1991)
12	* ''VideoGame/DareToDream'' (1992)
13	* ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'' series:
14	** ''Jazz Jackrabbit'' (1994)
15	** ''Jazz Jackrabbit 2'' (1998)
16	* ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' series:
17	** ''VideoGame/UnrealI'' (1998)
18	** ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' (1999)
19	** ''VideoGame/UnrealIITheAwakening'' (2001)
20	** ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2003'' (2002)
21	** ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'' (2004)
22	** ''VideoGame/UnrealChampionship2TheLiandriConflict'' (2005)
23	** ''VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII'' (2007)
24	* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' series:
25	** ''Gears of War'' (2006)
26	** ''Gears of War II'' (2008)
27	** ''Gears of War III'' (2011)
28	* ''VideoGame/ShadowComplex'' (2009)
29	* ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' (2011)
30	* ''VideoGame/LawBreakers'' (2017)
31	* ''Radical Heights'' (cancelled)
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33	!!Other works
34	* ''Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games'' (2022, literature)
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36	!! Tropes related to his works:
37	* ApprovalOfGod:
38	** During his stint as the lead designer of the ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' franchise, he had his own site, [[https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/CliffyB%27s_Ownage "CliffyB's Ownage"]], where he chose what he considered "the cream of the crop from the Unreal Community", the best maps and mods from all games between ''VideoGame/UnrealI'' and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004''.
39	** He also loved a recreation of ''VideoGame/UnrealI''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muOLx1tPLMI "NyLeve's Falls" level in 3dsMax]].
40	* TheCameo: Appears in ''WebVideo/Mega64'' in a skit with Creator/YuSuzuki where the latter describes the ending of ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}''.
41	* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Quoted by him as the reason why there are no ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' games after the first on the PC.
42	* EasterEgg: There are several eggs that feature an image of him:
43	** ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'': In the level DM-Codex, there's a secret room with a picture of him and the caption [[Music/TheOffspring "Pretty Fly... For a White Guy"]].
44	** ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2003'' and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'': The level DM-Asbestos has a complicated egg that reveals an image of him in one of the central arenas.
45	** In ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'', some levels (especially the urban-themed such as [=AS-FallenCity=] and ONS-Urban) have a billboard called "Bleszinski Blvd". He also appears in the level [=AS-BP2-Outback=] of ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004''[='=]s ''Mega Pack/Bonus Pack 2'' DLC as the "Employee of the month" of the pub where the attackers start.
46	* SincerestFormOfFlattery:
47	** [[https://twitter.com/therealcliffyb/status/1512511948797194246 He proclaimed that]] ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' inspired ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit''.
48	** He admitted once in an interview that the idea for ''Gears of War'' (which started life as a game called ''Unreal Warfare'') came from the games ''VideoGame/KillSwitch'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' and ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.

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