Nathan Mates' Videogames Page

I work as a videogame programmer. By way of some blatant plugs for products I'm working on or have worked on, my current employer is Total Immersion Software, Inc.. Previously, I worked at Pandemic Studios, on a series of titles including, but not limited to, their first and last shipped titles. A short summary of the games I've worked on is:

In all of the below, I was one of the team of programmers at the developer:

• Saboteur. Developer: Pandemic Studios. Publisher: Electronic Arts
• Mercenaries 2 - World In Flames. Playstation 3 (2008), Xbox 360 (2008), PC (2008). Developer: Pandemic Studios. Publisher: Electronic Arts
• Star Wars: Battlefront II- Playstation 2 (2005), XBox (2005), PC (2005). Developer: Pandemic Studios. Publisher: Lucasarts.
• Star Wars: Battlefront - Playstation 2 (2004), XBox (2004), PC (2004). Developer: Pandemic Studios. Publisher: Lucasarts.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Gamecube (2002), Playstation 2 (2002), XBox (2003). Developer: Pandemic Studios. Publisher: Lucasarts.
• Triple Play 2002 - PS2 (2002), XBox (2002). Developer: Pandemic Studios. Publisher: Electronic Arts.
• Battlezone II - Windows (1999-2000). Developer: Pandemic Studios. Publisher: Activision. I've also worked in my spare time from home to create some patches for BZ2, including the 1.2 and 1.3 patch series.
• Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling - Playstation 1 (1998), Windows (1998). Developer: Adrenalin Entertainment. Publisher: THQ
• Ten Pin Alley - Playstation 1 (1996), Windows (1997) Sega Saturn (1997). Developer: Adrenalin Entertainment. Publisher: ASC Games.

Extra items I've been involved with after some of the above have shipped

You can download the latest Battlezone II 1.3 patch from my website.

Tips for BZ2 Multiplayer

Battlezone 2 Scrap Management Guide

I'm a unix-using geek, and so I should have a .plan file. I do now, and made a webpage that's automatically built from it. See it here.

I've documented up the easter eggs, NPC CPU opponent tables, and PSX/Saturn diffs for Ten Pin Alley. You can view it here.

The best place to discuss Battlezone II is at http://bzforum.matesfamily.org/ . Go there for all sorts of technical questions, etc.

My previous employer was Adrenalin Entertainment, working on writing video games. The second title I worked on at Adrenalin was Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling, published by THQ. For PCs running Win95, DX5, 16MB Ram, and a P133 or better (HW 3D accelerator recommended), there is a demo on the PC Gamer (US) magazine CD for September 1998. Also, many download points for the PC demo are listed at http://www.3dfxmania.com/games/brunswickcircuitprobowling.shtml.

A PSX demo of Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling should be on one sampler disc, but I don't follow that information too closely, sorry. You can view the PC Gamer preview (of 9/9/98) here, THQ preview of the game here (PC) or here (PSX). This game has gotten 89% in the Jan 1998 PC Gamer Magazine, and a 'B+' rating from PC Games, with some online reviews here, here, and here.

My first game was porting Ten Pin Alley, a bowling game, to the Sega Saturn.You can also view ASC's Ten Pin Alley page. A few reviews were at http://www.saturnworld.com/thin/reviews/1795.html, http://www.sega-saturn.com/saturn/software/tpa.htm, and http://www.gamefan.com/saturn/Ten_Pin_Alley/reviewspreviews.htm but those sites are about as dead as the Saturn in the US market. (Other reviews to be linked in if I can find any)

I've documented up the easter eggs, NPC CPU opponent tables, and PSX/Saturn diffs for Ten Pin Alley. You can view it here.