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Michael Gooch

Michael
Gooch

Game Designer, Scripter, and Writing Dabbler currently based out of Quebec, Canada.

Work History

  • 2016

    2015 - 2016 Michael released his first finished game "Tale of the Eclipse" onto Kongregate. He then started building Gokstad and attended GDC for the first time.

  • 2018

    2017 - 2018 After releasing Gokstad he moved to Montreal, Quebec. He started his career in QA at Square-Enix working on Life is Strange: Before the Storm and Just Cause 4.

  • 2020

    2019 - 2020 He then began development for "On The Flip Side" at the start of 2019. He helped in the task of porting the Tomb Raider Trilogy to Stadia and was promoted to Scripting Senior on Marvels Avengers. On The Flip Side then launched in Q1 of 2020 under Rusted Delusion Studios, but the world got a bit awkward shortly after and told everyone to go home.

  • 2021

    2020 - 2021 After making games play themselves with the magic of automation for most of 2020, he decided to close out the chapter in his QA career start a new one working at Larian Studios as a Gameplay Scripter.

  • 2024

    2021 - Current He had quite enough basking in the critical acclaim of Baldur's Gate 3, so soldier on he must towards the next project at Larian.