{"id":1103,"date":"2025-11-02T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacecaptainsteve.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:49:06","slug":"scs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacecaptainsteve.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/scs\/","title":{"rendered":"About a Drawing Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Name: <strong>Steve Stamatiadis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Award winning video game director and artist with 20 years of industry experience. I briefly flirted with movies, TV and comics before settling in to a long successful career developing games. From cult classics like <strong>Halloween Harry<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Flight of the Amazon Queen<\/strong> through to hugely successful titles like the <strong>TY the Tasmanian Tiger<\/strong> series (which I co-created) and directing the PS2, PSP, Wii, &amp; Switch versions of <strong>Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with with of the coolest jobs on the planet I still love to spend my spare time creating new worlds and creating comics just for the fun of it. One of these comics, <strong>Blade Kitten<\/strong> I got to make into my dream game and it even got released by <strong>Atari<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve even provided voices for some of the characters in my games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My gameography includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Halloween Harry\/Alien Carnage<\/strong><\/td><td>PC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Flight of the Amazon Queen<\/strong><\/td><td>PC, Amiga<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Mike Stewart&#8217;s: Pro Bodyboarding<\/strong> PC<\/td><td>PC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>TY the Tasmanian Tiger<\/strong><\/td><td>PC, PS2, PS4, Xbox, Gamecube, Switch<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue<\/strong><\/td><td>PC, PS2, PS4, Xbox, Gamecube, GBA, Switch<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>TY the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan<\/strong><\/td><td>PC, PS2,Xbox, Gamecube, GBA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Star Wars: The Force Unleashed<\/strong> <\/td><td>PS2, PSP, Wii, Switch<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Blade Kitten<\/strong><\/td><td>PC,PS3,Xbox 360<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>TY the Tasmanian Tiger: Boomerang Blast<\/strong><\/td><td>iOS<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>TY the Tasmanian Tiger 4: Bush Rescue Returns<\/strong><\/td><td>PC,Switch<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Gunwale: Summer<\/strong><\/td><td>PC, Switch<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as serving as Creative Director on dozens of Krome Studio&#8217;s games since 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Steve Stamatiadis Award winning video game director and artist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-stuff"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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