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Stephen Kick

aka: Steve Kick
Moby ID: 367440

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Stephen Kick is an American gamer developer who earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Game Art & Design at the Art Institute of California: San Francisco in 2007 where he was awarded "Best Portfolio" for his graduating class. Specializing in character art Stephen was hired to help indie studio Paleo Entertainment finish development of Merchants of Brooklyn one of the first non-Crytek games powered by the CryEngine.

Stephen was then hired by Sony Online Entertainment Inc. to create characters for it's latest game, Free Realms followed by Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures and finally PlanetSide 2. Stephen left SOE in 2012 and formed Night Dive Studios, a game publisher that specializes in finding classic video games to re-release on GOG and Steam with optimizations and updates allowing them to be played on newer hardware and operating systems. In February 2013 Night Dive Studios re-released System Shock 2 on GOG, and then on Steam a few months later. To date Night Dive Studios has re-released over 90 classic games on Steam.

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Doom + Doom II (2024, Windows) Chief Executive Officer
Star Wars: Dark Forces - Remaster (2024, Windows) Chief Executive Officer
Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion - Remastered (2023, PlayStation 4) Chief Executive Officer
Quake II (2023, Windows) Chief Executive Officer
Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition (2023, Windows) Chief Executive Officer
System Shock (2023, Windows) Director
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition (2022, Windows) Chief Executive Officer
PowerSlave: Exhumed (2022, Windows) Chief Executive Officer
Quake (2021, Windows) Chief Executive Officer
Shadow Man: Remastered (2021, Windows) Chief Executive Officer
Doom 64 (2020, Windows) Chief Executive Officer
Blood: Fresh Supply (2019, Windows) CEO
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (2018, Linux) CEO
Forsaken: Remastered (2018, Windows) CEO
Turok (2015, Windows) CEO
System Shock: Enhanced Edition (2015, Windows) Producer
Noctropolis (2015, Windows) Executive Producer
Spirits of Xanadu (2015, Windows) Special Thanks
The Original Strife: Veteran Edition (2014, Windows) Producer
PlanetSide 2 (2012, Windows) Additional Art

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