Beautiful Game Studio
Beautiful Games Studios, the team behind the latest Championship Manager games, are based in north London. The studio employs over 30+ avid CM and football fans with over 100 years cumulative development experience and 90+ published titles.
You've played the game, now is your chance to meet part of the team behind Championship Manager!.
Name: Alex Tait
Favourite Club: Tottenham Hotspurs
Job Title: Lead Logic Programmer
Job Description: Arranging meetings, attending meetings and writing up meetings. Sometimes I write code.
History: I got out of telecomms and into games about five years ago. I don't miss it.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Hair
Favourite Pastime: Going to the opera.
Name: Anthony Kyne
Favourite Club: Dartford F.C.
Job Title: Technical Designer
Job Description: Coming up with and designing features for each version of CM, giving the rest of my office the wisdom of my life experience (mainly gained from hard weekend sessions). I believe that this wisdom has aged Ollie and Fu considerably and Troy has had to take so much on board he has started losing his hair!! Also making sure I don’t have any meetings at the same time as Neighbours.
History: Started as a tester at Anco, the maker of the legendry Kick Off (one of the two games I always wanted to work on when I was at school) and Player Manager Series, became a programmer and designer after a few years and made some pretty decent games IMO, went on to start a company called Floodlit Software where I was lured away to work for BGS on CM (the other game I had always wanted to work on when I was at school).
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Confidence 100
Favourite Pastime: Football, Neighbours, Music and Drinking. Not necessarily in that order.
Name: Derek McAvoy
Favourite Club: Rangers
Job Title: Senior Researcher
Job Description: I am the senior researcher at BGS. As well as researching the world of football for the game, one of my main tasks is to coordinate and develop the BGS external research network.
History: I graduated with an honours degree in Information Management in 1998. That summer I moved from Scotland to London to work for an investment bank. I worked there for 5 years then joined BGS in the summer of 2003.
Highest champ man stat: Loyalty!
Favourite past time: I have had a season ticket at Ibrox for most of my life and still have one despite living and working in London! I travel back to see as many games as possible each season. I am a board member of the Rangers Supporters Trust.
Name: Ed Pechorro
Favourite Club: Arsenal, Benfica.
Job Title: Programmer
Job Description: Contibuting towards development of game-logic.
History: I was born about 30-odd years BC (Before-ChampMan), studied, worked in software-development and AI, moved into the games industry. Then a couple of years ago I joined David Rutter's squad of Eidosacticos.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Teamwork, Vision, Creativity and the lesser-known Modesty stat.
Favourite Pastime: Dreaming of World Cup glory.
Name: Ian Tomkins
Favourite Club: Tottenham Hotspur
Job Title: Lead Platform Programmer.
Job Description: Handle Localisation.
History: Worked at SmartDog for a while, leaving shortly before it went bust. My next adventure was at Silicon Dreams where I stayed for a little while longer before again, leaving shortly before that company went bust. I was due move to another company - but they went bust before I even started, and I have since ended up here. Things are looking up though.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Feinting - after too much excess.
Favourite Pastime: Making companies go bust.