2020 in Games – Brett's Footnotes¹: Rebirth!

Shenmue (January)
Civ III (February)
Persona 5 (February)
Prey (March)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (March)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (March)
Chrono Trigger (April)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (May)
Republic Commando (June)
Picross S (June)
Kirby’s Epic Yarn (June)
Epic Mickey (June)
Picross S2 (June)
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (June)
SW Republic Commando (July)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (August)
Populous (October)
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (November)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (December)
Torchlight II (December)

Who’s this guy?

Hi, I'm Brett Douville, long time video game developer and even longer time video game player, though when I started we called them computer games and there wasn't even a monitor.

Times have changed.

You may know me from games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3 or 4, or going further back, from my LucasArts days, when I led programming teams on Star Wars: Republic Commando and Jedi Starfighter, after being a gameplay programmer on the original Star Wars: Starfighter. Most recently I shipped Tacoma. I am the Technical Director for Twin Suns Corp, which is letting me work again with a number of colleagues from my past, and it's fantastic.

You can find me streaming older games on Twitch, some in connection with the podcast I host with Tim Longo (who runs Twin Suns Corp, creatively, and with whom I worked on all three of my LucasArts games). Some of them I'm just playing for fun. The podcast is Dev Game Club and we post weekly episodes, doing deep dives over several episodes about classic games and how they've influenced us in the present.