Brian Colin
Game developer
Class of 2019 Inductee
Brian Colin is a video-game designer, artist and animator.
Among his best-known works are the coin-operated arcade games Rampage, Arch Rivals and Rampage: World Tour as well as General Chaos for the Sega Genesis game console.
He is the CEO of Game Refuge, an independent video-game design and development studio with offices in Downers Grove, Illinois.
Colin joined Bally/Midway as an artist and animator during the golden age of arcade video games. His first project was creating new character animation for the arcade game Discs of Tron, for which he was given on screen credit. Between 1982 and 1984, he created in-game raster graphics and animation for numerous Bally/Midway arcade games, including Kozmik Krooz’r, Spy Hunter and Zwackery, the latter being the first game for which Colin was credited as a game designer.
Colin continued to work with other Bally/Midway programmers on games like Max RPM and Xenophobe.
Colin left Williams/Bally/Midway to form the game development studio Game Refuge with Jeff Nauman in 1992. Starting with General Chaos in 1993, Colin has conceived and designed over 45 different video games under the Game Refuge brand, including the arcade games Rampage World Tour and Star Trek: Voyager. He has also branched out into video slot machine design, advergaming and touchscreen gaming. He continues to produce games for PCs and mobile platforms as the CEO of Game Refuge.
Brian regularly attends local gaming conventions providing memorabilia and autographs.
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Colin’s animated short film In Search of a Plot (1977) earned awards at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Melbourne International Amateur Film Festival, the Datsun/Playboy FOCUS International Film Festival, the National Student and Amateur Filmmakers’ Festival of Comedy and CINE (Council on International Non Theatrical Events).
Colin is currently named as an inventor on three United States Patents related to the gaming industry.
Brian Colin acceptance speech at IVGHOF 2019:
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