Brad Muir | |
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Occupation(s) | Game designer, programmer |
Brad Muir is an American computer game designer and programmer. He was a designer on Brütal Legend, [1] and the project leader of Iron Brigade, [2] Brazen, [3] and Massive Chalice. [4]
Brad Muir started his career as a programmer at Outrage Entertainment and as a gameplay programmer at Raven Software. He joined Double Fine Productions as a programmer on Psychonauts. [5] He was then the game designer on Double Fine's next game, Brütal Legend, [6] before becoming the project lead on Iron Brigade. [7] His next role as project lead would be on Brazen, the 2011 prototype was included as a bonus as part of Double Fine's public two week prototype session, known as Amnesia Fortnight 2012. [8] He then was the project leader on Massive Chalice, a tactical strategy game that was crowd funded through Kickstarter in 2013. [9] In December 2015, he left Double Fine Productions and joined Valve. [10]
Brütal Legend, for which Muir was the lead multiplayer designer, won the "Best Strategy/Simulation Game" award in the 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. [11]