Pete Cooke

British computer game designer (born 1956) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pete Cooke (born 1956) is a British computer games programmer, best known for his work published in the 1980s for the ZX Spectrum.

Career

His software often used a point and click GUI.[citation needed] As most Spectrum users did not own a mouse the pointer was manipulated by keyboard or joystick.

Cooke's game Tau Ceti featured a form of solid 3D graphics and was set on a planet with day and night cycles with dynamically drawn shadows. Micronaut One, released in 1987, was set inside futuristic biocomputers with the player controlling a microscopic craft attempting to clear the tunnels of an insect-like life form called Scrim. This game used fast-moving 3D graphics and featured an enemy that went through a realistic, though sped up, lifecycle, beginning each level as eggs and progressing to larvae and eventually adult Scrim which would then lay more eggs.[citation needed]

As well as these games, Cooke programmed the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions of Stunt Car Racer and also released a game for the 16-bit Amiga and Atari ST in 1990 called Tower of Babel.[citation needed]

He worked at Leicester College as an IT lecturer and he teaches students how to create computer games using Microsoft XNA.[citation needed] He has created and released games for Apple Devices (iOS), including Zenfit and Everything Must Go.[citation needed]

Games

  • Invincible Island (1983)[1]
  • The Inferno (1984)
  • Urban Upstart (1984)
  • UDG Generator (1984)
  • Maze Chase (1984)
  • Upper Gumtree (1985)
  • Ski Star 2000 (1985)
  • Juggernaut [ru] (1985)
  • Tau Ceti (1985)
  • Room 10 (1986)
  • Academy (1986)
  • Micronaut One (1987)
  • Brainstorm (1987)
  • Earthlight (1988)
  • Zolyx (1988)
  • A Whole New Ball Game (1989)
  • Stunt Car Racer – ZX Spectrum conversion of Geoff Crammond's game (1989)
  • Granny's Garden (1989)
  • Tower Of Babel (1990)
  • Grand Prix (1992)
  • Grand Prix 2 (1996)
  • Grand Prix 3 (2000)
  • Zenfit (iOS) (2012)
  • Everything Must Go (iOS) (2013) [2]

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