Patrick Buckland

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Patrick Buckland
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Blackheath Hospital, London
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Carmageddon
Duels of the Planeswalkers
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Patrick Buckland is a British video game programmer, designer and chief executive officer of Stainless Games, which he co-founded with Neil Barnden in 1994.

Career

Buckland is a video games pioneer, having been in the industry since 1982.[1]

Crystal Quest

In 1985 Buckland developed one of the first Macintosh games, the shareware title Crystal Raider. A year after the game's release, Buckland decided to work on a follow-up, Crystal Quest, which would take the gameplay of its predecessor, and add new features. The game ended up ported to numerous other platforms, including the Apple IIgs, Amiga, Game Boy, Palm and much later, PC and Xbox 360.

Stainless Software

In 1993, Along with Neil Barnden, Buckland started up Stainless Software "in order to concentrate on games". Among their first clients was Argonaut Games, who contracted the team to work on 3D engine development. Two years later, in 1995, the company landed their first games contract, with British publisher SCi, after pitching a title called "3D Destruction Derby" in 1994. Originally, the game was intended by the publisher to be a licensed Mad Max title, but SCi couldn't get their hands on the licence. Next, in anticipation of a sequel to the cult 1975 film Death Race 2000, the game was titled Death Race 2020.

The film sequel fell through, and it was decided to just do it without the license. Carmageddon was released in mid 1997 – using the BRender engine – and immediately topped the UK games charts, with other charts worldwide following suit soon after.

VIS entertainment

In 1999 the company was absorbed into Scottish based developer VIS Entertainment. Most notable among the many projects that Buckland worked on as part of VIS was 2001's State of Emergency, which saw him attached to the game midway through development as executive director and design consultant. In 2001 a rally project at VIS for Electronic Arts was cancelled, and VIS began restructuring itself. As part of this process, Patrick Buckland spun-off Stainless Games as an independent company again, which was financed by Les Edgar, founder of Bullfrog and ex-chairman of VIS.

Stainless Games

Stainless Games remains independent to this day, and is based in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The company has released a number of titles, including a port of Crystal Quest, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm, Warlords, Tempest, Battlezone, Asteroids, Missile Command, Centipede & Millipede, Novadrome, RISK: Factions, Carmageddon: Max Damage and most notable Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers.

He was wholly or partly responsible for the production of videogames such as Crystal Quest, Carmageddon, Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now, Carmageddon: Reincarnation and Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers. He also produced a range of non-game software over the years, including AME, a security system used by (amongst others) the CIA and NASA, Crash Barrier, a crash recovery utility for the Macintosh, a Teletext authoring system, CAD software for the marine industry, retail packaging CAD systems, LeLisp for the French government, Structured BASIC or the Apple // and various other software packages.

Games

Games and other major products produced by or including code written by Buckland include

The above list excludes a number of cancelled projects (some of which were major and near completion), minor contract work, and confidential projects.

Crystal Quest received a number of awards when released on the Mac in 1987, as did Carmageddon and Carmageddon II in 1997 and 1998 respectively. Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers broke all sales records on the XBLA platform when it was released in June 2009, although these records were broken again by other titles shortly afterward.

Other interests

In 2013, Buckland was one of a consortium of British individuals who bought the rights back to the sports car manufacturer TVR, from Nikolay Smolensky.[4][5] The new company, TVR Manufacturing Ltd, is already taking deposits for an all-new vehicle developed in conjunction with Gordon Murray and Cosworth.[6]

Personal life

He was born in London and moved to the Isle of Wight at the age of 2. Buckland still lives on the Isle of Wight with his wife and two children and is a direct descendant of renowned geologist/palaeontologist William Buckland and his son, renowned zoologist Frank Buckland.[7]

Buckland's father, John Buckland, was a composer and the protege of Ralph Vaughan Williams.[8]

Awards

Stainless Games was awarded The King's Awards for Enterprise in 2024, which was received by Buckland from Susie Sheldon, Lord-lieutenant of the Isle of Wight.[9]

Patrick Buckland won the Outstanding Individual of Year award at the TIGA awards in 2024 in recognition of his 30 years contribution to the games industry at the head of Stainless.[10]

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Crystal Quest to Carmageddon With Patrick Buckland - The Retro Hour EP105". YouTube. 19 January 2018.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Classic PC Game: Carmageddon | Total PC Gaming Magazine". Pcgamer. Totalpcgaming.com. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Patrick Buckland". MobyGames. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sam Philip (7 June 2013). "TVR's back!". BBC. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."TVR". TVR.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Reborn TVR plans new sports car family for 2017". Autocar. Archived from the original on 7 June 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."IGN: Stainless Games". Games.ign.com. Archived from the original on 15 April 2002. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."RVW's Letters - filtered by reference to 'Buckland'".
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Isle of Wight video game developer receives King's Award". 18 August 2024.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Patrick Wins at TIGA Awards 2024". 29 November 2024.

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