Chad Jasper

• • Name: Chad Jasper

  • Notable creations and work: ExciteBots, ExciteTrucks, ExciteBike, Initial D: Mountain Vengeance, Hot Rod 1: American Street Drag, Hot Rod 2: Garage to Glory, Midnight Outlaw: Midnight Edition, Tricked n' Tuned, Spotlight Fever, The Oregon Trail 3.

Biographical Summary

Chad graduated from an art school in 1995 with a BFA in illustration. Since then he has done much work as an illustrator and has worked on flash animations, comic books, cartoons and 2D educational software and 3D modeling and textures for video games on the Wii and PC (since 2001). He currently works at Monster Games creating Wii titles.

Work

Chad works mainly with textures in the games that he works on and is also a 3D modeler. He is mainly interested in racing type games as seen in his extensive list of titles, all of them being racing titles except for The Oregon Trail 3. Apart from this there is not much information on him out there.

Excite Games Series (ExciteTrucks, ExciteBike, ExciteBots)

He has worked on many of the Excite game series. His latest games being on the Wii. He mostly works on 3D models for the games along with many of the textures that are used.

Hot Rod 1: American Street Drag & Hot Rod 2: Garage to Glory

Many of the models and textures in the Hot Rod games were created by Chad Jasper. He is heavily influenced by cars and racing, which is why he probably chooses to work on this genre of games.

Tricked N' Tuned

Tricked N' Tuned was another racing game where he worked on the 3D modeling of the cars and the textures that went along with them. This was one of the few PC games he worked on.

Midnight Outlaw: Nitro Edition

Another game released for the PC, he also worked on most of the models and textures of the cars in this game.

References

• • http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,145095/

  • http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/data/586208.html