The game had the player play as one of the Hardy Boyz, who were wrestlers in the WWF (later renamed the WWE). ĭickie released his first game, Hardy Boyz Stunt Challenge, in August 2000. He purchased it from his local Woolworths branch, and spent the summer of 2000 learning it from the examples. Career PC game development (2000–2011) ĭickie began creating his first game after he stumbled across a copy of DIV Game Studio, a programming language that promised to make game development easy. ĭickie also tinkered with Deluxe Paint on his Commodore Amiga until he acquired a PC in 1998, which signaled the beginning of his game development career. Some of his works were influenced by games he played as a child, including WWF No Mercy, Super Fire Pro Wrestling and WWF WrestleFest. He became interested in developing games at an early age, often sketching out ideas for games. His parents worked on a small newsstand, where he stayed while they worked, and boredom drove him to express his creativity by producing makeshift toys for himself with the materials available there. Mat Dickie was born in Brigg, North Lincolnshire in 1980/1981.

2.2 Mobile and console game development (2011 – present).

The indie and low budget nature of Dickie's games have often contributed to their popularity, leading to Dickie describing himself as being 'single-handedly responsible for the worst games to ever be enjoyed by millions of people.' He has mentioned that the low resolution and low poly graphics in his games have allowed for better performance, in turn enabling him 'to push a lot of boundaries'. Many of Dickie's games are infamous for their awkward controls and poor graphics. This project later emerged as Wrestling Empire, which was released in early 2021. In 2019, Dickie confirmed that a new wrestling project was in development for the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. However, he once again retired from full-time game development in 2018.

He came out of retirement in late 2011 and transitioned to mobile game development, which led to the release of Wrestling Revolution in 2012.

ĭickie began his game development career in 2000 with his first PC game, going on to retire in 2009 to become an educator. The game later went on to surpass 10 million downloads and its sequel, Wrestling Revolution 3D, went on to compete with WWE 2K games on the mobile and PC market. He is most notable for his indie professional wrestling games, such as Wrestling Revolution for iOS and Android devices, which received over 100,000 downloads two months after its launch in 2012. Mat Dickie (born 1980/1981) is an English indie video game designer, developer and author who releases games under the name MDickie.

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