In 2006, Idigicon, who had previously published one of Dickie's games, Boxer's Story, contacted him again to make a version of his newest release, Wrestling Encore, for the British professional wrestling promotion One Pro Wrestling however, legal complications arose due to 1PW not having the video game license to the American professional wrestlers working for them. In that same year, he released his first complete game, Federation Online, a flash-based wrestling game. He moved to Manchester in 2001 to complete a Bachelor of Science in video games and computers at Salford University. The game took two weeks to complete and was posted on a wrestling website where it received 15,000 downloads and positive feedback, which inspired him to continue making video games and to make his own website in November 2000 to host his games. 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.
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