American McGee

American McGee is a best known for his work at id Software on Doom II, Quake, and ', as well as the development of ' with Rogue Entertainment. After meeting John Carmack by living in the same apartment complex and sharing his interest in automobiles and game design, he was hired at id as tech support. He was later promoted to level designer. He worked at id Software until, when he was fired by John for apparently not meeting his expectations.

Biography
Once, when asked where he got his unusual name, he answered, "My mom smoked pot. She was a hippie. I'm not sure how else to put that." On his website, American had this to say of the matter: "She claims a woman she knew in college, who named her daughter 'America', inspired the name. She also tells me that she was thinking of naming me 'Obnard'. She was and always has been a very eccentric and creative person."

McGee began his career at id Software. He was a level designer and part of the programming staff for such games as Doom, Doom II, Quake, and Quake II. In 1998, he moved to Electronic Arts, where he worked as a consultant on many projects and also created his own game, American McGee's Alice. After finishing Alice, he left Electronic Arts and founded his own company, The Mauretania Import Export Company.

In 2006, McGee backed the Nintendo Wii as the "only truly next-gen console.

McGee has produced the games Scrapland, American McGee's Grimm and American McGee's Bad Day L.A.. Another game McGee was producing, American McGee's Oz, was put on hold, which McGee attributed to a lack of interest at game publishing houses for new ideas and products without established market names. McGee attempted to sell the game as a film before actually finishing it.

His stated mission is "to create a unified production method for story telling across the interactive and film industries" and of himself, he says, "I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked."

More recently, McGee's expanded to include another brand, Spicy Pony, to produce digital mobile media games for the iPhone platform. On December 17, 2010 McGee's old company The Mauretania Import Export Company was dissolved and all intellectual property was transferred to Spicy Horse.

In 2013 he opened a for a new game, American McGee's OZombie, however due to slow/lackluster funding the project was cancelled. Another Kickstarter for a project called , a planned series of short films leading to a theatrical film, was announced a few days later. This reached its goal on August 4, 2013, and was officially confirmed.

As of 2012, American was focusing on free-to-play games for mobile devices with BigHead Bash, Akaneiro, and Crazy Fairies.

Doom/Ultimate Doom

 * E4M1: Hell Beneath
 * E4M4: Unruly Evil

Doom II

 * MAP02: Underhalls
 * MAP03: The Gantlet
 * MAP04: The Focus
 * MAP05: The Waste Tunnels
 * MAP06: The Crusher
 * MAP07: Dead Simple
 * MAP14: The Inmost Dens
 * MAP22: The Catacombs

Jaguar Doom
Most of the Jaguar Doom maps are conversions to the much more stringent limits of the Atari Jaguar port of original maps by John Romero, Tom Hall, and Sandy Petersen, though Tower of Babel and Hell Keep are entirely new maps instead of conversions of their original namesakes.
 * MAP01: Hangar (John Romero)
 * MAP02: Plant (John Romero)
 * MAP03: Toxin Refinery (Tom Hall, John Romero)
 * MAP04: Command Control (Tom Hall, John Romero)
 * MAP05: Phobos Lab (John Romero)
 * MAP06: Central Processing (John Romero)
 * MAP07: Computer Station (John Romero)
 * MAP08: Phobos Anomaly (Tom Hall, Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP09: Deimos Anomaly (Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP10: Containment Area (Tom Hall, Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP11: Refinery (Tom Hall, Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP12: Deimos Lab (Tom Hall, Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP13: Command Center (Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP14: Halls of the Damned (Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP15: Spawning Vats (Tom Hall, Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP16: Tower of Babel
 * MAP17: Hell Keep
 * MAP18: Pandemonium (Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP19: House of Pain (Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP20: Unholy Cathedral (Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP21: Mt. Erebus (Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP22: Limbo (Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP23: Dis (Sandy Petersen)
 * MAP24: Military Base (John Romero)

Doom II add-on levels

 * Id Map01

Heretic

 * E6M3

External link

 * Official website
 * The Mauretania Import Export Company
 * MobyGames' entry on McGee