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- Gregg Mayles ist ein englischer Videospieldesigner und Creative Director des Videospielherstellers Rare.
- Gregory Ashley Mayles, better known as Gregg Mayles, is a British video game designer currently working for video game company Rare as Creative Director. He is one of the oldest members of company, working there since 1990. Mayles began his career as designer of Donkey Kong Country series, and was one of creators of character Diddy Kong. After his work on DKC, he came up with idea about action-adventure game influenced by his recent work on the series. The project was greenlit for release first on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and then on the Nintendo 64. Codenamed Project Dream, the game was about the boy who went up on an magical adventure at the pirate island. The concept was scrapped, and hero was changed to bear based on one from Diddy Kong Racing with a backpack, with latter winnowed by Mayles's trip to Japan. There went the critically acclaimed Banjo-Kazooie series. After the success of Banjo-Kazooie Mayles did additional design on Donkey Kong 64, which was based on concept of Mayles's project. Then, Mayles directed the long-awaited sequel, Banjo-Tooie, which was even more acclaimed than its predecessor. After Banjo-Tooie, Mayles did design on Conker's Bad Fur Day and Star Fox Adventures. Mayles directed the design of 2003 game Grabbed by the Ghoulies, which was lukewarmly reviewed by press. Then he worked on some other projects before playing a key role in creating the game Viva Piñata. It first came to life as an idea from Tim Stamper, and then it resulted to full game influenced by Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon series. It was released in 2006 and was well-received. Mayles also took part in designing its sequel, Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise. In 2007, Tim and Chris Stamper left Rare to "pursue other opportunities", and Mark Betteridge along with Mayles replaced them as Studio Director and Creative Director, respectively. In 2006, Mayles decided to come back to roots, and started the new project about Banjo-Kazooie with new detail: car building. It was announced at X06, and was titled Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. The game was released in 2008, but was received by press more coldly than first games. After Nuts & Bolts, Mayles did work on Xbox 360 version of Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing and on recent release Kinect Sports. Mayles also donates money for poor children. He started a "Very Purple Marathon" in April 2009. The marathon was supported by Rare itself, donating 2,110 euros. Mayles also posted comments on website The Rare Witch Project as "Ghouly Boy". His younger brother is an artist Steve Mayles (b. 1974), who also works for Rare.
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