Lee Wright (programmer)

Born Lee Alistair Wright
31 December 1970
United Kingdom Wales, UK
Other names Codan
Occupation programmer
Employer Bizarre Creations

Lee Wright (born in Cymau, Near Wrexham in North Wales on 31 December 1970) is a British computer/video game programmer. He was the co-founder of software houses Jester Interactive Limited and Checkmate Solutions Limited, and his recent works include eJay music sequencers for Empire Interactive Limited. He is now in senior management at Bizarre Creations.

Career

Lee's involvement in computing, computer demos and computer games began in the mid-1980s. As lead programmer for the demo group Jester Brothers International, he collaborated on a number of public domain animations, most notable of which was Fillet the Fish .

Lee's first commercial projects were in providing music playroutine coding for several Psygnosis games of the late 1980s and early 1990s, usually playing his brother Tim's musical compositions. (Lee Wright circa. 1990 in right hand side of this photo wearing Shadow of the Beast T-Shirt).

Spending many years working for Morgan Computing Limited, a commercial software house, he once again joined forces with his brother Tim to create Jester Interactive Limited in 1997. In his roles as Development Director and Lead Programmer, Lee was to play a pivotal role in managing the programming teams and developing all the core routines for Jester's MUSICtm products on PlayStation, PS2 and Game Boy Color.

While at Jester Interactive Lee worked on many incarnation of the MUSICtm series (as published by Codemasters plc.) the last being perhaps his most technically accomplished, where he was responsible for developing VEKTEKtm technology which allowed the PS2 to generate 64 audio channels (the PS2 generally has a maximum of 48 channels ). Wright finally departed Jester in 2003 to form Checkmate Solutions Limited with his brother Tim. At Checkmate he developed three titles under the eJay software brand for Empire Interactive until Checkmate closed in 2005, whereupon Lee went to work full-time at Bizarre Creations.

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