Phil Fish

Quick Facts

Full Name	Phil Fish
Occupation	Game Designer
Date Of Birth	Nov 1, 1984(1984-11-01)
Age	40
Birthplace	Montreal
Country	Canada
Birth City	Montreal
Horoscope	Scorpio

Phil Fish Biography

Phil Fish is one of the most popular and richest Game Designer who was born on November 1, 1984 in Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Independent video game designer who reached the public eye through the 2012 documentary Indie Game: The Movie and for his platform game Fez, released by his own company Polytron Corporation. In July 2013 he announced that he was quitting the industry over long-time mistreatment by the gaming world in general.

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Philippe Poisson (born 1984), better known as Phil Fish, is a French-Canadian former indie game designer best known for his work on the 2012 platform game Fez. He was born and raised in Quebec, where his experiences with Nintendo games in his youth would later influence his game design. He studied game design at the Montreal National Animation and Design Centre, and worked at Ubisoft and Artificial Mind and Movement before starting Polytron in 2008.

Fish is a founding member of Kokoromi, a group that designs and promotes experimental video games. His November 2006 Arcadia Festival event, GAMMA 01 Audio Feed, featured games that incorporated live sound. Fish planned a similar event, GAMMA 256, for 2007, and a third event, GAMMA 3D, for November 2008 in Montreal. Fish was invited to present a lecture on GAMMA 01 at the 2007 Game Developers Conference. He also wrote a review of the 1999 Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver in the 2007 book Space Time Play: Synergies Between Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: the Next Level. Additionally, Fish has been characterized by Sean Hollister of The Verge as “notorious for voicing angry, controversial opinions about the state of video games”.

His given name is Philippe Poisson and he was born and raised in Montreal. After quitting video game design, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee.

Phil Fish Net Worth

Phil Fish is one of the richest Game Designer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Phil Fish 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He played a lot of Nintendo games while growing up and graduated from 2004 the National Animation and Design Centre in Montreal in 2004. In 2006 his school awarded him the Artificial Mind and Movement Award for Best Cut-Scene and he was hired to design the tie-in games for the 2007 film The Golden Compass. He then co-founded indie game design conglomerate Kokoromi. In 2008 he created the idea for Fez and founded Polytron Corporation.

His decision to quit the gaming industry came when a video game journalist called Marcus Beer trashed him and his game on his show. He exploded at the host on Twitter and the fight escalated quickly and he announced his withdrawal from the industry. In July 2014 he announced that Polytron’s new business venture would endeavor to help indie games get off the ground.

Phil Fish was born Philippe Poisson in Montreal in 1984. He was raised in Quebec, where his parents shared their interest in art and gaming with him. Fish’s father translated The Legend of Zelda into French so the two could play together. Fish credits these memories as formative, and later cited their influence on Fez. He graduated from the 2004 Design and Digital Art for Video Games program at the Montreal NAD (National Animation and Design Centre).

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Fish and Fez were featured prominently in the 2012 documentary Indie Game: The Movie, through which Fish received celebrity unusual for game developers. The film chronicles the stories of several indie developers at various stages of their games’ development cycles, and Fish is shown preparing for Fez’s booth at PAX East in March 2011. The film presents Fish amidst a legal dispute with a former business partner that jeopardizes the game’s release. The ex-partner, Jason DeGroot (a musician who contributed to the game), is portrayed negatively and is not shown on-screen. The film also tracks Fish’s personal and emotional investment in the game. Eurogamer wrote that the scene where Fish resolves to kill himself if he does not release his game is “the film’s most startling moment”. Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote that Fish is portrayed as melodramatic, existential, theatrical, and neurotic in contrast with the other developers shown in the film, which would exacerbate his outspoken public perception. Game Informer called Fish the film’s “most memorable developer”.

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A Fez sequel was announced as “one more thing” at end of the Horizon indie game press conference during the June 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo. A Twitter argument between Fish and GameTrailers journalist Marcus Beer a month later culminated in the project’s cancellation and Fish’s exit from the industry. In an episode of his show Invisible Walls, Beer had criticized Fish’s recent response to questions about Microsoft’s Xbox One self-publishing policy change. On Twitter, Fish condemned the industry for its negativity before his final tweet announced the cancellation and his leave. The news came as a surprise to the rest of Polytron, which has not commented on upcoming projects other than ports since the sequel’s cancellation. Polygon listed Fish in their top 50 newsmakers of 2013 for the social power of his “caustic use of Twitter”.

What happened with Phil Fish?

Following an online argument and doxxing, Fish publicly announced his exit from game development twice over the next two years, citing long-term mistreatment by the industry.

Why is Phil Fish controversial?

Phil Fish, the creator of celebrated indie video game Fez, is notorious for voicing angry, controversial opinions about the state of video games and their development. Today, however, he seems to have ragequit on the entire video gaming community, and has taken the sequel to Fez down with him.

Why did Fez 2 Cancelled?

Fish then announced via Twitter a month later that Fez 2 was cancelled, with Polytron officially confirming the end of its development shortly after. Fish explained that his decision to end the production of Fez 2 was attributed to his desire to exit the games industry due to the abuse he has received.

What happened to the developer of Fez?

It’s impossible to know exactly why Fish decided to quit developing games altogether , but his tweets show that he was likely fed up with years of bad blood and seemingly treatment within the industry. Fez 2 isn’t the only great game that never got a sequel, but it might be the most mourned.

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