Flint Dille is an American screenwriter, game designer and novelist.
22 Facts About Flint Dille
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Flint Dille received a Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California.
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Flint Dille is the grandson of John F Dille, publisher of the original Buck Rogers comic strip, and is part of the Dille Family Trust, which owned the rights to the character.
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Flint Dille worked on an extensive rewrite of Ron Friedman's screenplay for The Transformers: The Movie ; although Friedman contractually received sole screenplay credit, Flint Dille was credited onscreen as the film's story consultant.
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Flint Dille introduced his sister Lorraine Williams to Gygax at Gygax's request.
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Flint Dille was able to get the boardgame A Line in the Sand published the same day the US bombing started in the first Gulf War, as he could convince the company president to move quickly.
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The Buck Rogers roleplaying game XXVc was started TSR West, but Flint Dille was unable to finish the game so it was sent back east.
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At TSR, Flint Dille worked on Dragonstrike, for which he wrote and directed the video portion.
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Flint Dille directed several interactive audio projects, including First Quest, Karameikos, Red Steel and Planescape.
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X: Track of the Vampyre, was later adapted into a CD-ROM by Grolier, directed by Flint Dille and programmed by Peter Marx and Evolutionary Publishing.
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Flint Dille co-wrote the Agent 13: The Midnight Avenger series of novels and graphic novels with David Marconi and the Buck Rogers XXVC comic modules Rude Awakening.
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Flint Dille's career shifted to interactive games in the late 80's when he worked on several projects for the Sega CD platform, including Double Switch, Maximum Surge and Corpse Killer.
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Flint Dille then worked on Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike for Electronic Arts, writing the videos and completing his transition from paper games and products to video games.
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Flint Dille won "Story of the Year" for his work on The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and on Dead to Rights.
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Flint Dille was the writer for other video games, including Fantastic Four 2, Teen Titans, Superman Returns, James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies, Soviet Strike, and Nuclear Strike.
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Flint Dille is a close friend of comics creator Frank Miller; "Frank and I met during what I call our 'professional adolescence' when he was doing the Dark Knight and I was doing the Transformers cartoon series", says Flint Dille, "and we've been great friends ever since".
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Flint Dille was selected to lead the design, scriptwriting, story generation, and production of a video game adaptation of Miller's Sin City for Red Mile Entertainment.
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Google revealed Flint Dille to be the creative lead of alternate reality, geomobile game Ingress on All Tech Considered, an NPR radio segment.
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Flint Dille was revealed to be leaving Google with Niantic Labs and continuing in his position as Creative Lead.
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Recently Flint Dille completed a Transformers graphic novel trilogy, Autocracy, with Chris Metzen and Livio Ramondelli.
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Flint Dille co-wrote and co-executive produced Dimension's 2005 horror film Venom.
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Flint Dille taught an Alternate Reality Game Design class at UCLA film school, Winter Semester 2011.