User:Gregorik/András Gregorik
András Gregorik | |
|---|---|
| Born | Budapest |
| Occupation | video game designer, writer |
| Genre | Urban fantasy, Magical realism, Speculative fiction, Psychological thriller |
András Gregori (b. Budapest, c. 1984) is a Hungarian video game developer, programmer and writer, working under the brand GregOrigin Games.
Life and Career
Gregori graduated from Anne Frank High School, a subdivision of the Budapest University of Jewish Studies at the time. Majoring in English studies at the University of Budapest, he worked as an English translator and a film assistant during his college years.[1] His early jobs also included stints as a church caretaker and a reviewer at a local game magazine.
From the 2000's, Gregori worked mostly as a freelance journalist, editor and translator in and around Budapest. His initial attempts at creating computer games met with failure: Below and Age of the Magi, two Windows-exclusive adventure game titles he co-developed, folded due to a loss of funding. From the 2010's, he turned to writing Hungarian-language novels and screenplays, mostly about disaffected Central European youth, with a hint of magical realism: material from his books, titled Basic Fault, Pseudolife and What planet are you from?, later resurfaced in his games. His screenplays were picked up, but remained in development hell within the Hungarian studio system. At this time he also joined the Budapest Digital Archives as a translator. He eventually founded GregOrigin Studio in 2016 to work on story-centric multiplatform games. [2]
List of games created
- Existentia Episode 1: This Girl's Life (Adventure game, 2019)
- Existentia Episode 2: Escape From Fifedom (Adventure game, 2019)
- Love/Hate Triangle, Chapter 1 (Adventure game, 2020)
- Love/Hate Triangle, Chapter 2 (Adventure game, 2020)
- PseudoLife/ThinFabric/UrbaNite (Adventure game in 3 episodes, 2021)
- Warehouse To Let/Hive Mind (RPG, 2023)
List of written works
- What planet are you from? (screenplay, 2003)[3]
- Shakespeare's approach towards Christian Mysticism after 1600 (book-length essay, 2005)
- Basic fault (screenplay, 2006)
- Pseudolife (screenplay, 2006)
- Basic fault (novel, 2006)[4]
- The Natasha Caste (novel, 2008)[5]
- What planet are you from? (novella, 2009)
- Thin Fabric (screenplay, 2018)
English editions
- Basic fault (pending)