Mat Dickie (born 1980/1981),[1] professionally known as MDickie, is an English independent video game developer and author. He is best known for his indie professional wrestling games,[2] such as Wrestling Revolution for iOS and Android devices, which received over 100,000 downloads two months after its launch in 2012.[3] The game later went on to surpass 10 million downloads[4] and its sequel, Wrestling Revolution 3D, went on to compete with WWE 2K games on the mobile and PC market.[5]
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Dickie began his game development career in 2000 with his first PC game, going on to retire in 2009 to become an educator. He came out of retirement in late 2011 and transitioned to mobile game development, which led to the release of Wrestling Revolution in 2012. However, he once again retired from full-time game development in 2018. In 2019, Dickie confirmed that a new wrestling project was in development for the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. This project later emerged as Wrestling Empire, which was released in early 2021.
Dickie released his first game, Hardy Boyz Stunt Challenge, in August 2000.[1][6] The game had the player play as one of the Hardy Boyz, who were wrestlers in the WWF (later renamed the WWE). The game took two weeks to complete and was posted on a wrestling website where it received 15,000 downloads and positive feedback, which inspired him to continue making video games and to make his own website in November 2000 to host his games.[6][14] He moved to Manchester in 2001 to complete a Bachelor of Science in video games and computers at Salford University.[1][11] In that same year, he released his first complete game, Federation Online, a flash-based wrestling game.[15]
In early 2012, Dickie was unemployed, about to buy his first home and awaiting the birth of his first child; this motivated him to come out of retirement and move to developing mobile games, releasing Wrestling Revolution as his first major mobile game.[6][21] He also released several 2D remakes of his classic PC games on mobile, such as Popscene in 2014, Wrecked, and Hard Time in 2017.[22] His most successful game to date, Wrestling Revolution 3D, reached 50 million downloads in 2017, becoming the first sports game on Google Play to do so.[6][23]
In 2019, Dickie confirmed that a new wrestling project was in development for the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. This project was later revealed to be Wrestling Empire, and was released on January 11, 2021.[26] Dickie originally wanted the release to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the release of WWF No Mercy in 2020, which also marked his 20th year as a game developer; however, the COVID-19 pandemic led to him only being able to finish what he approximated to be a third of what he had planned for the game which lead to the project being delayed. Dickie thus decided to release Wrestling Empire in its unfinished state and add additional features through regular updates.[27] The game has been described as reminiscent of wrestling games on the Nintendo 64,[28] which Dickie drew inspiration from, specifically the era's focus on "gameplay over graphics", which he believes fit his priorities as an indie developer.[29]
Wrestling Empire is an entertaining wrestling arena simulator, but there are many elements of tension and complexity for players to understand this sport better. Moreover, its simple and vivid 3D graphics use perfectly optimized engines to provide the smoothest and most fluid action. Not only experience the sport of wrestling, but players can also create their own company and business to develop themselves and enjoy all the flourishes.
Wrestling is a widely loved sport, and Wrestling Empire emulates it in every detail in its refined and polished gameplay. All elements or mechanisms are also integrated and seamless for players to be more creative and flexible when using any movement. Besides, the arenas have funny designs and diverse sizes so that each wrestling fight can take place with a large number of wrestlers at once for an atmosphere.
All gameplay and content in Wrestling Empire are mainly for entertainment and fun as they use many illogical things in every match. It is also an opportunity for players to experience managing a business or hosting wrestling shows, thereby becoming successful with this type of program.
A while ago, I reviewed a wrestling game called Wrestling Revolution 3D. The game is for mobiles, a small console called the Ouya, and there is a PC version of the game in development. The game was developed by a single person nicknamed Mdickie, who has made plenty of wrestling games in the past, including Wrestling Revolution, which is like Fire Pro Wrestling, on a camera angle similar to the SNES wrestling games, and has a button based grappling system. Mdickie has spent the last nine months working on the 3D version of the game, which has been released in October. But in October, you only had "cards" of shows. Finally, Mdickie spent the last three months releasing a Career mode similar to his other games, where you take a created wrestler and put him through a very detailed career. Much to some people's surprise, he also bundled in a Booking mode, which is similar to the WWE games universe mode. This was surprising, because in the past he had it as a separate game. For a mobile game, it is kind of pricey. It is free to download and play both career modes, and all the shows. However, to get access into Exhibition mode and both Career modes (easier to get a good contract, or sign someone in Booking mode), and to unlock the editor, and removing all ads, it will cost $9.98 USD. 2ff7e9595c
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