Jim Woods
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| Education: Colchester Royal Grammar School (graduated in 1979) |
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Jim Woods is a former Director of Development Services at Sega West.
He entered the games industry in 1989 with PC Wise, a company specialised in bulk disc duplication for magazine cover-mounts and joined Leeds based Vektor Grafix in the same year where he worked until 1990 as an Accountant. He joined Cross Products in 1991, as a Managing Director[1] supplying the first real-time editing tools to the worldwide game development community, the SNASM (the Spiny Norman's Assembler or SN Assembler, jointly developed by Martin Day a.k.a Spiny Norman of SN Systems and Ian Oliver and Andy Craven founders of Cross Products) until 1995, leaving the company in the same year, shortly after the business was sold to Sega.
After spending a short time in the multi-media sector, Jim joined DMA Design in 1997, where he stayed for four years as development director. He again joined Sega in 2006 as Head of External Development at SEGA Europe. Having held roles as project director and interim studio director at The Creative Assembly in Brisbane, (Sega Studios Australia) he returned to the SEGA Europe offices in 2011 as Director of Development Services at Sega West until May 2017. He is currently a Senior Development Director at Sheffield-based company Sumo Digital.
Production history
- Sega Mega Drive Collection (PlayStation Portable; 2006) — Head of External Development
- Sonic Rivals (PlayStation Portable; 2006) — Head of External Development
- Sonic and the Secret Rings (Wii; 2007) — Head of External Development
- Crush (PlayStation Portable; 2007) — Head of External Development
- Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (Nintendo DS; 2008) — Head of External Development
- Sonic Classic Collection (Nintendo DS; 2010) — Head of External Development
- Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure (Nintendo 3DS; 2012) — Director, Development Services SEGA West
- Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Nintendo 3DS; 2012) — Director of Development Services SEGA West
- Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition (Android; 2012) — Head of External Development
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II (Xbox 360; 2012) — Director of Development Services, Sega West
- 3D Sonic the Hedgehog (Nintendo 3DS; 2013) — Director, Development Services Sega West
- Sonic the Hedgehog (iOS; 2013) — Director of Development Services West
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Android; 2013) — Director of Development Services West
- Sonic Lost World (Wii U; 2013) — Director, Development Services Sega West
- Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (Wii U; 2014) — Director, Development Services Sega West
- Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal (Nintendo 3DS; 2014) — Director, Development Services Sega West
- Tembo the Badass Elephant (Steam; 2015) — Director, Development Services Sega West
- Football Manager 2017 (Windows PC; ?) — SEGA Development Services
- Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice (Nintendo 3DS; 2016) — Director, Development Services Sega West
Photographs
- Main article: Photos of Jim Woods