Blake Robinson

Blake "Dummy" Robinson

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Information
Name: Blake Robinson
Handle: Dummy
Profession: Musician

Blake "Dummy" Robinson is a British musician and software developer known primarily for music released as his eponymous Synthetic Orchestra. He has also worked as a game designer and software developer, and was responsible for the development of a number of utilities for Battlezone mod developers.

Background

Robinson graduated Strode College in 2001, and entered the video game industry as a quality assurance tester for Electronic Arts, where he progressed to working as a tools analyst and developer. He remained at EA until Setember 2007 before joining Scottish developer Realtime Worlds, also as a tools developer. From there he moved on to Outplay Entertainment in August 2011, also in Scotland, before leaving to become a freelance composer in early 2012. He now works full-time on his Synthetic Orchestra project.

Battlezone Projects

• BZImportExport
• GEOViewer
• HGTViewer
• MAPViewer
• SDFImport
• SDFViewer
• VDFImport
• VDFViewer
• ZFSLoader
• Unzfs
• XSI Exporter
• Battlezone Re-Orchestrated

Credits

• Quality assurance on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Quality assurance on Bionicle: The Game
• Quality assurance on Knights of Honor
• Quality assurance on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Quality assurance on Cricket 2004
• Quality assurance on Catwoman
• Quality assurance on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Lead quality assurance on Battlefield 2: Booster Pack - Euro Force
• Senior tools engineering on APB: All Points Bulletin
• Original music on The Stanley Parable

Trivia

• The use of the word "dummy" as a one-time pejorative amongst the community of battlezone1.org is unrelated to Robinson's use of it as a handle.

Links

• Dummyworld - Former home page, Dummyworld (defunct - Battlezone directory)
• Synthetic Orchestra homepage
• Blake Robinson on MobyGames