Dino Dini

Dino Dini is a computer game developer specializing in football games. Dino Dini is most noted for being the creator of two extremely successful sports game brands - Kick Off and Player Manager. These redefined the football action and management games, and have influenced virtually all football (soccer) games ever since. Dino himself was not a football fan, he just started to work with Kick Off since ANCO asked him to make a football game.

Dino worked also in on a new football game to be published by Microprose from 1995 to 1996. Unfortunately Microprose decided to drop most of their sports titles, and the project was cancelled with an amicable agreement.

In 1996, Dino went to the United States in order to gain experience of corporate game development and management working as Group Leader and briefly as Project Manager. Dino helped Z-Axis ship Three Lions, the number one hit fully 3D soccer game published by Take 2 Interactive. This title was released under various different names in Europe, and also as Alexi Lalas International Soccer in the USA. Later Dino worked at Universal Studios directing prototype work for a project called "Monster Movie".

At 3DO Dino worked with the library group and directed development of "Vegas Games 2000" for Playstation to both create a product and put their library code through its paces, he did fire-fighting work on the hit game "Army Men Sarge's Heroes" for Nintendo 64" and also on "Family Game Pack" for Playstation. Dino directed the Groovy Bunch Of Games product for the PC, which included a new game design by Dino, "Box Battles". Finally at 3DO, Dino operated as "Studio Engineer", to encourage code sharing and programming standards between tech leads at the company.

Dino Dini also worked for a THQ studio, where he was given the task of directing the creation of a tripple A title in 6 months with no team in place and a small budget, succeeding in taking the project to Alpha, inspite of the fact that the technology team at the company were engaged in shipping a concurrent slipping title themselves and most of the technology codebase was shared and unsuitable for the task.

Dino returned to England in April 2001 and he's acutally working with his new development company, Abundant Software, and with DC studios personnel on site at Bristol into a new soccer game called Soccer 3.

Games Developed

• Kick Off (1989) Amiga/Atari ST Publisher: ANCO
• Kick Off Extra Time (1989) Amiga/Atari ST Publisher: ANCO
• Player Manager (1990) Amiga/Atari ST Publisher: ANCO
• Kick Off 2 (1990) Amiga/Atari ST Publisher: ANCO
• The Final Whistle (1991) Amiga/Atari ST Publisher: ANCO
• Return To Europe (1991) Amiga/Atari ST Publisher: ANCO
• Winning Tactics (1991) Amiga/Atari ST Publisher: ANCO
• GOAL! (1993) Amiga/Atari ST Publisher: Virgin Games
• Dino Dini's Soccer (1994) Sega Megadrive Publisher: Virgin Games

External Links

• KOA Kick Off Gathering (http://www.ko-gathering.com) - KOA (Kick Off Association) Official International Kick Off Fan Site (organising Kick Off World Cup tournaments since 2001)
• WIKICKOFF (http://www.kickoffworld.net/wiki) - The Free Kick Off Encyclopedia
• Abundant Software (http://www.abundantsoft.com) - Game Developer Dino Dini's current development company
• Kick Off World (http://www.kickoffworld.net) - Fan Site located in Italy (organising local tournaments)
• Deutschland ist Weltmaster  (http://www.deutschlandistweltmeister.de) - Fan Site located in Germany (organising local tournaments)
• Kick Off 2 Weltmeisterschaft  (http://www.kickoff2wm.de.vu) - Another Fan Site located in Germany (organising local tournaments)
• Kick Off 2 CUP (http://www.ko2-cup.tk) - Home of Kick Off 2 players in and around Osnabrück / Germany
• Alkis  (http://www.alkis.org/) - Greek Fan Site owned by the 2001 Kick Off 2 World Champion
• koa:.:net on line league  (http://www.koanet.co.uk) - Kick Off 2 online league
• Kick Off 2 online  (http://kickoff2online.free.fr) - French Kick Off 2 online