For the film director, see Michel Gondry
Michael Condrey is the co-founder and former studio head of Sledgehammer Games, which he 1️⃣ founded with Glen Schofield after their collaboration on the popular video game franchise Dead Space. He is now the president 1️⃣ of 31st Union, a 2K studio located in Silicon Valley, California.[1][2]
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Condrey graduated in 1997 from the University 1️⃣ of Washington. The following year, his senior thesis on applying biotechnology to conservation biology was published in the Molecular Ecology. 1️⃣ After working as a scuba diving instructor and boat captain in the Cayman Islands, he began work on a graduate 1️⃣ degree in Seattle. It was there that he launched his game development career, beginning with a summer job at Electronic 1️⃣ Arts (EA) during the peak of Seattle's gaming explosion. Condrey later relocated to Redwood City at the EA-owned studio Visceral 1️⃣ Games, where he became studio chief operations officer, as well as senior development director on the 2008 title Dead Space. 1️⃣ He also worked on three other successful EA franchises: Need for Speed, FIFA and the James Bond game series.[2][3]
Condrey (right) 1️⃣ and Glen Schofield at the Sledgehammer headquarter, 2009