Brian Allgeier

Brian Allgeier (born March 10, 1971) is an American video game designer who is best known for being the original designer and creative director of the Ratchet & Clank series developed by Insomniac Games for the PS2, PS3, PS4 and PS5.

Brian Allgeier
Allgeier in 2017
Born	(1971-03-10) March 10, 1971 (age 54) Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Occupations	Creative director game designer author
Years active	1993–present

He started working in videogames in 1991 as an artist and animator on the CD-i title, Hanna Barbera’s Cartoon Carnival for Philips Media. He worked as part of the internal production group, *FunHouse*, led by game designer Cliff Johnson.

In 1999, he joined Insomniac Games as a level designer on the Spyro the Dragon series for the PlayStation and later became design director on the Ratchet & Clank series for the PlayStation 2. In 2006, he became creative director on Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction,^[1] which was the first PlayStation 3 installment for the Ratchet & Clank series, as well as the first installment for the Future series.

Games

Game title	Release	Platform	Role
Hanna Barbera's Cartoon Carnival	1993	CD-i	Lead artist
Merlin's Apprentice	1994	CD-i	Lead artist
Labyrinth of Crete	1995	CD-i	Lead artist
Running Wild	1998	PSone	Designer
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!	1999	PSone	Designer
Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon	2000	PSone	Designer
Ratchet & Clank	2002	PS2	Design director
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando	2003	PS2	Design director
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal	2004	PS2	Design director
Ratchet: Deadlocked	2005	PS2	Design manager
Resistance: Fall of Man	2006	PS3	Design manager
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction	2007	PS3	Creative director
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty	2008	PS3	Creative director
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time	2009	PS3	Creative director
Fuse	2013	PS3, Xbox 360	Co-creative director
Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus	2013	PS3	Creative director
Ratchet & Clank	2016	PS4	Co-creative director
Edge of Nowhere	2016	Oculus Rift	Creative director