Phil Fish, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Phil Fish

French Canadian former indie video game designer

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1984

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession: game designer, programmer, video game developer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Philippe Poisson (born 1984), better known as Phil Fish, is a French-Canadian former indie game designer best known for his work on the 2012 platform game Fez.
He was born and raised in Quebec, where his experiences with Nintendo games in his youth would later influence his game design.
He studied game design at the Montreal National Animation and Design Centre, and worked at Ubisoft and Artificial Mind and Movement before starting Polytron in 2008. Fish was a founding member of Kokoromi, a collective that explores experimental gameplay ideas, and organized Montreal's annual GAMMA games events.
While Fez was in development, Fish worked on other unreleased games at Polytron including SuperHyperCube and Power Pill. Fez was released in April 2012 to widespread acclaim after a protracted five-year development cycle.
Its final phases of development were shown in the 2012 documentary Indie Game: The Movie, which brought Fish fame unusual for game developers.
Following an online argument in July 2013, Fish publicly announced his exit from game development, citing long-term mistreatment by the industry.