Ian Frazier

“Working with Ian on the Lazarus project was an amazing experience and made me truly admire him. Ian was about my age, and we were both students at that time, yet it was obvious that this man would get very far in his career. He had a clear vision, he displayed incredible organisational skills, he managed to acquire excellent team members from around the globe for just about every department *and* actually made them deliver what they were capable of! He was as professional as one could possibly be; his personality and dedication were such that everyone trusted him and gave his or her best for the project. I noticed that people would usually stay motivated and do a great job even when they disagreed with Ian over something; he somehow had this remarkable way of engaging people. After all those years, I still look back proudly at the result of our collective achievement: a professional-quality fan game that was completed thanks to Ian, who is a living testimony that team leadership matters.”

“I can recommend Ian's work unequivocally. He’s a very rare combination of some of the best types of designers I’ve worked with: organized systems designer, fun-loving designer, charismatic-lead-the-team-as-part-of-the-team designer, out-of-the-box-idea-generator designer, plays-everything-and-analyzes-it designer, and practical-understands-business-reality designer. When we first met the leadership team and discussed opening Impossible, it took only a few hours for us to realize that we wouldn’t be interested in moving forward without Ian on board. Unsurprisingly, Ian had offers for key leadership positions on major AAA franchises, but he wanted to stay with his team, even though it meant taking over another studio’s unfinished mobile project. He and his team dove in with objective critical analysis, focused on the good things that were in the project, and used their expertise in action RPGs to identify where they could improve it. Yes, the studio was closed; but after I left Epic, I heard that Ian was offered a design position at Epic HQ. I was impressed with his maturity throughout that difficult process, as he gamely tried to learn from the experience, while helping his friends and co-workers with their own transitions. I’m delighted and proud to call Ian a friend, and would leap to hire him for any games-related project, and heck, maybe any project at all.”