EASW Producer Blog: Eric Busch

EA Sports World has posted a new blog entry from Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf (Wii version) producer Eric Busch.

The blog does not disclose any game features or news, but does talk about Busch’s career path in becoming a game producer.

I’ve been at EA for about four and a half years, and have been a golf fan for even longer.  I’ve played the sport since I was a kid, and during high school and college many of my weekends and summers were spent working as a greenskeeper at local country clubs.  I certainly wasn’t a huge fan of waking up before dawn, but getting to play for free on Monday afternoons when the course was closed was a nice perk.  We had to walk, but a free round is a free round, right?

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Hello, my name is Eric Busch and I’m a Designer on the Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® franchise, specifically for the Nintendo Wii.

I’ve been at EA for about four and a half years, and have been a golf fan for even longer.  I’ve played the sport since I was a kid, and during high school and college many of my weekends and summers were spent working as a greenskeeper at local country clubs.  I certainly wasn’t a huge fan of waking up before dawn, but getting to play for free on Monday afternoons when the course was closed was a nice perk.  We had to walk, but a free round is a free round, right?

Based on that experience, my senior thesis for my Human and Natural Ecology co-major (more than a minor, but not a double major) was entitled “Building an Environmentally Friendly Golf Course”.  Now I know what you’re thinking, but trust me, it was a real page turner.  I later went on to get my master’s degree in education, but through a series of fortunate events I ended up in the game industry instead of the classroom.  I guess the moral of this story is to drink your milk and stay in school, or something like that.

I wish I could start filling you in on just what we have store for the upcoming game, but unfortunately we’re not quite ready to open the information floodgates just yet.  I’m genuinely excited about it though, and hopefully you will be too.

Anyway, I’ll follow up with more as time permits and am looking forward to hearing from everyone.

- EB