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Mikey Neumann
Neumann in 2013
Personal information
Born (1982-04-16) April 16, 1982 (age 42)[1]
NationalityAmerican
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–present
Subscribers250,000[2]
Total views14,791,167[2]
100,000 subscribers
Last updated: 10 October 2019

Mikey Neumann (born April 16, 1982) is an American YouTuber and video game writer. He is known for the channel FilmJoy on which he posts the film criticism series Movies with Mikey. The series aims to celebrate the positive elements of movies and was nominated for an Emmy in 2017 in the Outstanding Informational Series or Special category.

Prior to his work on YouTube, Neumann worked in the video games industry as a creative director and writer on games including Brothers in Arms, Borderlands and Borderlands 2. He worked at Gearbox Software for 16 years, ultimately earning the title 'chief creative champion', before departing the company as a result of health issues.

Career

Video games

Neumann began working in video games at the age of 19. He left college after one year to do quality assurance on Gearbox Software's PlayStation 2 port of Half-Life, becoming a full-time member of staff a year later, in 2001, as a texture artist.[3][4] He went on to write, provide voice acting, and was creative director or associate creative director, for games including the Brothers in Arms series, Aliens: Colonial Marines and Borderlands.[5][6] For Borderlands Neumann additionally voiced the character Scooter, and provided motion capture for Lilith's in-game introduction.[7][8] He also wrote comics for the series, including the prequel Borderlands: Origins.[9][10] During his time at Gearbox Software, Neumann held positions variously as an artist, writer, creative director, and cinematic director.[8]

When pre-orders for Borderlands became available, Neumann tweeted "Twitter me a screen of you buying the game and I'll play BLs with you and give you loot." When the tweet was picked up by gaming news website Kotaku,[11] the popularity of the tweet exploded, with more than 200 players tweeting their game receipts. As a result, Neumann spent more than 3 days playing the game, grouping up with each player and giving them in-game weapons.[12] In 2014, Neumann gave the keynote talk at PAX Prime.[5] Alongside developers from other game studios, he created a card for Magic 2015, titled Chasm Skulker.[13]

In 2016 Neumann, then in the position of 'chief creative champion', was announced as the lead writer on the upcoming Borderlands 3.[14] In June 2017, however, he left Gearbox Software as a result of ongoing health issues, stating that "Everything is 1,000,000% amicable with Gearbox. I physically just can't do the work anymore", and opened a Patreon account to crowdfund his YouTube videos.[15] In 2019 Neumann assisted with the creation of the trailer for Borderlands 3.[16]

YouTube

In 2010, Neumann created a web series alongside Anthony Burch called Anthony Saves The World.[17] He started a film criticism series titled Movies with Mikey in 2014 on the Chainsawsuit Original YouTube channel (now titled FilmJoy), in collaboration with Kris Straub.[18] The videos focus on the positive elements of movies, celebrating and highlighting aspects of those movies Neumann enjoyed. He described the impetus for the series as a desire for people "to feel good about the things they like, as opposed to feeling attacked all the time" and he aims to bring something new to viewers' opinion of the film, such as framing John Wick in a mythological context.[19] After leaving Gearbox Software in 2017, Neumann began funding the series via Patreon alongside a move to becoming a full time YouTuber.[20] 5 days after his Patreon opened, more than 1,300 fans were pledging money each month to fund his videos.[18]

Neumann initially envisioned Movies with Mikey as being focused on films which were reviewed negatively in the 1990s and 2000s, providing viewers with a deeper appreciation for them. When the first videos didn't receive many views, he refocused the series. His video on The World's End received considerably more attention, including being shared and commented on by the film's director and cast.[4] Movies with Mikey has since covered movies and television shows including 10 Cloverfield Lane,[21] Princess Mononoke,[22] and Stranger Things.[4] The series was nominated for an Emmy in 2017, in the Outstanding Informational Series or Special category.[23]

Personal life

In October 2011, while playing games at the Gearbox Software office, Neumann suffered a stroke, resulting in him being hospitalised for nine days. Doctors initially diagnosed Neumann with multiple sclerosis, later deciding that the stroke was in fact a result of a patent foramen ovale.[3] Neumann would later find out, however, that he does have multiple sclerosis.[24] Following auto-immune failure as a result of his condition, Neumann was hospitalised again in 2017.[8][18] Neumann is asexual.[25]

Works

Year Game Role
2005 Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 Writer[26]
2005 Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood Writer and Story Director[27]
2007 Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Writer[28]
2009 Borderlands Writer[6]
2012 Borderlands 2 Co-writer and Creative Director[29]
2013 Aliens: Colonial Marines Writer[30]

References

  1. ^ "Mikey Neumann on Twitter". 16 April 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b "About FilmJoy". YouTube.
  3. ^ a b Good, Owen (26 October 2011). "At Age 29, a Game Developer Must Battle Back from a Stroke". Kotaku. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Wilbur, Brock (11 January 2018). "Mikey Neumann Is the Future of YouTube Film Critics". Paste Magazine. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b Makuch, Eddie (21 August 2014). "Borderlands Writer Mikey Neumann Giving Keynote at PAX Prime". Gamespot. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  6. ^ a b Pitcher, Jenna (25 June 2014). "Borderlands writer to open PAX Prime, band lineup live". Polygon. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  7. ^ Devore, Jordan (3 December 2009). "Mikey Neumann provided mo-cap for Lilith in Borderlands". Destructoid. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  8. ^ a b c Handrahan, Matthew (6 June 2017). "Gearbox chief creative Mikey Neumann departs due to ill health". gamesindustry.biz. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  9. ^ Nix, Marc (10 July 2014). "Borderlands: Fall of Fyrestone #1 Preview". IGN. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  10. ^ Workman, Robert (20 September 2012). "Gearbox's Mikey Neumann Talks "Borderlands: Origins" Comics". CBR. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  11. ^ Good, Owen (27 September 2009). "Borderlands' Unique, and Semiofficial, Preorder Bonus [Updated]". Kotaku. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  12. ^ Good, Owen (22 October 2009). "Borderlands' Creative Boss Lives Up to His Loot Promises". Kotaku. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  13. ^ Dyer, Mitch (23 June 2014). "Magic 2015: Meet the Monster Designed by Borderlands' Writer". IGN. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  14. ^ Matulef, Jeffrey (22 April 2016). "Gearbox confirms that Borderlands 3 will be its next game". Eurogamer. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  15. ^ Frank, Allegra (5 June 2017). "Gearbox writer Mikey Neumann, facing health issues, leaves studio". Polygon. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  16. ^ Macgregor, Jody (30 March 2019). "Borderlands 2 was ahead of its time". PC Gamer. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  17. ^ Good, Owen (24 November 2010). "Borderlands Writers Play A Bloody Game Of Catan". Kotaku. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  18. ^ a b c Carter, Chase (26 September 2017). "Illness Motivated Plano YouTuber Mikey Neumann to Ask: Could This Be a Full-Time Job?". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  19. ^ Gartenberg, Chaim (9 December 2016). "Movies with Mikey is a video celebration of what makes movies great". The Verge. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  20. ^ Ohlheiser, Abby (13 December 2017). "Facing a rebellion of furious creators, Patreon backs away from a new fee". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  21. ^ Johnston, Rae (24 November 2017). "How '10 Cloverfield Lane' Was A Gamble That Paid Off, Big Time". Gizmodo Australia. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  22. ^ Alexander, Julia (6 March 2017). "Princess Mononoke gets the Movies with Mikey treatment in latest episode". Polygon. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  23. ^ Plaugic, Lizzie (13 June 2017). "Movies with Mikey gets its first Emmy nomination". The Verge. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  24. ^ Peele, Britton (14 August 2017). "After re-learning how to walk and talk, gaming personality Mikey Neumann finds new life on YouTube". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  25. ^ Tremblay, Kaitlin (2017). Ain't No Place for a Hero: Borderlands. ECW Press. ISBN 177305077X.
  26. ^ Neumann, Mikey (25 August 2012). "Oh, hi. I'm Mikey Neumann and I wrote Borderlands (and a bit of the sequel;) I also am writing a book". Reddit. Retrieved 10 October 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. ^ Tuttle, Will (2 October 2005). "Brotherhood and Squadmates". Gamespy. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  28. ^ Kratsch, Benjamin (6 March 2017). "Borderlands 3 goes Unreal Engine 4: Die erste Techdemo von Randy Pitchford". PC Games Hardware. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  29. ^ Pitts, Russ (17 May 2012). "Crazy Town: Gearbox on making Borderlands 2". Polygon. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  30. ^ Stuart, Keith (25 April 2012). "Aliens Colonial Marines - preview". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
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