Brett Sperry
Brett Wesley Sperry (* Newington (Connecticut ), United States) is an American computer game developer, entrepreneur and gallery. Together with Louis Castle, he was the founder of the company Westwood Studios and there largely responsible for the concept of the title Command & Conquer, helped the genre of real-time strategy games to break through. The genre name is attributed to Sperry.
Life
Sperry interested claims to have been since childhood for computers and computer games. Nevertheless, he completed only one study of psychology and architecture at Arizona State University. In 1979 he came with his family from Connecticut to Las Vegas. There he learned in 1983/84 at the Apple Store Century 23 Seller Louis Castle know. In March, 1985, with early 20's, Sperry and Castle together founded the development studio Westwood Associates ( later renamed to Westwood Studios) in Las Vegas. Prior to founding West Woods Sperry worked as a programmer for Applied Computer Technology in Las Vegas, where he performed together with Peter Filiberti games conversions for Activision, Imagic and other companies. One of his main tasks was the port of the game Impossible Mission on the Apple II Sperry took over at Westwood tasks in the field of design, production, support, packaging design and content. For the marketing of the title Dune 2 Sperry created the genre name real-time strategy game for the description of the game concept. Together with Joe Bostic, he developed the design concept for Command & Conquer, which finally helped the genre to a breakthrough and a large number of imitators moved by itself.
1997 until the takeover Westwood by the U.S. publisher Electronic Arts Sperry worked alongside his work as president and CEO of Westwood also as President of Worldwide Development for Westwood's parent company, Virgin Interactive. 1996 listed the U.S. online games Gamespot # 3 on the most influential people of the year in the PC game industry, as well as on position 6 of the most influential people of all time. In 1997, the U.S. game magazine Computer Gaming World Sperry also listed at number 6 of the most influential game designers of all time. Sperry left Westwood in 2003, when the agreed on the takeover of the studio with EA 1998 contract had expired over five years. That same year, Westwood Studios, EA was dissolved and bundled the previous activities and the C & C franchise in the studio EA Los Angeles.
Opened in 2007, the Sperry Brett Wesley Gallery in Las Vegas, where he has since been working as a co- curator. In addition, he founded in 2008 together with Adam Isgreen, Joseph Hewitt and Rade Stojsavljevic development studio Jet Set Games.