Don Daglow
Don L. Daglow (* 20th century in San Francisco, California) is an American developer and manufacturer of computer games. He is one of the long-standing pioneers of the gaming industry, beginning with the development for the mainframe to the seventh generation of consoles.
Biography
Don Daglow attended San Rafael High School in San Rafael ( California). From 1970 to 1974 he studied English and Drama at Pomona College in Claremont (California), where he graduated with a bachelor's degree. Furthermore, he acquired from 1974 to 1976 a Master of Education at the Claremont Graduate University and then worked for four years as an instructor.
As early as 1971 he began to deal with the development of computer games. 1975/76 Daglow developed for the PDP-10 mainframe computer role-playing dungeon, which is considered as one of the first addition dnd influenced by the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons rulebook computer games and one of the first computer role-playing games ever. In the course of his career Daglow intermittent returns to this License and developed so far six licensed games. Further developments during his high school years were a script game based on Star Trek.
In 1980, the toy manufacturer Mattel Daglow a job as a programmer for in-house game console Intellivision. There, he developed Utopia (1981 ), which was a huge commercial success and is considered the first simulation game or first gods simulation. Towards the end of his three years Daglow had risen to director of game development. During the so-called video game crash in 1983 Daglow was recruited by Trip Hawkins as producer for the game publisher Electronic Arts. In 1987 he moved for a year as Executive Publisher of the Department of Entertainment & Education to Brøderbund.
1988 Daglow eventually founded his own company Beyond software, because of the name similarity to another company, renamed Stormfront Studios in 1991 and was directed by Daglow as president and CEO. Stormfront developed with Neverwinter Nights (1991), the first graphical MMORPG and Stronghold (1993), the first real- time strategy game in 3D look. On 1 April 2008 it was announced that the company had ceased operations in the absence of orders.
Daglow was known addition to his work as a developer by numerous presentations at industry events such as the Game Developers Conference and its involvement in various industry organizations. From 2003 to 2011 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, he is since 2011 President of the underlying Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Foundation. At the reception, the terms " Console War " and Video Game Crash were mostly attributed to Daglow. Furthermore, often coining the term Next to him is said gene as a term for a new, upcoming generation of consoles, but this is denied by Daglow itself.
Ludography (excerpt)
- Dungeon (1975 /76)
- Utopia (1981)
- Earl Weaver Baseball ( 1987)
- Tony La Russa 's Ultimate Baseball ( 1991)
- Gateway to the Savage Frontier (1991 )
- Neverwinter Nights (1991 )
- Treasures of the Savage Frontier (1992 )
- Stronghold (1993 )
- Madden NFL '97 (1996 )
- Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone (2004)
- The Spiderwick Chronicles ( 2008)