Paul Neurath

Paul Neurath is an American game developer and entrepreneur. Neurath was the founder of the game development company Looking Glass Studios that under his leadership, influential titles such as Ultima Underworld, System Shock and Dark Project Thief: The spawned.

Career

Neurath began his career as a game developer in 1984. He worked for the development studio Origin Systems, for which he developed in 1989 published Space Rogue, a genre mix of space combat simulation and computer role-playing game, which is regarded as the unofficial predecessor of success Origins Wing Commander series. Lasting impression of the three-dimensional presentation of the game action in the RPG Dungeon Master, he set up after his work on Space Rogue in Salem ( New Hampshire) his own company Blue Sky Productions to develop with the goal of a real-time 3D fantasy role-playing game. He built up a core team of ten people, including the ex - Origin - graphic Doug Wike, the IBM programmer Chris Green and the young MIT graduate Doug Church and Dan Schmidt. The team developed a prototype, entitled Underworld, to the young company introduced to the industry trade show CES in May 1990 different companies. The prototype earned the company an a development agreement with Origin Systems and led to the development of Ultima Underworld, the first computer game, the three-dimensional, textured graphics in real time and this had represented an early physics engine.

In 1992 it merged with the Blue Sky Productions Company Lerner Research by Ned Lerner for development studio Looking Glass Technologies, which eventually changed its name as of 1996 under the name of Looking Glass Studios. The company was germ cell influential technologies and game titles like System Shock or Dark Project Thief: The and produced many influential designers. But on 24 May 2000, the company had to cease business operations due to financial problems.

Paul Neurath then founded the company Floodgate Entertainment, with whom he developed the first add-on of the computer role-playing game Neverwinter Nights, among others. Later, Floodgate laid on mobile games and casual games. 2011 took over the social gaming specialist Zynga the developer team of Floodgate, Paul Neurath was Creative Director of Zynga Boston. 2013 Neurath was appointed to the Advisory Board of the developer Demiurge Studios.

Games (selection)

  • Ogre (1986 ), Origin Systems
  • Deep Space: Operation Copernicus (1986 ), Sir -tech
  • Autoduel (1988 ), Origin Systems
  • Space Rogue (1989 ), Origin Systems
  • Omega (1989 ), Origin Systems
  • Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (1992 ), Origin Systems
  • Ultima Underworld 2: Labyrinth of Worlds (1992 ), Origin Systems
  • Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (1996 ), Looking Glass Studios
  • Flight Unlimited (1995 )
  • Flight Unlimited 2 (1997), Eidos
  • Dark Project Thief: The (1998), Eidos
  • System Shock 2 (1999), Electronic Arts
  • Flight Unlimited 3 (1999), Electronic Arts
  • Dark Project 2: The Metal Age (2000), Eidos
  • Jane's Combat Simulations: Attack Squadron (2002), Xicat Interactive
  • Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide (2003), Atari
  • Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark (2003), Atari
Space flight simulator game Role-playing video game Dungeon Master (video game) Salem (New Hampshire) Consumer Electronics Show Social Network Game Sir-Tech Omega (video game) Atari, Inc. (Atari, SA subsidiary) MobyGames Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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