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Michael Booth is an American video game designer and executive and the current chief creative officer of Bad Robot Games. He was also creator and lead designer of ''Left 4 Dead'' and founder of Turtle Rock Studios, later acquired by Valve Corporation. Early career and ''Nox'' Throughout his career, Booth has generally focused on creating cooperative online multiplayer games, a genre for which he continues to advocate as recently as 2022. One of Booth's earliest projects was ''Nox'', which he created in his apartment. He brought a demo to the Game Developers Conference, and ultimately, ''Nox'' was published in 2000 through the Westwood Studios division of Electronic Arts, with Booth in the roles of project lead and lead designer. His career at Electronic Arts continued with Booth serving creative roles for 2000's '' Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge'' and 2003's '' Command & Conquer: Generals''. Turtle Rock Studios In 2002, Booth founded Turtle Rock Studios, where he served as ...
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Chief Creative Officer
The title Chief Creative Officer (CCO) typically describes the highest-ranking position of a creative team within a media company. Depending on the type of company, this position may be responsible for the overall look and feel of marketing, media, and branding associated with the organization. The CCO may also be charged with managing, developing, and leading one or multiple teams of creative directors, art directors, designers, and copywriters. They may also have charge over long-term planning related to intellectual property owned by the company, as in the case of Marvel Comics/Marvel Studios, DC Comics/DC Studios, or the WWE. Overall description The CCO directs a company's creative strategy and output that drives and defines a company's brand. A CCO is often heavily involved in development cycles for consumer-facing media products, such as films, TV, or videogames. The CCO helps to craft creative decision-making and work processes to optimize for quality and consumer satisfact ...
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Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a Simulation, simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), education (such as medical, safety, or military training) and business (such as virtual meetings). VR is one of the key technologies in the Reality–virtuality continuum, reality-virtuality continuum. As such, it is different from other digital visualization solutions, such as augmented virtuality and augmented reality. Currently, standard virtual reality systems use either virtual reality headsets or multi-projected environments to generate some realistic images, sounds, and other sensations that simulate a user's physical presence in a virtual environment. A person using virtual reality equipment is able to look around the artificial world, move around in it, and interact with virtual features or items. The effect is commonly creat ...
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Living People
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21st-century American Businesspeople
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British Academy Games Award For Multiplayer
The British Academy Video Games Award for Multiplayer is an award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is given in honor of "the best multiplayer game experience, including social, online or offline". The award was formerly known as the British Academy Video Games Award for Online Multiplayer at the 2005, 2012 and 2013 ceremonies. The award was first presented at the 1st British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony in 2004, with the EA Digital Illusions CE and Electronic Arts game ''Battlefield 1942'' winning. Since its inception, the award has been given to eighteen games. Among developers, Valve has received the most awards, with three wins from four nominations, while Electronic Arts leads the publishers, with five wins from their sixteen nominations. Bungie holds the record for the developer with the most nominations without a win, with five Activision is the publisher with the most nominations without a win, with thirteen. The curr ...
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Chet Faliszek
Chet Faliszek (; born 1965) is an American video game writer who has worked for companies like Valve and Bossa Studios, having been involved in the story writing for series such as ''Half-Life'', '' Portal'', and ''Left 4 Dead''. Career Faliszek first gained recognition as the co-creator of the satirical '' Old Man Murray'' website along with Erik Wolpaw around 1997, and which ran until 2002. Valve Faliszek's and Wolpaw's writings led to them being hired by Valve circa 2005. Along with Wolpaw and Marc Laidlaw, Faliszek helped to create the storylines for the ''Half-Life'' and '' Portal'' series, along with having personally written the story for ''Left 4 Dead''. He was also involved with Valve's work in virtual reality (VR) through the HTC Vive. In May 2017, Faliszek announced that after twelve years with Valve, he had left the company earlier in the year to work on unannounced projects. Bossa and Vertigo By September 2017, Faliszek had joined London-based Bossa Studios, an ...
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Gabe Newell
Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962), also known by his nickname Gaben, is an American video game developer and businessman. He is the president and co-founder of the video game company Valve Corporation. Newell was born in Colorado and grew up in Davis, California. He attended Harvard University in the early 1980s but dropped out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first versions of the Windows operating system. In 1996, he and Mike Harrington left Microsoft to found Valve and fund the development of their first game, ''Half-Life'' (1998). Harrington sold his stake in Valve to Newell and left in 2000. Newell led the development of Valve's digital distribution service, Steam, which launched in 2003 and controlled most of the market for downloaded PC games by 2011. As of 2021, Newell owned at least one quarter of Valve. He has been estimated as one of the wealthiest people in the United States and the wealthiest person in the video games industry, with a net wo ...
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12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
The ''12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards'' was the 12th edition of the Interactive Achievement Awards, an annual awards event that honored the best games in the video game industry during 2008. The awards were arranged by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) and were held at the Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada on . It was also held as part of the Academy's 2009 D.I.C.E. Summit, and was hosted by stand-up comedian Jay Mohr. The award for " Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction" was introduced this year. Even though the award for " Outstanding Achievement in Game Design" was not listed in the rules & procedures for the 12th annual awards, there were still finalists named for the category. Separate awards for " Outstanding Achievement in Story" were offered for original material and adapted material. "Downloadable Game of the Year" was not offered this year. Finalists were named for " Fighting Game of the Year" and "Casual Game of the Y ...
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Tabletop Role-playing Game
A tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG or TRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a kind of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech and sometimes movements. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a set role-playing game system, formal system of rules and guidelines, usually involving randomization (such as through dice). Within the rules, players have the freedom to improvisation, improvise, and their choices shape the direction and outcome of the game. Neither pen and paper nor a table are strictly necessary for a game to count as a TTRPG; rather, the terms ''pen-and-paper'' and ''tabletop'' are typically used to distinguish this format of RPG from role-playing video games or live action role-playing games. Online play of TTRPGs through videoconferencing has become common since the COVID-19 pandemic. Some common e ...
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Demeo
DeMeo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adriana DeMeo (born 1981), American actress *Bob DeMeo (1955-2022), American musician *Roy DeMeo (1940–1983), Italian-American mobster *William DeMeo (born 1971), American actor, producer, director, and writer See also *Dameo Dameo is an Abstract strategy game, abstract strategy board game for two players invented by Christian Freeling in 2000. It is a variant of the game draughts (or English draughts, checkers) and is played on an 8×8 checkered gameboard. Setup Da ... * Demeo {{surname ...
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Oculus Rift
Oculus Rift is a discontinued line of virtual reality headsets, virtual reality headsets developed and manufactured by Oculus VR, a virtual reality company founded by Palmer Luckey that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry. It was the first virtual reality headset to provide a realistic experience at an accessible price, utilizing novel technology to increase quality and reduce cost by orders of magnitude compared to earlier systems. The first headset in the line was the Oculus Rift DK1, released on March 28, 2013. The last was the Oculus Rift S, discontinued in April 2021. The Rift went through various pre-production models prior to the release of the Oculus Rift CV1, the first Oculus Rift intended for use by the general public. Two of these, the DK1 in early-2013 and DK2 in mid-2014, were intended to provide content developers with a Software development kit, development kit platform to create content for the Rift's eventual consumer release. However, b ...
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Mike Schroepfer
Mike Schroepfer is an entrepreneur, technical architect, climate investor, and philanthropist who was the chief technology officer (CTO) at Meta Platforms between March 2013 and March 2022. In 2022 he transitioned to become Senior Fellow at Meta to focus on investing and philanthropic work related to addressing the climate crisis. Schroepfer's current focus is investing in tech and science to fight climate change through his VC firm Gigascale Capital, philanthropic entitAdditional Ventures and as board chair of the Carbon to Sea Initiative. Education Schroepfer attended Spanish River Community High School in Palm Beach County, Florida, graduating in 1993. He holds a bachelor's degree (1997) and a master's degree (1999) in computer science from Stanford University. Career He was an engineer at computer software company Puffin Designs from October 1997 to November 1999, when he became a partner in Reactivity, Inc., a computer software consulting practice. Schroepfer founded ...
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