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Larry Ahern
Larry Ahern is an American computer game designer, writer, artist, and animator. He is best known for being the co-project leader on ''The Curse of Monkey Island'', alongside Jonathan Ackley. Career Larry Ahern began his career as an artist and animator on ''Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge'' in 1991. He was lead animator on Full Throttle in 1995, and finished his tenure at LucasArts as co-project leader on ''The Curse of Monkey Island'' in 1997. After leaving LucasArts, he joined Microsoft in 2001. While there, he worked as an artist on ''Blood Wake'' and ''Microsoft Flight Simulator X''. After leaving Microsoft, he co-founded Crackpot Entertainment with former LucasArts alumnus Mike Levine (game developer), Mike Levine. Through Crackpot Entertainment, they developed the action game, action-adventure game, adventure video game, game ''Insecticide (video game), Insecticide'',. Part I of Insecticide for the PC was released in 2008. However, development of Part II of the game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LucasArts
Lucasfilm Games (known as LucasArts between 1990 and 2021) is an American video game brand licensing, licensor, former video game developer and video game publisher, publisher, and a subsidiary of Lucasfilm. It was founded in May 1982 by George Lucas as a video game development group alongside his film company; as part of a larger 1990 reorganization of the Lucasfilm divisions, the video game development division was grouped and rebranded as part of LucasArts. LucasArts became known for LucasArts adventure games, its line of adventure games based on its SCUMM engine in the 1990s, including ''Maniac Mansion'', the ''Monkey Island'' series, and several ''Indiana Jones'' titles. A number of influential game developers were alumni of LucasArts from this period, including Brian Moriarty, Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert, and Dave Grossman (game developer), Dave Grossman. Later, as Lucasfilm regained control over its licensing over the ''Star Wars'' franchise, LucasArts produced numerous action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
