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Terry Cavanagh (other)
Terry Cavanagh may refer to: * Terry Cavanagh (politician) (1926–2017), Canadian politician * Terry Cavanagh (developer) (born 1984), Irish video game designer See also * Terry Kavanagh, American comic book editor and writer {{hndis, Cavanagh, Terry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Cavanagh (politician)
Terence James Cavanagh ( ; July 19, 1926 – December 17, 2017) was a Canadians, Canadian politician, municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta, who served as mayor. He was Edmonton's first native-born mayor. Early life Cavanagh was born in Edmonton on July 19, 1926, to recent Scotland, Scottish immigrants. He attended high school in Edmonton before moving to Galt, Ontario to play ice hockey, hockey for the Galt Red Wings of the Ontario Hockey Association, where he was a teammate of Gordie Howe. After stints with the Dallas Texans of the United States Hockey League, the Valleyfield Braves (defunct), Valleyfield Braves of the Quebec Senior Hockey League, and the Los Angeles Ramblers and the Trail Smoke Eaters (senior), Trail Smoke Eaters of the Western International Hockey League, he retired from hockey and found employment in the purchasing department of Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. in Trail, British Columbia. Cavanagh married June Gould on April 12, 1948; the couple h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Cavanagh (developer)
Terry Cavanagh (, ; born 1984) is an Irish video game designer based in London, England. He has created over two dozen games, most notably ''VVVVVV'', '' Super Hexagon, and Dicey Dungeons''. Biography After studying mathematics at Trinity College in Dublin, Cavanagh worked briefly as a market risk analyst before moving to focus on game development full-time in 2007. While he received some attention in the press for his "serious and arty" indie games, Cavanagh faced significant financial difficulties in his early career. He was reportedly close to abandoning game development when ''VVVVVV'' (released in 2010) became an unexpected success, providing him with the financial means to continue developing games. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, he gave away 1000 copies of three of his games for free in the hope it would "offer a distraction" to those in need of it. Many of his titles share a primitive, minimalist retro aesthetic. He is credited as a programmer for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |