Arjan Brussee (pronounced ar-yan broo-zhay) (born 1972) is a Dutch

video game programmer A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebases for video games or related software, such as game development tools. Game programming has many specialized disciplines, all of which fall ...

and entrepreneur. He was the main coder of the first two ''

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'' games and co-founded

Guerrilla Games Guerrilla B.V. (trade name: Guerrilla Games) is a Dutch First-party developer, first-party video game developer based in Amsterdam and part of PlayStation Studios. The company was founded as Lost Boys Games in January 2000 through the merger of ...

and

Boss Key Productions Boss Key Productions, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in April 2014 by Cliff Bleszinski and Arjan Brussee, formerly of Epic Games, the company developed ''LawBreakers'' (2017) and ''Radical He ...

. He is often credited with being the first successful Dutch game developer.

Career

Brussee was a member of the

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group Ultra Force, where he coded ''Vectordemo'', one of the first demos with 3D imagery on

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s. At Guerrilla Games, he worked on the ''

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'' series as a development director and part of the management team. On 23 February 2012, Brussee announced that he was leaving Guerilla to join the

EA Games Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by former Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted ...

studio

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as an executive producer for ''

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''. In July 2014, news leaked of Brussee leaving EA and co-founding

with

Cliff Bleszinski Cliff Bleszinski (; born February 12, 1975), popularly known as CliffyB, is an American video game designer, known for his work on the '' Unreal'' and ''Gears of War'' series while at Epic Games. After leaving Epic in 2012, he co-founded Boss K ...

. In December 2017, Brussee left Boss Key Productions to return to

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after a 20-year hiatus from the company. Since rejoining

, Brussee has been working on an unannounced project.

References

1972 births Living people Demosceners Video game programmers Dutch computer programmers {{videogame-bio-stub