Chris Rhinehart is a programmer, game developer and co-founder of

Human Head Studios Human Head Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer located in Madison, Wisconsin. History Human Head Studios was founded in October 1997 by a group of six developers formerly from Raven Software: Ben Gokey, Chris Rhinehart, Paul M ...

. He is currently creative director at Roundhouse Studios. He started in 1994 in the game industry at the company

Raven Software Raven Software Corporation (trade name: Raven; formerly Raven Software, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Middleton, Wisconsin, and part of Activision. Founded in May 1990 by brothers Brian and Steve Raffel, the company is most ...

. He contributed to the programming of games such as ''

Heretic Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization. A heretic is a proponent of heresy. Heresy in Christianity, Judai ...

CyClones In meteorology, a cyclone () is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an ant ...

, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Necrodome,

Take No Prisoners No quarter, during War, military conflict or piracy, implies that combatants would not be taken Prisoner of war, prisoner, but executed. Since the Hague Convention of 1899, it is considered a war crime; it is also prohibited in customary interna ...

'' and '' Mageslayer'' alongside fellow developer Ben Gokey. In 1997, he left the company Raven and co-founded

alongside Paul MacArthur, Shane Gurno, Ben Gokey, James Sumwalt, and Ted Halsted. He worked on the titles '' Super Duelling Minivans,

Rune Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets, known as runic rows, runic alphabets or futharks (also, see '' futhark'' vs ''runic alphabet''), native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were primarily used to represent a sound value (a ...

'' and the add-on '' Halls of Valhalla'', '' Blair Witch, Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock'' (installer) and most recently ''

Prey Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not ki ...

''.Moby Games Id
/ref> Chris's father Gene Rhinehart died in early 1999 before ''Rune'' was completed, and Chris managed to focus on getting the game done - in memory of his Dad. The final credits of the game are dedicated to him.Runegame
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Games credited

* ''

'' (1994) * ''

'' (1994) * '' Hexen: Beyond Heretic'' (1995) * '' Necrodome'' (1996) * '' Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders'' (1996) * ''

'' (1997) * '' Super Duelling Minivans'' (1997) * '' Mageslayer'' (1997) * ''

'' (2000) * '' Rune: Halls of Valhalla'' (2001) * '' Rune Gold'' (2001) * '' Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project'' (2002) * ''

'' (2006) * ''

Prey 2 ''Prey 2'' was a cancelled first-person shooter video game to be published by Bethesda Softworks and planned as a sequel to the 2006 video game ''Prey''. Though ''Prey 2'' was announced by 3D Realms in 2006, a few months after release of the fi ...

'' (unreleased)

References

Living people American video game designers American video game programmers Year of birth missing (living people) {{videogame-bio-stub ZeniMax Media