Richard Rouse III is an American

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best known as the designer of '' The Suffering'' (2004) and the author of ''Game Design: Theory & Practice''.

Career

Rouse produced two Macintosh games, fantasy RPG ''Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis'' (1996) and the military first-person shooter ''

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'' (1997). They used the technology of

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and Marathon 2. Rouse went on to work at Leaping Lizard Software where he was lead designer on the 1998 3D

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of ''

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''. From there he moved to

Surreal Software Surreal Software was an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, known for '' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'', '' The Suffering'' and '' Drakan'' ...

where he was lead designer and writer on the action horror game '' The Suffering'' and creative director and writer on its sequel, '' The Suffering: Ties That Bind''. Rouse wrote the book ''Game Design: Theory & Practice'', first released in 2001 and revised in 2004. Rouse was one of four creative leads working on '' Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots'' for Ubisoft Montreal that were removed from the project in March 2012. Rouse now works at FarBridge as Studio Creative Director where's been since 2021

Video games

*''Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis'' (1996) *''

'' (1997) *''

'' (1998) *'' The Suffering'' (2004) *'' The Suffering: Ties That Bind'' (2005) *'' The Church in the Darkness'' (2019)

Books

*''Game Design: Theory and Practice'' (2001, 2004)

References

External links

Paranoid Productions
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