Graeme Devine is a computer game designer and programmer who co-founded Trilobyte, created bestselling games The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, and designed id Software's Quake III Arena. A personal computer Game (also known as a computer game or simply PC game) is a Video game played on a Personal computer, rather A "game designer" is a person who designs Video games or one who designs traditional games such as Board games Video Games Designer A video game designer A game programmer is a Programmer who primarily develops Video games or related Software (such as Game development tools. Trilobyte was a computer game developer founded in December 1990 by Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros. The 7th Guest, published in 1993 by Virgin Games, is a video -based puzzle Computer game, not unlike The Fool's The 11th Hour is a 1995 puzzle Computer game with a horror setting id Software (ɪd officially is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Quake III Arena or Quake 3, abbreviated as Q3A or Q3, is a Multiplayer First-person shooter He was also Chairman of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) from 2002-2003. International Game Developers Association (IGDA is a professional society for video and Computer game developers worldwide One of Graeme's trademarks is his Scooby-Doo wardrobe[1]. A trademark or trade mark, represented by the symbols ™ and ®, or mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual Scooby-Doo is a long-running American animated series produced for Saturday morning television in several different versions from 1969 to the A wardrobe (sometimes called an " armoire " is a standing closet used for storing Clothes.
Biography
Devine was born in Glasgow, Scotland and began his career working on the TRS-80 at age 14 in the late 1970s. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. TRS-80 was Tandy Corporation 's desktop Microcomputer model line sold through Tandy's Radio Shack stores in the late 1970s and early He joined Atari at age 16 to port their classic game Pole Position to home computers, including the Commodore 64 and Apple IIe. Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. See also Software portability In Computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created Pole Position is a racing Video game released in 1982 by Namco. A home computer was a class of Personal computer entering the market in 1977 and becoming common during the 1980s The Apple IIe is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. He also worked for Lucasfilm's Games Division, Activision UK, and Virgin Interactive. Lucasfilm Limited' is an American Film production company founded by George Lucas in 1971, based in San Francisco California Activision Inc is an American Video game developer and publisher. Virgin Interactive was a successful and influential British Video game publisher.
Devine founded Trilobyte in December 1990 with Rob Landeros. Trilobyte was a computer game developer founded in December 1990 by Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros. He designed the original concept and was the lead programmer on the 1992 horror game The 7th Guest and its sequel The 11th Hour. The 7th Guest was a phenomenon, selling 2 million copies, and is credited (along with the game Myst) with encouraging the use of CD-ROM drives for games. Myst is a graphic adventure Video game designed and directed by the brothers Robyn and Rand Miller. CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable
After the demise of Trilobyte in the late 1990s, Devine joined id Software to work as a designer on Quake III Arena and Quake III Team Arena. Trilobyte was a computer game developer founded in December 1990 by Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros. At id he gained recognition in the Mac gaming community for supporting development on the platform. Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc He also worked on the Game Boy Advance versions of Commander Keen (2001), Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom II, and was programmer on Doom 3 until he moved to Ensemble in August 2003. The Game Boy Advance (often shortened to GBA) is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed manufactured and marketed by Nintendo. Doom II Hell on Earth is a First-person shooter Video game created by Id Software. Doom 3 is a Science fiction Survival horror Video game developed by Id Software and published by Activision. Devine is currently the Lead Designer on Halo Wars, an RTS for the Xbox 360. Halo Wars is an upcoming Real-time strategy Video game that will take place in the fictional Halo universe. The Xbox 360 is the second Video game console produced by Microsoft, and was developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI, and SiS. In February 2008 Devine was named one of the Top 100 Developers in the Video game Industry[2]. The video game industry (formally referred to as Interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development, Marketing
Devine is also one of the forefathers of file compression. The game 11th Hour made extensive use of movie footage, which required a great deal of disk space. Most games in the industry at that point were still shipping on floppy disks, which could only hold about 1 Megabyte of data each. A floppy disk is an increasingly Obsolete data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin flexible ("floppy" Magnetic storage medium encased 11th Hour used roomier CD technology, but there was still a limit to how many CDs could practically be used for a single game. File compression technology at the time, especially for videos which could run into hundreds of megabytes, was still in a primitive state. However, Devine innovated a way to compress movie files, so Trilobyte could fit two hours of footage, along with the game itself, onto only four CDs[1]. A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio
References
- ^ a b "Haunted Glory: The Rise and Fall of Trilobyte" from GameSpot
- ^ "THE NEXT-GEN HOT 100 DEVELOPERS 2008" from Next-Generation
External links
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