His Civilization series has had fundamental in?¬‚ uence on the
genre of PC strategy games. His game Sid Meier??™s Pirates! was an innovative mix of genres??”action, adventure,
and roleplaying??”that also blended real time and turn-based gaming. His gameplay ideas have been
adopted in countless PC games. Meier??™s other titles include Colonization, Sid Meier??™s Ge ysburg!, Alpha
Centauri, and Silent Serv.
Warren Spector
Warren Spector started his career working for board game maker Steve Jackson Games in Austin, Texas.
He went from there to the paper-based role-playing game company TSR, where he developed board games
and wrote RPG supplements and several novels. In 1989 he was ready to add digital games to his portfolio
and moved to the developer Origin Systems. There he worked on the Ultima series with Richard Garrio .
Spector had an intense interest in integrating characters and stories into games. He pioneered ???free-form???
gameplay with a series of innovative titles including Underworld, System Shock, and Thief. His title Deus Ex
took the concepts of ?¬‚ exible play and drama in games to new heights and is considered one of the ?¬? nest PC
games of all time.
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