Dan Gorlin

Dan Gorlin (born March 15, 1954 ) is an American computer game developer. He is best known for the Choplifter game that was created in 1982 for the Apple II home computer .

Life

Gorlin became a computer game developer by chance. He lived in Los Angeles in the late 1970s and worked in the artificial intelligence field for the Rand Corporation . At that time he tried to sell his house and was busy for six months. To kill time, he borrowed an Apple II computer from his grandfather. With the computer he began to develop the game Choplifter . He finished the game in just six months. It was published by the publisher Brøderbund , for whom Gorlin subsequently developed other games as a freelancer, the games Airheart for the Apple II and Typhoon Thompson for the Commodore Amiga . After the Apple II was considered obsolete and MS-DOS -based computers achieved ever higher market shares, Gorlin lost interest in programming. After programming the Amiga version of Prince of Persia for Brøderbund , he worked for five years as a percussion and dance teacher.

With the advent of Windows 95 , he began to be interested in programming again. As head of software development at a small Californian development studio, he was responsible for a computer game for children in 1996. For Totally Games in 1999 he created 3D development tools for Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance . In 2012 he advised inXile Entertainment on the conception of a Choplifter remake for the then current hardware; At that time he was working full-time as a real estate agent.

Gorlin is director of the West African culture-focused music and dance ensemble Alokli in Philadelphia . He also works as a percussionist and percussion teacher.

Web links

• Dan Gorlin at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dadgum.com: Dan Gorlin. Retrieved March 18, 2018 . 
2. ↑ GiantBomb.com: Why Choplifter Creator Dan Gorlin Decided to Return to Games. Retrieved September 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Alokli.com: Who Are We? Retrieved March 18, 2018 .