Doug Church

Church at the 2005 Indie Game Jam .

Doug Church is an American computer game developer and producer.

Career

Church attended MIT in the late 1980s , but left it prematurely and took a position at the game developer Looking Glass Studios , who at the time mainly developed MS-DOS- based adventure games, shooters and computer role-playing games in first person view, including Ultima Underworld , Ultima Underworld II , System Shock and Dark Project: The Master Thief .

Church later worked as technical director for Eidos Interactive , where he brought his programming and design expertise to a large number of games from developer studios Ion Storm and Crystal Dynamics , including extensive design work on Tomb Raider: Legend . In 2005 he left Eidos to take up a position at Electronic Arts .

In 2003 Church received the Community Contribution Award as part of the Game Developers Choice Awards , among other things for his work as co-chair of the Educational Committee of the International Game Developers Association , on whose behalf he was responsible for establishing development contacts between the game industry and educational institutions. In this context, he took part in numerous indie game jams , for the first event of which he also developed the game prototype Angry God Bowling .

From July 2005 to 2009, Church worked for EA Los Angeles as a team leader on a project under the supervision of filmmaker Steven Spielberg . On March 17, 2011, Valve Corporation announced that Church had been hired in an unspecified position on an unannounced project.

Ludography

• Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (1992)
• Ultima Underworld II - Labyrinth of Worlds (1993)
• System Shock (1994)
• Flight Unlimited (1995)
• Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (1996)
• Flight Unlimited II (1997)
• Dark Project: The Master Thief (1998)
• System Shock 2 (1999)
• Flight Unlimited III (1999)
• Dark Project 2: The Metal Age (2000)
• FreQuency (2001)
• Deus Ex (Game of the Year Edition) (2001)
• Freedom Force (2002)
• Whiplash (2003)
• Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003)
• Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home (2003)
• Thief: Deadly Shadows (2004)
• Tomb Raider: Legend (2006)
• Portal 2 (2011)

Web links

• Doug Church at MobyGames (English)
• November 2004 Gamasutra Interview with Church
• "Formal Abstract Design Tools for Games" a notable early effort to develop a common language of game design methodology.

Individual evidence

1. ^ GameSpot : Steven Spielberg, EA ink three-game next-gen deal
2. ^ John Brownlee: System Shock creator Doug Church hired by Valve . In: Geek.com , March 17, 2011.