Patrick Wyatt
aka:
Pat Wyatt
Moby ID: 1019
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Patrick Wyatt was previously Blizzard Entertainment's Vice President of Research and Development and the company's second employee.
He was most recently the team lead and lead programmer of Battle.net. Previously, Pat was a senior programmer on both StarCraft and Diablo, and wrote the multiplayer code for both games. He was also a producer and senior programmer on Warcraft II, for which he wrote both the networking and multiplayer code, and producer and lead programmer for Warcraft I. Pat also worked on Lost Vikings, Battle Chess, Rock and Roll Racing, Death and Return of Superman and Justice League Task Force. Pat was employed at Blizzard more than eight years.
In March, 2000, he founded ArenaNet with Mike O'Brien and Jeff Strain. He then worked as a programmer for the company.
On 10th September 2008 it was announced Wyatt would become CTO of the newly-formed NCsoft West when ArenaNet was consolidated along with other NCsoft subsidiaries under a single label.
Credited on 37 games
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| New World (2021, Windows) | Additional Engineering |
| Crucible (2020, Windows) | Senior Principal Engineer |
| Tera (2018, PlayStation 4) | Special Thanks to |
| Fat Princess: Adventures (2015, PlayStation 4) | Special Thanks |
| AirMech (2015, Xbox One) | Special Thanks |
| State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition (2015, Windows) | Programming |
| State of Decay: Lifeline (2014, Windows) | Programming |
| Escape Plan (2013, PlayStation 4) | Special Thanks |
| State of Decay (2013, Xbox 360) | Special Thanks |
| Guild Wars 2 (2012, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Diablo III (2012, Macintosh) | Team special thanks |
| Aion (2009, Windows) | Executive Team |
| Guild Wars: Eye of the North (2007, Windows) | Executive Producers |
| Guild Wars: Nightfall (2006, Windows) | Executive Producers |
| Guild Wars: Factions (2006, Windows) | ArenaNet Executive Producers |
| Guild Wars (2005, Windows) | Executive Producers |
| WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002, Macintosh) | Our thanks to |
| Diablo II (2000, Macintosh) | Battle.net & Realm Programming |
| Diablo II (Collector's Edition) (2000, Windows) | Battle.net & Realm Programming |
| StarCraft 64 (2000, Nintendo 64) | Starcraft 64 Strike Team |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 20 games with Michael Morhaime
- 20 games with Joeyray Hall
- 19 games with Sam Didier
- 19 games with Allen Adham
- 18 games with Jeff Strain
- 17 games with Glenn Stafford
- 16 games with Bill Roper
- 16 games with Frank Pearce Jr.
- 15 games with Chris Metzen
- 15 games with Brian Love
Companies
- 21 games with Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- 9 games with Valve Corporation
- 8 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 7 games with Interplay Entertainment Corp.
- 7 games with CDP Sp. z o.o.
- 6 games with NCsoft Europe Ltd.
- 6 games with Activision Blizzard...
- 5 games with NCsoft Corporation
- 5 games with ArenaNet, LLC
- 5 games with Vivendi Games (UK) Limited
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