Jeff StrainDeveloper BIO
Jeff Strain was the team lead and lead programmer of
Blizzard's massively multiplayer role-playing game,
World of Warcraft. He was also a senior programmer on both
Warcraft III and
StarCraft, and a programmer on
Diablo. Jeff was the creator of the StarCraft Campaign Editor and was employed at Blizzard for four years.
In March, 2000, he founded
ArenaNet with
Pat Wyatt and
Mike O'Brien. He then worked as a programmer for the company.
On 10th September 2008 it was announced Strain would become President of Product Development of the newly-formed
NCsoft West when ArenaNet was consolidated along with other NCsoft subsidiaries under a single label.
In August 2009 he left the company to establish his own development studio
Undead Labs. The formation was announced in November 2009.
Websites
Games Credited
- Aion (2009), NCsoft West
- Guild Wars: Eye of the North (2007), NCsoft Europe Ltd.
- Guild Wars: Factions (2006), NCsoft Europe Ltd.
- Guild Wars: Nightfall (2006), NCsoft Europe Ltd.
- Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (2001), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- Diablo II (2000), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- Diablo II (Collector's Edition) (2000), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- StarCraft 64 (2000), Nintendo of America Inc.
- StarCraft (1998), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- StarCraft: Brood War (1998), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- Diablo (1996), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
