Julian Lefay
aka:
J. LeFay
Moby ID: 6760
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Julian Lefay was born in Denmark Oct. 30, 1965. He began programming in Europe in the early 1980's and became known as one of the best Amstrad and Amiga programmers during Commodore's heyday. His programs have won numerous industry awards in every category.
While best known for games programming starting at an early age in Denmark, he was widely recognized as one of Europe’s best Amstrad and Amiga programmers. His reputation and expertise eventually lead to being courted by American games companies and his emigration to the United States. Julian initially worked for a small games company in Annapolis Maryland and then joined Bethesda in 1988 as a Programmer, eventually becoming Bethesda’s Chief Engineer in charge of all software development. During this time, he created a large number of computer games, most notably the internationally acclaimed Elder Scrolls role-playing series. He is often referred to as the "Father of the Elder Scrolls".
Lefay’s expertise spans a wide range of areas from applied statistics; natural language processing; digital signal processing and database management. He is a certified project manager (PMP) and most recently was a programmer and statistician at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where he helped oversee their database programming.
For relaxation, Julian has been coding the first deep syntax Greek parser.
Credited on 21 games
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - Game of the Year Edition (2003, Windows) | Special Thanks to |
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Collector's Edition) (2002, Windows) | Special Thanks to |
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002, Windows) | Special Thanks To |
The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard (1998, Windows) | Special Thanks To |
An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire (1997, DOS) | Lead Programming |
The Elder Scrolls: Chapter II - Daggerfall (1996, DOS) | Project Leader |
PBA Bowling (1995, Windows) | Programmer |
The Terminator: Future Shock (1995, DOS) | Special Thanks To |
The Elder Scrolls: Arena (1994, DOS) | Lead Programming |
Delta V (1994, DOS) | Special Thanks |
The Terminator 2029: Operation Scour (1993, DOS) | Chief Programmer |
Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3 (1992, DOS) | Music |
The Terminator 2029 (1992, DOS) | Chief Programmer |
Cyberblast (1992, Macintosh) | Very special thanks to the following people |
Where's Waldo? (1991, NES) | Music by |
Wayne Gretzky Hockey 2 (1991, DOS) | Programmers |
The Terminator (1991, DOS) | Director |
Sword of Sodan (1989, Amiga) | Conjury and Compositions by |
Dragon's Lair (1989, DOS) | IBM Version |
Zoom! (1988, Amiga) | Soundtracks |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 16 games with Christopher Weaver
- 13 games with Craig Walton
- 9 games with Ted Peterson
- 7 games with Peggy Meile
- 7 games with Todd Howard
- 7 games with Bruce Nesmith
- 6 games with Don Nalezyty
- 6 games with Mark K. Jones
- 6 games with Sheila McKisic
- 5 games with Kurt Kuhlmann
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Companies
- 17 games with Bethesda Softworks LLC
- 5 games with Ubisoft Entertainment SA
- 4 games with Avalon Interactive
- 3 games with GameStar GmbH
- 3 games with Virgin Interactive...
- 2 games with Playman s.r.o.
- 2 games with Ubisoft France SAS
- 2 games with Computec Media GmbH
- 2 games with CDP Sp. z o.o.
- 2 games with Discovery Software...
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