Daniel Cermak
aka:
Dan Cermak,
Dan Cermack
Moby ID: 6391
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Dan Cermak bought his first computer when $2,500 would get you 24K of RAM - yes, 24K. A self taught programmer, Dan spent seven years trying to write games and only completed and shipped two titles. So instead, he decided to try working for the “enemy” - a publisher (Strategic Simulations Inc.). Cermak worked on almost every genre of product in just about every production position possible. After eleven years SSI was bought and sold and bought and sold and a really good thing was gone. Cermak left the west coast to work with friends at Westwood Studios, where he was the executive producer on Command & Conquer: Renegade. The studio was closed a year later, after which decided to try the Midwest and Volition. In 2009 he became vice president of product development of the studio, and in May 2011 it was announced he would become president of the company, when founder Michael Kulas stepped down after eighteen years. On 27 September 2017, Cermak was one of over 30 people who were laid off from Volition following the unsatisfactory fiscal performance of Agents of Mayhem.
Credited on 53 games
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| Red Faction: Guerrilla - Re-Mars-tered (2018, Windows) | Vice President of Development |
| Agents of Mayhem (2017, Windows) | General Manager |
| Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell (2015, Windows) | General Manager |
| Saints Row IV (2013, Windows) | General Manager |
| Saints Row: The Third (2011, Xbox 360) | General Manager |
| Red Faction: Armageddon (2011, Windows) | Vice President of Development |
| Red Faction: Guerrilla (2009, Xbox 360) | Vice President of Development |
| Saints Row 2 (2009, Windows) | VP of Development |
| Star Wars: Empire at War - Forces of Corruption (2006, Windows) | Petroglyph Special Thanks |
| Saints Row (2006, Xbox 360) | VP Development |
| Evil Dead: Regeneration (2005, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| The Punisher (2005, Windows) | VP of Product Development |
| Gary Grigsby's World at War (2005, Windows) | Playtesters |
| Command & Conquer: Renegade (2002, Windows) | Executive Producers (Management) |
| Championship Surfer (2000, Dreamcast) | Special Thanks! |
| Panzer General III: Scorched Earth (2000, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Panzer General 3D Assault (1999, Windows) | Executive Producer |
| Close Combat: The Battle of the Bulge (1999, Windows) | Sr. VP of Development |
| Fighting Steel: World War II Surface Combat 1939-1942 (1999, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Imperialism II: The Age of Exploration (1999, Windows) | Senior V.P. of Development |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 24 games with David Boudreau
- 20 games with Rick E. White
- 18 games with Mark Whisler
- 18 games with Charles J. Kroegel Jr.
- 16 games with Michael Hawkins
- 15 games with Bret Berry
- 15 games with Cyrus G. Harris
- 14 games with Glen A. Cureton
- 13 games with Jason Ray
- 13 games with Jacques Hennequet
Companies
- 34 games with Strategic Simulations, Inc.
- 17 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 12 games with Mindscape SA
- 11 games with Louis Saekow Design LLC
- 10 games with Deep Silver Volition, LLC
- 10 games with Mindscape International GmbH
- 9 games with GOG Limited
- 8 games with Mindscape International Ltd.
- 8 games with Valve Corporation
- 7 games with THQ Inc.
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