Richard Nalezynski
Moby ID: 99456
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Richard Nalezynski was excited about video games since his mom showed him Donkey Kong at the bowling alley. Soon after, Santa brought him an Atari 2600 and he was playing games ever since.
After spending years in school developing his skills in software engineering and animation, he put himself on the map with his first public project: the technoloG Bonus Pack, a mod project for the original Unreal Tournament.
Nalezynski broke into the video game industry as a programmer for the America's Army game project, built using the Unreal Engine. From there, he continued to use America's Army as a platform for serious games projects at Virtual Heroes. Feeling drawn back to games, he spent some time doing contract programming for several companies, again working with the latest Unreal technology.
Eventually Nalezynski found his home at Epic Games, where he focused on spreading the word about the Unreal Engine, as well as ensuring that licensees of Unreal technology received an outstanding support experience throughout their development cycle, via the Unreal Developer Network (UDN).
In 2010 Nalezynski quit his job at Epic Games to care for his sick mother. He passed away on March 12, 2017 due to kidney cancer.
Credited on 4 games
| Fat Princess (2009, PlayStation 3) | Epic Games Inc. |
| Gears of War 2 (Limited Edition) (2008, Xbox 360) | UDN Support Manager |
| Gears of War 2 (2008, Xbox 360) | UDN Support Manager |
| Unreal Tournament III (2007, Windows) | Special Thanks |
Frequent Collaborators
People- 4 games with Demond Rogers
- 4 games with Kenneth Spencer
- 4 games with Niklas Smedberg
- 4 games with Michael Spano
- 4 games with Michael V. Capps
- 4 games with James Golding
- 4 games with Andrew Scheidecker
- 4 games with Rod Fergusson
- 4 games with Joshua Markiewicz
- 4 games with Wesley Hunt
Companies
- 3 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 2 games with Soundelux Ltd.
- 2 games with Yingpei Games, Inc.
- 2 games with Xbox Game Studios
- 2 games with Microsoft Corporation
- 1 game with Psyonix, Inc.
- 1 game with Streamline Studios, B.V.
- 1 game with GameSpy Industries Inc.
- 1 game with GameQ GTO
- 1 game with Epic Games Tools LLC
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