Glen Wolfram
Moby ID: 24365
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Started gaming while an electrical engineering student at the University of Wisconsin, 1981-1986. Created an HO racetrack sensor system that displayed a first person perspective of the car's current position on a graphical display. Made a head-to-head cribbage game, featuring a 121 LED display board. After graduating, worked at Nuvatec in Chicago making an operating system and bowling games for the Brunswick Bowlervision system.
Moving on to Incredible Technologies, in 1989, he designed and programmed Grave Yardage (PC) and Hot-Shots Tennis (stand-up arcade). In addition he helped program Harley Games (PC), and the Jeep Simulator (proprietary hardware).
Jumping to the left coast in 1991, he joined Dynamix where he worked on Aces of the Pacific and Aces Over Europe. He was the lead shell (league management, statistics, etc.) programmer for the Front Page Sports line during its heyday: Front Page Sports Football, Pro '95, Pro '96, Pro '97 and Pro '98. Baseball Pro '94 and '96. He was project manager for the resurgent Baseball Pro '98. He then migrated back over the flight simulation department where he worked on Pro Pilot, Pro Pilot '98 and then managed Kid Pilot.
He is currently an independent contractor and instructor for The Learning Tree, where he shares all of his knowledge of object-oriented technology and UML.
His last projects have been with Tesseraction Games and their Enigma naval simulation series.
Credited on 16 games
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Enigma: Rising Tide (Gold Edition) (2005, Windows) | Security, Installation and Patcher |
Enigma: Rising Tide (2003, Windows) | Security, Installation and Patcher Programming |
Kid Pilot (1998, Windows) | Director |
Sierra Pro Pilot 98: The Complete Flight Simulator (1997, Windows) | Programmers |
Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '98 (1997, Windows) | Director |
Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '96 Season (1996, Windows 16-bit) | Front Office Programmer |
Front Page Sports: Football Pro '97 (1996, Windows) | Shell and Stats Programmers |
Front Page Sports: Football Pro '96 Season (1995, DOS) | Shell & Stats Programming |
Front Page Sports: Football Pro '95 (1994, DOS) | Shell and Stats Programming |
Front Page Sports: Baseball '94 (1994, DOS) | Lead Shell Programmer |
Front Page Sports: Football Pro (1993, DOS) | Shell and Stats Programming |
Front Page Sports: Football (1992, DOS) | Shell Programmer |
Aces of the Pacific (1992, DOS) | Software Technology Engineers |
Hot Shots Tennis (1990, Arcade) | Programmers |
Harley-Davidson: The Road to Sturgis (1989, DOS) | Programming |
Grave Yardage (1989, DOS) | Design |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 9 games with David Aughenbaugh
- 9 games with Ron Clayborn
- 9 games with David McClurg
- 9 games with David Merrill
- 9 games with Scott Youngblood
- 8 games with Patrick Cook
- 8 games with Vance Naegle
- 8 games with Thomas Van Velkinburgh
- 8 games with Stephen Cordon
- 8 games with Christopher K. Singleton
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Companies
- 11 games with Dynamix, Inc.
- 8 games with Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
- 3 games with Incredible Technologies, Inc.
- 2 games with Tesseraction Games, Inc.
- 2 games with DreamCatcher Interactive Inc.
- 1 game with Loudmouth, Inc.
- 1 game with Activision Blizzard...
- 1 game with Analog Devices Inc.
- 1 game with subLOGIC
- 1 game with Stats Perform
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