Gene Turnbow
Moby ID: 34690
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Gene Turnbow has experience in almost every aspect of game development and programming.
In 1990, he received a BA degree from UCLA's School of Motion Pictures and Television where his studies emphasized on production and screenwriting. After college, he held several computer animation positions with various firms.
In July 1995 he began work with The Dreamer's Guild and after only 4 months employment, was promoted to Scripting Supervisor and Personnel Manager in charge of all scripting activities for all games under development for the company. He was the Technical Director, programmer and Lead Level Designer for Faery Tale Adventure II: Halls of the Dead and Senior Programmer for Dinotopia.
One year later he began working for Sound Source Interactive (now TDK Mediactive). While with Sound Source, he attained the title of Senior Entertainment Programmer and is credited as a designer and programmer on Lost In Space: C.A.M.P.P. Blaster, Babylon 5: Shadow Wars and The Abyss: Incident at Europa.
After Sound Source, he worked in research and development on the LBE platform system for a short time before joining Hyper Entertainment Inc. (formerly a Sony company), where he stayed until July 2001. While at Hyper, he worked on HyperBowl (both the Arcade and Home versions) and the multiplayer game Quaternia.
Gene lives in Simi Valley, California, and now operates freelance under contract.
Credited on 5 games
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| HyperBowl Arcade Edition (2001, Windows) | QA Lead |
| Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II (1997, DOS) | Additional Programming |
| Babylon 5: Shadow Wars (1997, Windows) | Designer |
| An American Tail: Animated MovieBook (1997, Windows) | At Source Sound Interactive |
| Dinotopia (1995, DOS) | Programmer |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 2 games with Steve Jasper
- 2 games with Jhoneil Centeno
- 2 games with Lawrence Schwedler
- 2 games with James Phillipsen
- 2 games with David L. McLean
- 2 games with Evan Olson
- 2 games with Alex Sherman
- 2 games with Vincent J. Bitetti
- 2 games with Eugene Code
- 2 games with Tim Samoff
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Companies
- 2 games with Sound Source Interactive, Inc.
- 2 games with Dreamers Guild, The
- 1 game with SSI Distribution Services
- 1 game with WayForward Technologies, Inc.
- 1 game with Universal Studios LLC
- 1 game with Turner Interactive
- 1 game with Technicat, LLC
- 1 game with Hyper Entertainment
- 1 game with Encore, Inc.
- 1 game with Westermann Multimedia
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