Paul Murphy
Moby ID: 3484
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An industry veteran since 1984, Paul was a design consultant for two years before coming to Firaxis full-time in 2003. He left the company in July 2010 and is now a Senior Game Designer at Zynga Games.
Paul has designed games for virtually every medium imaginable − paper roleplaying games, paper board-games, miniatures games, live-action roleplaying games, video games, online games, and CD-based computer games.
Pre-Firaxis, Paul worked at Victory Games, West End Games, Games Workshop, MicroProse, Magnet Interactive Studios, and America Online. At AOL, Paul was Director of Programming for the Games Channel.
Computer Game Credits: Pirates! Gold; Pirates! Gold for Sega; Civilization; Sea Rogue; Task Force 1942; Icebreaker; Wings over Europe; MetaSquares; Slingo!; Warcraft; Magestorm; Splatterball; Chess; (plus dozens of additional titles published while he was AOL Games' Director of Programming); Sid Meier's Civilization III; Sid Meier's Pirates!; Sid Meier's Pirates! for Xbox; Sid Meier's Civilization IV. Paper and Board Game Credits: Too many to list, but including Ambush! Purple Heart; James Bond RPG supplements; Paranoia 2nd Edition RPG rules and supplements; Ghostbusters RPG rules and supplements, Star Wars RPG rules and supplements, Star Wars: Assault on Hoth; Star Wars Miniatures Battles; Warcraft supplements; Space Hulk.
Credited on 28 games
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 18 games with Sid Meier
- 16 games with Barry Caudill
- 16 games with Kelley Gilmore
- 14 games with Mark Cromer
- 14 games with Jerome J. Atherholt
- 13 games with Grant Frazier
- 13 games with Michael Curran
- 13 games with Timothy McCracken
- 12 games with Dorian Rehfield
- 12 games with Christoph Hartmann
Companies
- 13 games with Firaxis Games, Inc.
- 13 games with 2K Games, Inc.
- 11 games with Valve Corporation
- 10 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 7 games with GameSpy Industries Inc.
- 7 games with Atari Interactive, Inc.
- 7 games with MicroProse Software, Inc.
- 7 games with 1C Company
- 7 games with Take Two Interactive Italia Srl
- 7 games with Take Two Interactive GmbH
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