Mike Sellers
Moby ID: 47496
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Mike Sellers, Chief Alchemist, Online Alchemy. Mike has been designing and developing multiplayer games since 1994. In that year he co-founded Archetype Interactive (later acquired by 3DO) with his brother Steve, and there was President and Lead Designer on Meridian 59, the first 3D massively multiplayer online game (MMOG). In 1997 he co-founded The Big Network (later acquired by eUniverse) and led the design for MyPlace, one of the first family-oriented social networking sites. He has since led designs on SimCity Online, The Sims 2, and Ultima Online 2.0. In 2002 he founded Online Alchemy in Austin, Texas, and is currently working on a next-generation MMOG based on proprietary advanced artificial intelligence software, developed under contract with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Mike is on the Advisory Board for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and has written extensively on MMOG design and production. He has a BS in Cognitive Science, has a professional background in software engineering and user interface design, and has done graduate and industrial work in artificial intelligence.
Credits
| Defense Grid: The Awakening (2008, Windows) | Also Including |
| Silencer (1998, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Meridian 59 (1996, Windows) | Lead Design |
Frequent Collaborators
People- 1 game with Byron Hummel
- 1 game with Noel Wade
- 1 game with Drew Angeloff
- 1 game with Damon Berry
- 1 game with Karri Scott
- 1 game with David Edwards
- 1 game with Juan Carlos Bagnell
- 1 game with Frederik Langolis
- 1 game with Fernando Formariz Esteban
- 1 game with Bridget Agabra
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Companies
- 2 games with Valve Corporation
- 1 game with Hidden Path Entertainment, Inc.
- 1 game with Archetype Interactive Corp.
- 1 game with Studio 3DO
- 1 game with Aspyr Media, Inc.
- 1 game with 3DO Company, The
- 1 game with Near Death Studios, Inc.
- 1 game with Keywords Studios...
- 1 game with Epic Games, Inc.
- 1 game with Emergent Game Technologies
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