Charlie Cleveland
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Charlie Cleveland (b. 1973) is a San Francisco based video game designer and programmer. He has been working on his own PC games and professionally for other companies for over a decade.
Charlie has worked on many types of action and strategy games. He was a game programmer on Stainless Steel Studios' successful Empire Earth (1.8 million copies sold), a key member of the small team at CogniToy on the critically-acclaimed MindRover (5/5 Next Generation, 89% PC Gamer), and was the sole programmer, game designer and team lead on Natural Selection.
He directed all aspects of production on Natural Selection, including art design, sound design, game world creation, level design, scheduling, website and public relations. He has also done extensive ongoing work in game balance, usability, community development and support for organized play. Charlie is active in the game development community, and has been an organizer of the Boston IGDA chapter, a GDC attendee for the past eight years, and as a contributor to Game Developer Magazine and other publications.
In May 2001 Charlie founded Unknown Worlds Entertainment in downtown San Francisco, California.
Credited on 11 games
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| Saturnalia (2022, Windows) | Santa Ragione Special Thanks |
| Subnautica: Below Zero (2019, Windows) | Studio Creative Director |
| Hob (2017, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Darkest Dungeon (2015, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Subnautica (2014, Windows) | Game Director |
| The Long Dark (2014, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Natural Selection II (2012, Windows) | Co-founders |
| Cogs (2009, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, Windows) | Unknown Worlds |
| Empire Earth (2001, Windows) | Programmers |
| MindRover: The Europa Project (2001, Linux) | Game Programmer |
[ full credits ]
Charlie at Unknown Worlds Entertainment (2005)
Frequent Collaborators
People- 4 games with Cory Strader
- 4 games with Max McGuire
- 3 games with Sylvain Hel
- 3 games with Liam Tart
- 3 games with Brian Cummings
- 3 games with Michael Schouten
- 3 games with Hugh Jeremy
- 3 games with Brandt Wojak
- 3 games with Andreas Urwalek
- 3 games with Lee Brunjes
Companies
- 7 games with Valve Corporation
- 4 games with Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc.
- 4 games with Unity Technologies ApS
- 4 games with Firelight Technologies Pty. Ltd.
- 4 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 2 games with Fox3D Entertainment OU
- 2 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 2 games with Panic Button, LLC
- 2 games with Power Up Audio Inc.
- 2 games with Shenzhen Tencent Computer...
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