Chris Taylor (game designer)
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Chris Taylor is a computer game designer and entrepreneur most famous for developing Total Annihilation and the Dungeon Siege series and for founding Gas Powered Games. In 2002, GameSpy named him the 30th most influential person in gaming.
Chris Taylor was born in British Columbia and started in the video game industry in the late 1980s at Distinctive Software in Burnaby. His first game was Hardball II released in 1989.
Taylor moved to Seattle, Washington in January 1996 when he joined Humongous Entertainment as the designer and project leader for the real-time strategy computer game Total Annihilation and its first expansion, The Core Contingency.
He founded Gas Powered Games in May 1998 and designed the action-role-playing game Dungeon Siege. As of 2004, they are working on Dungeon Siege II.
In the August 2005 edition of PC Gamer, it was announced that Gas Powered Games is developing Supreme Commander; Chris's first RTS game since 1997. It is described as the spiritual successor to Total Annihilation as Atari still owns the rights to the TA name.
References
- "GameSpy's 30 Most Influential People in Gaming" (http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/march02/top30/). March 2002. GameSpy.
- "Gas Powered Games Interview - Part 1" (http://www.pcgameworld.com/article.php/id/132/). September 24, 2003. PC Gameworld.
External link
- Chris Taylor (http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId=88481/) entry at MobyGames