Tycho
Wanna-Be Webmaster
Joined: 17 May 2003
Posts: 1041
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:11 pm |
I recently had a chance to talk to Randy Pitchford who is the President of Gearbox Software. I met Randy this past summer at Microsoft's Halo Fanstock in Dallas, TX. Several Halo Fansite webmasters and myself had a chance to eat dinner with him while we were down there. I didn't know that he had worked on Duke Nukem 3d and several other big name projects before he founded Gearbox. Here is a small sample.
How did you break into the gaming biz?
My father put me in front of computers most of my life. He taught me CP/M and how to program in Basic when I was in fourth and fifth grade. I immediately started using what I was learning to make games – simple ones at first. This kind of behavior continued mostly as an obsessive hobby that captured time from the other things I did things, like go to school. My first industry job was with 3dRealms – working on Duke. That was a crazy time in this business…
A definitely good read for those of you that are interested in Halo PC. So head on over and check the rest of the interview out! |
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