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George Ziets
George Ziets is an American video game designer best known as the Creative Lead for the 2007 PC game '' Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer''. Early life and education Ziets earned a degree in Psychology from Georgetown University and spent the late 1990s in graduate school. He studied psychology and film, earning an MA from the University of Maryland in 1999. In 2001, he secured his first games industry job at Westwood Studios, working as a writer on the short-lived science fiction MMORPG ''Earth & Beyond''. Career In 2004, Ziets was hired at Turbine, Inc. and was credited as a designer on '' Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar'' (''LOTRO'') and ''Dungeons & Dragons Online'' (''DDO''). Ziets relocated to southern California in 2006 to become a designer at Obsidian Entertainment. He was recruited during development of '' Neverwinter Nights 2'', and after the game shipped he was promoted to Creative Lead on the first ''Neverwinter Night 2'' expansion, ''Mask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mask Of The Betrayer
''Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer'' is a role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Atari Interactive. It is an expansion pack for '' Neverwinter Nights 2''. It was released in Autumn 2007 for the PC in North America, Europe, and Australia. Like the first game, ''Mask of the Betrayer'' is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the fantasy tabletop role-playing game '' Dungeons & Dragons'' and employs the 3.5 edition rules. ''Mask of the Betrayer'' continues the story of ''Neverwinter Nights 2'' by following the main character, the Shard-bearer, who is afflicted by a curse that requires the devouring of spirits (and occasionally souls) to survive, and the character's quest to determine the nature of the curse. The game takes place in two nations of the Forgotten Realms, Rashemen and Thay, which are considered part of Faerûn's "Unapproachable East". The expansion received generally favorable reviews upon its rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neverwinter Nights 2
''Neverwinter Nights 2'' is a role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Atari Interactive. It is the sequel to BioWare's ''Neverwinter Nights (2002 video game), Neverwinter Nights'', based on the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy tabletop role-playing game. ''Neverwinter Nights 2'' utilizes an adaptation of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Dungeons & Dragons v3.5, 3.5 edition rules. Players create player characters to represent themselves in the game, using the same character creation rules as found in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game. They may gain the assistance of additional Party (role-playing games), party members, and they eventually acquire a keep that can be used as a base of operations. ''Neverwinter Nights 2'' is set in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings, campaign setting—in and around the city of Neverwinter. The story is mostly unrelated to ''Neverwinter Nights'' and follows the journey o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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American Video Game Designers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
InXile
inXile Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Tustin, California. Specializing in role-playing video games, inXile was founded in 2002 by Interplay co-founder Brian Fargo. The studio produced the fantasy games ''The Bard's Tale'' and '' Hunted: The Demon's Forge'', along with various games for Flash and iOS such as '' Fantastic Contraption'' in its first decade of development. In 2012, inXile released the post-apocalyptic game ''Wasteland 2'', following a successful Kickstarter campaign. Following the game's critical success, the studio went on to raise a then-record US$4 million on Kickstarter to develop '' Torment: Tides of Numenera'', a spiritual successor to Interplay's '' Planescape: Torment''. inXile has since finished developing ''Wasteland 3''. History inXile Entertainment was founded on October 26, 2002, by Brian Fargo in Newport Beach, California. In an interview with Joystiq, inXile's President Matthew F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of America, West
The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. It was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, including the Screen Writers Guild. It has around 20,000 members. History The Screen Writers Guild (SWG) was formed in 1921 by a group of ten screenwriters in Hollywood angered over wage reductions announced by the major film studios. The group affiliated with the Authors Guild in 1933 and began representing TV writers in 1948. In 1954, the SWG was one of five groups who merged to represent professional writers on both coasts and became the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAe) and West (WGAw). Howard J. Green and John Howard Lawson were the first two presidents during the SWG era. Daniel Taradash was president of the WGAw from 1977 to 1979. In 1952, the Guild authorized movie studios to delete onscreen credits for any writers who had not been cleared by Congress, as part of the industry's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Vegas
''Fallout: New Vegas'' is a 2010 action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was announced in April 2009 and released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on October 19, 2010. A spin-off of the main '' Fallout'' series, the game is set in a post-apocalyptic open world environment that encompasses a region consisting of parts of Arizona, California, and Nevada. It is set in a world that deviated onto an alternate timeline thanks to Atomic Age technology, which eventually led to a global nuclear apocalypse in the year 2077 in an event referred to as "The Great War", caused by a major conflict between the U.S. and China over natural resources. The main story of ''New Vegas'' takes place in the year 2281, four years after the events of ''Fallout 3'' and 204 years after the bombs fell. It is not a direct sequel, but does feature the return of several elements found in ''Fallout 2''. Players take control o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
