Arjan Brussee (born 1972) is a Dutch video game programmer and entrepreneur. He was the main coder of the first two '' Jazz Jackrabbit'' games and co-founded Guerrilla Games and Boss Key Productions. He is often credited with being the first successful Dutch game developer.

Career

Brussee was a member of the demoscene group Ultra Force, where he coded ''Vectordemo'', one of the first demos with 3D imagery on IBM PC compatibles. At Guerrilla Games, he worked on the '' Killzone'' series as a development director and part of the management team. On 23 February 2012, Brussee announced that he was leaving Guerilla to join the EA Games studio Visceral Games as an executive producer for ''

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''. In July 2014, news leaked of Brussee leaving EA and co-founding Boss Key Productions with Cliff Bleszinski. In December 2017, Brussee left Boss Key Productions to return to

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after a 20-year hiatus from the company. Since rejoining

, Brussee has been working on an unannounced project.

References

1972 births Living people Demosceners Video game programmers Dutch computer programmers {{videogame-bio-stub