Cevat Yerli (born 1978 in

Coburg Coburg () is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution of 1918, it ...

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to Turkish immigrants from Giresun) is a computer game developer. He co-founded

Crytek Crytek GmbH is a German video game developer and software developer based in Frankfurt. Founded by the Yerli brothers in Coburg in 1999 and moved to Frankfurt in 2006, Crytek also operates further studios in Kyiv, Ukraine and Istanbul, Turkey. ...

, one of the largest video game developers in Germany, and served as its CEO and President until February 2018.

Crytek

Yerli founded

in 1997 and formally turned it into a company in 1999. His brothers, Faruk and Avni, joined Crytek in 2000 and 2001, respectively. The company developed games such as ''

Far Cry ''Far Cry'' is an anthology franchise of first-person shooter games, all of which have been published by Ubisoft. The first game, '' Far Cry'', was developed by Crytek to premiere their CryEngine software, and released in March 2004. Subsequen ...

'' and the ''Crysis'' series. Yerli was the director and executive producer on nearly all games until stepping down on the 28th of February 2018.

Games created

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yerli 1978 births German video game designers Living people People from Giresun Turkish designers Turkish emigrants to Germany German people of Turkish descent