George Broussard is an American

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and

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, one of the creators of the '' Duke Nukem'' series ( Todd Replogle, Allen Blum, and Scott Miller being the others). Broussard released his early games under the name Micro F/X. In 1991, Broussard partnered with Scott Miller as co-owner of

Apogee Software 3D Realms Entertainment ApS is a video game publisher based in Aalborg, Denmark. Scott Miller founded the company in his parents' home in Garland, Texas, in 1987 as Apogee Software Productions to release his game '' Kingdom of Kroz''. In the ...

. Broussard is perhaps best known for his 12+ year development with many hurdles of '' Duke Nukem Forever'' as the lead project manager, before he asked

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to take over, which ultimately finished the project. The 3D Realms website notes that he is probably the only person in the industry to have misspelled his own name (as "Broussad") on a shareware title he created on his own, ''

Pharaoh's Tomb ''Pharaoh's Tomb'' is an MS-DOS platform game created by George Broussard (misspelled as "Broussad") and published by Apogee Software. The game uses CGA graphics based on the FAST (Fluid Animation Software Technology) engine. Notoriously, obje ...

''. In 2013, Broussard competed in the indie game competition

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with ''The Road'', a side-scrolling browser game that reflects on the futility of existence. Broussard suffered a minor stroke in May 2014 and recovered quickly.

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