Rob Landeros is a

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and

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. Together with

Graeme Devine Graeme Devine is a computer game designer and programmer who co-founded Trilobyte, created bestselling games ''The 7th Guest'' and '' The 11th Hour'', and helped design id Software's '' Quake III Arena''. He was Chairman of the International ...

, he co-founded Trilobyte, where he created the highly commercially successful games ''

The 7th Guest ''The 7th Guest'' is an interactive movie puzzle adventure game, produced by Trilobyte and originally released by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in April 1993. It is one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. ''The ...

'' and '' The 11th Hour''. After leaving Trilobyte, he co-founded

Aftermath Media Aftermath Media is a multimedia company based in Ashland, Oregon. It was founded by Rob Landeros and David Wheeler in 1997. Background Both Landeros and Wheeler had previously worked at Trilobyte, makers of the bestselling CD-ROM computer game ...

, where he released the interactive movies '' Tender Loving Care'' and ''

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''.

Biography

Landeros was born and raised in

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. Prior to becoming involved in the computer gaming industry, he worked as an artist in more traditional media between the late 1960s and early 1980s. Amongst other art forms, he drew underground

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and carved

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."Haunted Glory: The Rise and Fall of Trilobyte"
from

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. Landeros began his career in computer games in the late 1980s, first working as the Art Director for

Cinemaware Cinemaware was a video game developer and publisher that released several titles in the 1980s based on various film themes. The company was resurrected in 2000, before being acquired by eGames in 2005. Cinemaware Corp. (1986–1991) The comp ...

, where he worked on games such as ''

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'' and '' S.D.I.''. In 1991 he began working at

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, where he would meet Graeme Devine, with whom he would partner to form Trilobyte.MobyGames Developer Bio: Rob Landeros
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. Landeros and Devine enjoyed success at Trilobyte with their groundbreaking CD-ROM game ''The 7th Guest'', which sold over 2 million copies.

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called ''The 7th Guest'' "the new standard in interactive entertainment."Wolf, Mark J.P. (200
''The video game explosion: a history from PONG to Playstation and beyond''
Greenwood, page 129. . After leaving Trilobyte, Landeros co-founded Aftermath Media. In 1999, the company released the interactive movie ''Tender Loving Care''. It was followed in 2001 by ''P.O.V.: Point of View''. On April 17, 2001 four chapters of ''Point of View'' were streamed over the Internet to promote the DVD. Landeros currently runs his own graphic design business. In 2010 he re-launched Trilobyte who are working on re-releasing versions of its classic games, including ''The 7th Guest'', ''The 11th Hour'', for use on iPhone and

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. The company is also working on new titles for these devices.

References

External links

Trilobyte Games

Aftermath Media

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Landeros, Rob American video game designers Living people People from Redlands, California Year of birth missing (living people) Video game artists