Julian Eggebrecht is a German

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businessman. He is notable for having been one of the founding members and creative director of

Factor 5 Factor 5 GmbH is an independent software and video game developer. The company was co-founded by five former Rainbow Arts employees in 1987 in Cologne, Germany, which served as the inspiration behind the studio's name. In order to have a s ...

, a German-American game development company.

Career

Eggebrecht co-founded Factor 5 in

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in 1987 and moved the company to

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in 1996 for the purpose of closer working with its largest partner,

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. He was key in Factor 5 becoming Nintendo's technology partner, supplying the Nintendo 64 audio development software; and in the fundamental development of the GameCube and Wii

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hardware and software. He was a member of the

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PS3 Edge toolset group. He led Factor 5's teams to pioneer many technological advancements in video game audiovisual technology such as MusyX (originally called MOsys FX Surround), with collaboration with

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, and

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(then known as ATI). His games include the ''

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'' and '' Star Wars Rogue Squadron'' series, '' Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures'', and ports of ''

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'' and '' Contra III: The Alien Wars''. He also served on the board of the

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of the

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. Between 1993 and 2000, he was a freelancer for the German version of the video game magazine ''

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''. At the 2007

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Developers Conference, Eggebrecht criticized the

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for random processing in the guidelines to the development of ''Lair'', and called for improvement to the system. Factor 5 closed in 2008 due to financial issues. In 2010, Eggebrecht and other former Factor 5 employees founded the mobile game studio TouchFactor. Factor 5 was resurrected in 2017, and it reacquired the rights to the ''Turrican'' franchise. In 2019 Eggebrecht joined Epic Games as Director of Online Technology.

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