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Robert Woodhead. Robert J. Woodhead is an American entrepreneur, software engineer and former game programmer. He is the co-creator of the Wizardry franchise, and the co-founder of both the video game publishing company Sir-Tech and anime licensing company AnimEigo . He claims that a common thread in his career is "doing weird things with ...
- 1958 or 1959 (age 64–65)
May 22, 2023 · Robert is the co-author of Wizardry, one of the first computer “dungeon” games, and so has been known as “Trebor the Mad Overlord” since 1980. Anyone else using the name “Trebor” on the internet is an imposter and will be visited by his Ninja Death Squad.
Feb 1, 2013 · Woodhead shares his thoughts on the new MMO version of his groundbreaking eighties RPG and the future of emergent gameplay in MMOs. Part 5: The Wider World of Woodhead. Woodhead talks about his role as a player ambassador for EVE Online, the possibility of getting back into game design and the time he worked in Hollywood.
Robert Kerr, 1st Earl of Ancram by Jan Lievens. Robert Kerr, 1st Earl of Ancram (c. 1578–1654), was a Scottish nobleman, politician and writer. Biography. He descended from a third son of Sir Andrew Kerr of Ferniehurst, and was laird of Ancrum in Roxburghshire. His father was William Kerr of Ancrum and his mother was Margaret Dundas, a ...
Oct 31, 2022 · In 1981, Sir-Tech, the brainchild of the Sirotek brothers and engineer Robert Woodhead, released their first Wizardry game: Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. The original PC release ...
Feb 1, 2013 · Robert Woodhead:Andy and I were both at Cornell, and avid users of the PLATO system (which basically invented everything you love about the internet, including multiplayer games, in the early 70s). I had to take a year off because of low grades (too much PLATO, not enough studying) and during that year, was writing computer games.
Star Maze. Star Maze is a space-themed shooter taking place in a multidirectional scrolling maze published by Sir-Tech in 1982. It was written by Canadian programmer Gordon Eastman for the Apple II, based on a design by Robert Woodhead. [3] Versions for the Atari 8-bit computers [1] and Commodore 64 [4] followed in 1983.
- Eastman Computing
- Robert Woodhead
- 1982: Apple, 1983: Atari, C64
- Sir-Tech
