| 词条 | Mike O'Brien (game developer) |
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|name = Mike O'Brien |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = |birth_place = |residence = |nationality = |education = |occupation = President of ArenaNet |years_active = |net_worth = |boards = |religion = |spouse = |children = |parents = |signature = |website = }}Mike O'Brien is the president and co-founder of ArenaNet and executive producer of its games Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2.[1] He led the design and content creation teams of the original Guild Wars.[2] Before co-founding ArenaNet, he worked as a company director and a lead programmer at Blizzard Entertainment where he developed the 3D rendering engine of Reign of Chaos and led the development of Battle.net. He also worked on Tides of Darkness, Diablo and StarCraft, where he, among other things, designed and created the MPQ archives used in all Blizzard games after Diablo. Mike O'Brien was featured as one of the most influential people in the computer and video game industry on PC Gamer's September 1999 cover story "Game Gods". O'Brien also previously developed an Apple II emulator for Windows, AppleWin, and old DOS ASCII game, Pyro 2. References1. ^{{cite journal|title=Studio Profile - ArenaNet|journal=Edge Magazine|date=September 2011|pages=132–135}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2010}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Obrien, Mike}}{{videogame-bio-stub}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17820122/ns/technology_and_science-games/t/guild-wars-experiment-worked|title='Guild Wars': An experiment that worked|last=Kalning|first=Kristin|date=28 March 2007|publisher=MSNBC|accessdate=12 August 2010}} 5 : Year of birth missing (living people)|Living people|Video game programmers|Video game designers|Place of birth missing (living people) |
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