14 Facts About Alex Seropian

Alexander Seropian was born on 1969 and is an American video game developer, one of the initial founders and later president of Bungie, the developer of the Marathon, Myth, and Halo video game series.

In 2004, Alex Seropian left Bungie and created Wideload Games, with the goal of streamlining game development.

Alex Seropian attended the University of Chicago, and joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, where he met one of his future colleagues Jason Jones.

Interested in computer programming, Alex Seropian was pursuing a mathematics degree with a concentration in computer science as the Department of Computer Science did not offer undergraduate degrees at the time.

Alex Seropian graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics.

Alex Seropian's father advised him to take a job to get experience, but the next day Alex Seropian decided to found his own company.

Alex Seropian sold 2,500 copies of the game, assembling the game boxes and mailing them out from his bedroom.

For Halo: Combat Evolved, Alex Seropian noted that the company had to incorporate new features such as surround sound and cinematics.

Alex Seropian left Bungie in 2002 to spend time with his new family, but due to frustrations with the game development process.

Alex Seropian founded his own studio in 2004 called Wideload Games, intended to be more streamlined than most video game studios.

Alex Seropian said that the idea came from figuring out that his decade-old assumptions about how to make games did not necessarily apply to the future.

Alex Seropian turned to the film industry for cues, saying that it helped to look at an older industry that had been solving the same types of problems for a longer period than video games.

Alex Seropian joined Disney to head its in-house game development team, Disney Interactive Studios.

Alex Seropian serves as DePaul University's second "game designer in residence"; DePaul is the first liberal arts university to offer a bachelor's degree for game design.