Don Daglow was born on circa 1953 and is an American video game designer, programmer, and producer.
12 Facts About Don Daglow
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Don Daglow is best known for being the creator of early games from several different genres, including pioneering simulation game Utopia for Intellivision in 1981, role-playing game Dungeon in 1975, sports games including the first interactive computer baseball game Baseball in 1971, and the first graphical MMORPG, Neverwinter Nights in 1991.
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Don Daglow founded long-standing game developer Stormfront Studios in 1988.
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In 1971 Don Daglow was studying playwriting at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
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Some of Don Daglow's titles were distributed to universities by the DECUS program-sharing organization, earning popularity in the free-play era of 1970s college gaming.
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Don Daglow's best known games and experiments of this era include:.
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In 1980 Don Daglow was hired as one of the original five in-house Intellivision programmers at Mattel during the first console wars.
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Don Daglow took a lead role in signing the original distribution deal for SimCity with Maxis, and acquired the Star Wars license for Broderbund from LucasFilm.
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Between 1988 and 1995 Don Daglow designed or co-designed the following titles:.
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Don Daglow serves on the San Francisco advisory board of the International Game Developers Association, the advisory board to the president of the Academy of Art University and served on the advisory board to the Games Convention Developers Conference until it was dissolved in 2008.
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Don Daglow has been a keynote speaker, lecturer and panelist at game development conferences in Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Don Daglow was a winner of the National Endowment for the Humanities New Voices playwriting competition in 1975.