Julian Gollop is a British video game designer and producer specialising in strategy games, who has founded and led Mythos Games, Codo Technologies and Snapshot Games.
15 Facts About Julian Gollop
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Julian Gollop's family played games regularly, choosing to play games instead of going to see films.
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In 1982, while he was still in secondary school, Julian Gollop started designing and programming computer games.
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Julian Gollop's first published games were Islandia and Time Lords, which he made for the BBC Micro in 1983 with programmer Andy Greene, a school friend.
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Julian Gollop subsequently upgraded to a ZX Spectrum and began creating video games like Nebula in BASIC.
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When Julian Gollop went on to the London School of Economics to study sociology, he spent more time creating video games such as Chaos: The Battle of Wizards and Rebelstar than he spent studying.
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Julian Gollop created the first Rebelstar by himself as a two-player game and brought it to a publisher that had an office near his college.
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In 1988, he was joined by his brother, Nick Julian Gollop, in founding Target Games, a video game development company that subsequently changed to Mythos Games.
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Under the Mythos name, the Julian Gollop brothers designed and developed computer games such as Laser Squad, UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-COM: Apocalypse.
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Up to this time, Julian Gollop had only made computer games for 8-bit and 16-bit home computers commonly found in Europe.
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The Julian Gollop brothers developed only one other game, Rebelstar: Tactical Command, before he moved to Bulgaria with his wife in 2006.
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Julian Gollop was promoted quickly to producer, eventually leading the development of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars for the Nintendo 3DS.
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Julian Gollop then became the co-creative director of Assassin's Creed III: Liberation for the PlayStation Vita.
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Julian Gollop left Ubisoft in 2012 with ideas to remake games from earlier in his career.
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Julian Gollop then led his company's development of Phoenix Point, which was released in December 2019.