Brian Reynolds (born 1967) is a videogame designer who now designs online social games (e.g. on Facebook). Reynolds has designed at Zynga, Big Huge Games, Firaxis Games, and Microprose. He presently works as chief game designer at Zynga and has been chairman of the International Game Developers Association. He has played a major part in designing a number of multi-million selling games including Civilization II, Rise of Nations, Sid Meier's Alpha...
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Brian Reynolds (born 1967) is a videogame designer who now designs online social games (e.g. on Facebook). Reynolds has designed at Zynga, Big Huge Games, Firaxis Games, and Microprose. He presently works as chief game designer at Zynga and has been chairman of the International Game Developers Association. He has played a major part in designing a number of multi-million selling games including Civilization II, Rise of Nations, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and FrontierVille.
Reynolds made his first game sale with Quest 1 to SoftSide magazine, its August 1981 cover feature. He was a gamer in high school, and a SysOp on Randolph School's (Huntsville, Alabama) PDP-11 mainframe computer. A 1990 graduate of the University of the South, Reynolds briefly pursued graduate studies in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. This influence is evident in the emphasis on philosophy encountered in one of his more famous computer games, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
Reynolds initiated...
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