Warren Spector

Warren Spector is a veteran computer game designer. He is known for having worked to merge elements of role-playing games and first-person shooters. He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, fantasy writer Caroline Spector. Spector earned his BS in Communications at Northwestern University and MA in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas in Austin. Before entering the computer game industry, Spector worked for Steve Jackson Games producing role-playing game. Most notably, he developed Toon with colleague and high school buddy Greg Costikyan. Soon thereafter, he went to work for TSR, Inc., where he spent some time in their R&D; department, helping launch among other things, Spelljammer. He is also credited with working on Top Secret/S.I. Subsequently he worked with Origin Systems and Looking Glass Studios. He worked on games including Ultima Underworld I and II, System Shock, and worked briefly on Dark Camelot, which later became Thief: The Dark Project. Later he... full article at wikipedia