Warren Spector (born October 2, 1955) is a role-playing game designer and a 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 L. Spector. He is best known for the cyberpunk FPS/RPG hybrid, Deus Ex (and its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War).
Spector grew up in Manhattan, which he described as a sometimes...
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Warren Spector (born October 2, 1955) is a role-playing game designer and a 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 L. Spector. He is best known for the cyberpunk FPS/RPG hybrid, Deus Ex (and its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War).
Spector grew up in Manhattan, which he described as a sometimes hostile environment where “short, pudgy, Jewish kids didn’t fare well.” He showed an intense devotion to whatever topic became his obsession at any given time, from dinosaurs and airplanes as a small boy, to an interest in law by the sixth grade. At age 13, Spector had decided he wanted to be a film critic, and by high school, his obsessions expanded to include cars and basketball.
Spector attended Northwestern University in Illinois, still intending to become a film critic, stating that he “knew more about movies than a lot of my teachers.”...
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