Paul Isaac
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Paul C. Isaac (born June 29, 1968) is a computer game developer. He is best known for his work on hit titles such as Wing Commander, Strike Commander and Freelancer.
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[edit] Origin Systems / Electronic Arts
Isaac began his career as a game programmer at Origin in June of 1987. He worked with Chris Roberts to create Times of Lore for the Commodore 64. He continued to work with Roberts on numerous projects: Bad Blood, the Wing Commander series and Strike Commander.
While at Origin he created EOR a 3D object editor. This tool was used to create art for many games at Origin and Electronic Arts prior to the advent of commercial software like 3D Studio.
[edit] Digital Anvil / Microsoft
After 10 years at Origin, Isaac departed with a group of industry veterans to form Digital Anvil in January of 1997. The company was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Isaac was the lead programmer on Freelancer as well as several unreleased Xbox 360 games.
[edit] Certain Affinity
In 2006, Paul teamed up with Max Hoberman and Martin Galway to form Certain Affinity, a video game development studio based in Austin, Texas.
