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Creating casual games for all demographics. Peggle EXTREME for the Orange Box on Steam was originally released on major online casual games portals frequented by middle-aged women. Explore how PopCap Games was able to adapt this game to a Half-Life loving audience.
Delivered at Casual Connect Amsterdam, February 2008
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After graduating with a BS in Computer Science, Eric began his career at Gas Powered Games as a software engineer responsible for gameplay, special effects and level design support on the Dungeon Siege franchise, a role playing game designed for mass market appeal. Eric contributed to the titles Dungeon Siege, Dungeon Siege Legends of Arana, and Dungeon Siege II while at GPG.Eric started making casual games as the engineer for Inspector Parker. After Inspector Parker launched, he went on to become one of the original members of Oberon Media’s Seattle development studio. While at Oberon Media, Eric completed BeTrapped!, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, online multiplayer games, and a set of online games for the MSN gaming zone. Most recently, Eric worked as a lead on the project to rewrite the Microsoft Windows in-box games. Eric was responsible for animation, design, special effects, and engineering work for the new versions of Hearts, Free cell, Solitaire, Spider solitaire, Minesweeper, Shanghai, and Chess. These new games will ship pre-installed with the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.Currently Eric is working on a new and exciting project at PopCap Games. In his spare time, Eric is committed to helping indie game developers and is involved in the core game development community in the Seattle, WA area.
