Henrique Olifiers

Henrique Olifiers

Henrique Olifiers is a Brazilian game designer specialized in creating media convergent game formats.

Career

Olifiers's last position in Brazil was as Head of Games at Globo TV. There he developed around 30 web-based games, some of them multiplayer, such as "Thorvarium" 1 and 2. He developed one massive multiplayer online role-playing game called "Herois e vampiros" (Heroes and Vampires). He was also the lead designer in the production of the games "Conquista de Titã", and "My Big Brother".

Interestingly, Olifiers is better known not as a game designer but as a gaming journalist. He conducted GamesMania Brazil, the South American arm of the worldwide GamesMania online magazine. As a chief-editor, he led the gaming portal in the early 90s.

After GamesMania Olifiers founded LagZero, a multiplayer-oriented gaming portal that later became the wider [http://www.FinalBoss.com/ FinalBoss.com] , actually the largest hardcore gaming portal in Latin America. FinalBoss.com is also a startup game development company.

Olifiers is working as Head of MechScape at Jagex Ltd Cite web|url=http://www.massively.com/2008/07/15/jagex-teases-sci-fi-successor-to-runescape-mechscape/|title=E308: Jagex teases sci-fi successor to Runescape, Mechscape|accessdate=2008-07-19|publisher=Massively|year=2008|author=Michael Zenke|language=English] .

References

External links

* [http://www.finalboss.com/ FinalBoss.com gaming news portal]
* [http://www.globo.com/ Globo online portal]
* [http://www.jagex.com/corporate/ Jagex Ltd. corporate site]
* [http://www.gamesmania.de/ GamesMania Germany, one of the still active languages of the former online portal]
* [http://www.guru3d.com/opinionated/990929/index.shtml A very old and interesting Guru3D article written by Olifiers where he predicts the downfall of 3dfx]


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