Paul Isaac

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".

Origin Systems / Electronic Arts

Isaac began his career as a game programmer at Origin in June 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.

Digital Anvil / Microsoft

After 10 years at Origin, Isaac departed with a group of industry veterans to form Digital Anvil in January 1997. The company was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Isaac was the lead programmer on "Freelancer" as well as several unreleased Xbox 360 games.

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.

External links

*moby developer|id=6169|name=Paul Isaac
* [http://pisaac.net Personal web page]