- Stephen Glicker
Stephen Glicker is a video game designer, programmer and
blogger . He founded his first company, "Creative Simulations", in1986 . During this time he wrote, designed, programmed and published his first computer game "Mall Maniacs" for theApple II computer system.After the success of his entry into the gaming industry, he attended
Carnegie Mellon University where he studied Policy & Management and Graphic Communications Management. He also served as the Entertainment Editor for his local newspaper for two years and wrote a weekly column covering the game industry called "Press Start".After college, Stephen started the full-service digital media agency "SuperNova Productions". It was an award-winning, multi-million dollar company specializing in a large variety of projects for a wide variety of media including PC CD-ROM games, games for children, web-based games, cell phone games, Palm games, and games for museums and galleries. He had worked with some of the largest licenses in the world including
Harry Potter ,The Lion King , andBlue's Clues , as well as many others.During that time, he also taught courses in interactive design, game design, 3D animation, and related tools at
New York University , The New School, and Carnegie Mellon University. He has given a number of lectures and workshops throughout the country and continues to speak at various venues.After running SuperNova for eight years, Stephen sold his company. He is probably been better known since as the alias "GamingSteve" for his website [http://www.gamingsteve.com www.gamingsteve.com] . He publishes his semi-weekly podcast on his site, where he covers all aspects of the gaming scene.
More recently, Steve attended the 2006
Game Developers Conference in San Jose, where Xbox hosted its first ever "Bloggers Breakfast". Steve, amongst other attending bloggers, was acknowledged as being one of gamings most influential bloggers. [http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/gdc2006/20060323-bloggersbreakfast.htm]External links
[http://www.gamingsteve.com/ Gaming Steve]
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