Rick Goodman a man that give us too much Fun

[Lion.Kanzen]

Today Im remember Rick Good

Who is This Man?

In 1995 Goodman co-founded Ensemble Studios.together with his brother, Tony Goodman, and John Boog-Scott. Their first project was Age of Empires.

fter the game's release, it became an overnight sensation and Goodman became one of the most recognized game developers in the world. Because of the success of the game, some said that Goodman had invented in AoE "the most well recognized game interface for RTS games", because, in many games like it afterward began to use the AoE game interface: a mini map, unit and building controls, the name of your civilization and the age which you are currently in on top of the screen and others.

In 2001, Stainless Steel, under Goodman, created Empire Earth. The game, which was published by Sierra Entertainment, offered many new features, including a 3D view of the world, impressive zoom-in and zoom-out features, and a timeline that spanned from pre-history to the twenty-second century (over 500,000 years).

Goodman would soon break up with Sierra and start working on a new game Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. The game is very similar to Goodman's previous successes, except the game spans only a millennium of entire history of humanity, from 950 to 1950, which is said to be the most pivotal years in human history. The game was released in 2003 and published by Activision. Ironically, although it wasn't much of hit, the game was rated, in some reviews and websites, higher than Empire Earth.

Goodman's last game was real time strategy game Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War published and partially developed by Midway Games and was released on July 12, 2006. Goodman is currently a board member of 8D World, which built a virtual world where Chinese children learn English.

Source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Goodman

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this man made ​​me love the genre RTS.

[Pedro Falcão]

Didn't know about all these games, i thought the developers continued til Age of Empires 3 (i read they wanted to put another name, but microsoft refused).

[Sighvatr]

Their last AoE game was Halo Wars for the Xbox 360 console. It wasn't a very complex game either.

[Lion.Kanzen]

is a shame that guy is retired now. now commercial gaming not get a real new RTS. Total War crush all. but i love TW series. but is not 100% real RTS or Old School RTS.

[Mythos_Ruler]

0 A.D. will crush all.

[Lion.Kanzen]

yeah, hope that. that why we must learn the mistake all them. we take all good things.