Jon Radoff
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| Jon Radoff | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 17, 1972 United States |
| Occupation | Founder, GuildCafe Entertainment Inc. |
Jon Radoff (b. September 17, 1972) is an American entrepreneur and game designer. His work has focused on online communities, Internet media and computer games. Radoff was a co-founder of NovaLink, an early internet service provider.[1] In 1991, while at NovaLink, he created Legends of Future Past, one of the first commercial MMORPGs.[1] Another early game he wrote was Space Empire Elite, a bulletin board system strategy game for Atari ST BBSes.[2] In 1997, he founded Eprise Corporation, a creator of Web content management software.[3] Eprise went public on the NASDAQ stock market in 2000 and continued operations until it was acquired by Divine Inc in 2001.[4]
On September 21, 2006, Radoff founded GuildCafe Entertainment (formerly SparkForge), a video game developer working on creating games and platform technologies for "massively scalable online games".[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Online Company SparkForge Formed, Coins 'MSOGs', GamaSutra, September 22, 2006
- ^ SRE: Design Notes, Amit Patel (Designer of Solar Realms Elite)
- ^ Eprise Expected To Rocket On Offering, Forbes, March 22, 2000
- ^ Divine closes acquisition of Eprise Corporation, Divine Inc. press release, December 5, 2001
- ^ GuildCafe company website
