Joseph Staten

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Joseph Staten

Staten (left) with Eric Nylund (right) at Comic-Con International 2007
Genres Science fiction
Notable work(s) Halo: Contact Harvest

Joseph Staten is a bestselling American writer born in San Francisco, California. He is Director of Cinematics at game developer Bungie, and has worked at the company since 1998.[1] His first novel, Halo: Contact Harvest, reached #3 on The New York Times bestseller list in the first week of its release.[2]

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Staten is the son of a minister who is a professor of theology and philosophy of religion.[3] He is married with two children.[3]

[edit] Education

Staten entered Northwestern University in 1990 with the intention of becoming an actor.[4] Realizing he wasn't material to be a leading man, he dropped the idea, but stayed with theater. After graduation Staten intended on getting his Master's degree at the University of Chicago and joining the Central Intelligence Agency. Having completed his masters, and being rejected by the CIA, Staten dropped the idea of entering the foreign service and helped his family at their winery in in Sonoma Valley.[3] Eventually, Staten met some of game developer Bungie's staff playing multiplayer games of Myth and joined the staff in 1998.[4]

[edit] Bungie

His role at Bungie is director of cinematics, and was responsible for the script and in-game cinematics for Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and Halo 3.[5][4] Work on the games at "crunch time" involved 80 hour weeks and stretches without sleep maxing out at 72 hours.[4] He also wrote the fifth Halo novelization, Halo: Contact Harvest.[6] He is assisting with the fiction of Halo Wars and the now-postponed Halo film.[5] Additionally, he lends his voice to Grunts in the Halo series games.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Meet The Team. Bungie.net (2008-04-01). Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  2. ^ Brightman, James (2007-11-19). Halo: Contact Harvest Becomes New York Times Bestseller in First Week. GameDaily.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-15.
  3. ^ a b c Perry, Douglass (2007-10-29). The Halo Harvest Interview, Part 1. GameTap. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  4. ^ a b c d e Lu, Cathy (2006-07-01). Halo's Big Grunt. Northwestern Magazine. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  5. ^ a b O'Connor, Frank (2007-05-10). Halo: Contact Harvest. Bungie.net. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
  6. ^ Johnson, Stephen (2007-10-31). EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Staten Interview. G4 TV. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.

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