Matt Firor

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Matt Firor is a well known game producer/designer of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG's). Matt is best known for his involvement in the critically acclaimed game Dark Age of Camelot for Mythic Entertainment.

[edit] Biography

Matt Firor's first foray into online gaming was a failed attempt in 1987 to license the Scepter of Goth BBS multi-user roleplaying game. The second, more successful project was the co-founding of Interesting Systems with Rob Denton and two others, in 1990. At ISI, Matt was co-designer and lead content developer for ISI's multi-user BBS game Tempest (later renamed Darkness Falls).

ISI merged with Adventures Unlimited Software to form Mythic Entertainment in 1995. Firor stayed at Mythic from 1995-2006, where he was the producer of most of Mythic's titles, including the worldwide MMORPG bestseller Dark Age of Camelot and its first two expansions.

Recently, Matt was VP of Product Development at Mythic, where he was - along with COO Rob Denton - responsible for the management of all of Mythic's development projects. In 2005/06, he led up Mythic's internal Console technology team which assessed the future of MMORPGs on next-generation console platforms.

In June 2006, Firor left Mythic Entertainment to found Ultra Mega Games, a consulting company specializing in online gaming services.

August 1, 2007, Matt was hired by ZeniMax Media Inc., parent company of Bethesda Softworks, to head ZeniMax Online Studios.

[edit] Games List

  • 1991 Tempest (Darkness Falls) (Content/Design)
  • 1996 Rolemaster: Magestorm (Producer/Design)
  • 1996 Splatterball (Producer/Design)
  • 1997 Darkness Falls (Producer/Design/Content)
  • 1997 Rolemaster: Bladelands (Producer)
  • 1998 Aliens Online (Producer/Design)
  • 1998 Starship Troopers: Battlespace (Producer)
  • 1998 Godzilla Online (Producer)
  • 1999 Silent Death Online (Producer/Lead Designer)
  • 1999 Darkness Falls: The Crusade (Producer)
  • 1999 Splatterball Plus (Producer)
  • 1999 Darkstorm: The Well of Souls (Producer)
  • 1999 Spellbinder: The Nexus Conflict (Producer/Design)
  • 2001 Dark Age of Camelot (Producer/Design)
  • 2002 Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles ( Producer/Design)
  • 2003 Dark Age of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis (Exec. Producer)
  • 2004 Dark Age of Camelot: Catacombs (Exec Producer)


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