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Rick Goodman is a video game developer and the founder and owner of the now-defunct Stainless Steel Studios. He is best known for the RTS games he designed, such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth. ==Career== In 1995 Goodman co-founded Ensemble Studios〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Interview with Rick Goodman )〕 together with his brother, Tony Goodman, and John Boog-Scott. Their first project was ''Age of Empires'' (AoE), in which Goodman worked as Lead Designer. After 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 afterward many games like it 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. After Age of Empires, Goodman left Ensemble to form his own studio with Dara-Lynn Pelechatz: Stainless Steel Studios〔 in 1998. Pelechatz told GameSpy that Goodman couldn't decide what name to give for his studio, so he opened a catalog with the plan to baptise the studio with the very first thing he encountered.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Gamespy articles )〕 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). The game (won ) the GameSpy PC "Game-of-the-Year 2001" Award. According to some, ''Empire Earth'' was what Goodman wanted ''Age of Empires'' to be. PC Gamer said in an article about ''Empire Earth'' that it feels like it's the gold edition of the ''entire'' AoE-series (which is all the AoE games, including the future games such as AoE IV and V). 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 a hit, the game was rated, in some reviews and websites, ''higher'' than Empire Earth. After ''Empires'', Goodman helped in the creation of another game: ''Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile'' which was published by Myelin Media in US and SEGA in Europe. It was 1st released on November 2004. 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,〔http://www.8dworld.com/en/about_board.html〕 which built a virtual world where Chinese children learn English. 〔http://games.venturebeat.com/2008/07/02/8d-world-raises-a-round-for-secret-online-fantasy-world/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rick Goodman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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