Jeff Strain
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Jeff Strain
- Position
- Producer
Jeff Strain, a co-founder of ArenaNet, led the production and art teams for Guild Wars until 2008. Prior to the founding of ArenaNet, Jeff was the team lead and lead programmer of Blizzard's massively multiplayer role-playing game, World of Warcraft. He was also a senior programmer on both Warcraft III and StarCraft, and a programmer on Diablo. Jeff was the creator of the StarCraft Campaign Editor and was employed at Blizzard for four years.
Jeff was executive producer of Guild Wars 2 until September 2008, when he accepted a position at NC as president of product development in NC West. After moving to NC, Jeff was no longer involved in day-to-day Guild Wars 2 development. He left NC West in August 2009 to create Undead Labs, a company dedicated to developing console zombie-based MMORPGs. He features in many of the first articles and interviews announcing Guild Wars 2.
External links
- How to Create a Successful MMO - transcipt of the speech Jeff made at the Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig.
- NCsoft Announces Formation of "NC West"
- Mike O'Brien on Jeff's departure from NCsoft
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