Northwestern University (B.S.) University of Texas at Austin (M.A.)
Occupations
Role-playing and video game designer
director
writer
producer
production designer
Years active
1983–present
Spouse
Caroline L. Spector
(m. 1987)
Warren Evan Spector (born October 2, 1955[1]) is an American role-playing and video game designer, director, writer, producer and production designer. He is known for creating immersive sim games, which give players a wide variety of choices in how to progress.[2] Consequences of those choices are then shown in the simulated game world in subsequent levels or missions. He is best known for the critically acclaimed video game Deus Ex that embodies the choice and consequence philosophy while combining elements of the first-person shooter, role-playing, and adventure game genres.[3] In addition to Deus Ex, Spector is known for his work while employed by Looking Glass Studios, where he was involved in the creation of several acclaimed titles including Ultima Underworld, Ultima Underworld II, System Shock, and Thief: The Dark Project. He is employed by OtherSide Entertainment, where he was part of the development team for now-cancelled System Shock 3.[4][5] He is currently working on a new immersive sim based on an original intellectual property.[5]
^"TSR Profiles". Dragon. No. #123. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR, Inc. July 1987. p. 88.
^Spector, Warren (January 6, 2014). "Choice and consequence talk". gamasutra.com.
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^ ab"How Warren Spector got back to making his latest game". VentureBeat. March 12, 2022. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
Warren Evan Spector (born October 2, 1955) is an American role-playing and video game designer, director, writer, producer and production designer. He...
Anthony Franke in both games. Denton was created by Deus Ex director WarrenSpector. In his twenties, Denton begins the first Deus Ex as a new graduate...
addition of optional quests to encourage alternate approaches to missions. WarrenSpector, part of Looking Glass Studios, said that immersive sims create the...
his personality, depicting him as an epic hero. It was directed by WarrenSpector, who collaborated with Walt Disney Animation Studios on the project...
June 2016, the company opened a second studio in Austin, Texas, led by WarrenSpector. OtherSide developed Underworld Ascendant (2018), a spiritual successor...
Deus Ex was conceived by WarrenSpector in 1994 under the working title Troubleshooter. The main drive behind Deus Ex was Spector's growing dislike for straight...
Monkeystone Games, a game company that produced mobile games. In late 1997, WarrenSpector was asked to found the Austin branch of Ion Storm. By keeping well clear...
American singer from the Ronettes Tim Spector (born 1958), British epidemiologist and science writer WarrenSpector, American computer game designer Yitzchak...
video game developer based in Austin, Texas founded by Deus Ex creator, WarrenSpector, in 2004. Disney Interactive Studios acquired Junction Point Studios...
and published by Origin Systems. It was directed by Doug Church with WarrenSpector serving as producer. The game is set aboard a space station in a cyberpunk...
its development, though Spector affirmed that OtherSide is still involved in its development alongside Tencent. WarrenSpector has stated that OtherSide...
Steven Tabakin. Whitton was married to Bear, Stearns & Co. executive WarrenSpector from 1993 until her death in 2016. Whitton died on December 4, 2016...
prequel was in development by Junction Point Studios, with a team led by WarrenSpector. The game's plot was intended to explain the backstory behind both Ravenholm...
we can do much more than we currently do with it." Game developer WarrenSpector described Cage as one of the best storytellers in the business, calling...
and currently published by Tor Books. Caroline Skelley met writer WarrenSpector in 1984 at a comic book store in Austin, Texas, where she was employed...
Underworld, Ultima Underworld II, System Shock and Thief. His colleague WarrenSpector claims, in fact, that Church was the one who originally coined the term...
2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016. Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two - WarrenSpector Extended Cut Archived January 28, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Game...
people at the American company Ion Storm. Team director and producer WarrenSpector began to plan the game in 1993 after releasing Ultima Underworld II...
Half-Life 2 episode: developed by Junction Point Studios and led by WarrenSpector. Development ceased when Junction Point signed a deal with Disney Interactive...
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