Graeme Devine Leaves id Software

Thanks to Gamasutra.com for their news report (registration required) indicating that Graeme Devine has left id Software for Microsoft-owned Ensemble, the developers of the Age Of Empires series. The article elaborates: "Devine's career covers a substantial swath of videogame history, starting with porting games such as Pole Position for Atari while still in high school in the U.K. in the early 1980s. He later co-founded Trilobyte, where he was central to the development of the seminal CD-ROM title The 7th Guest and its follow-up, The 11th Hour. Most recently Devine was working on Doom 3 for id, in roles ranging from project manager to designer to programmer." Further details are as yet unavailable, but the piece suggests "..in his new role at Ensemble, Devine will be focusing primarily on game design."

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No so amazing

[VikingBrad]

Sandy Petersen, currently a game designer at Ensemble, used to work at id and also worked on the original Doom, Doom 2 & Quake.

Also since they'll down Texas way it wouldn't be such a huge change.

Petersen is working on a secret project unrelated to the Age series and I guess they need some more help. With the success of the Age series and now the financial backing of MS hiring great game designers is a smart move.

Cheers

VikingBrad