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One of the people who just received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry started out at Bullfrog and worked as a games designer, first on Syndicate and later on designing and programming Theme Park. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_H...
![Bullfrog Productions
Asked by Cambridge University to take a gap year due to his young age, 115] Hassabis began his computer games career at Bullfrog Productions, first level designing on Syndicate, and then at 17 co-designing and lead programming on the 1994 game Theme Park, with the game's designer Peter Molyneux. 22] Theme Park, a simulation video game, sold several million copies 161 and inspired a whole genre of simulation sandbox games. He earned enough from his gap year to pay his own way through university. (15]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:l72izke74ftkpx57mwlijhpd/bafkreiauao4qgxfjgmfilvyjsl4ijioapzmqwzkzix7p5z44xtctxjvswm@jpeg)
Honestly this industry hasn't been worth pursuing after the Bullfrog days were over, good for them!
Honestly the only thing that would make this better is if he also worked on Theme Hospital and wrote the hilarious staff bios.
Syndicate deserved a Nobel Prize in Computer Gaming.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee
@alexandragallant.com
Ali “with an i”
Artist, Web & Graphic Designer, Nature & Science Illustrator, Award-Winning Cartoonist, Science Communicator in Medicine/Life Sciences in Boston, She/Her, Buffalo Always
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