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His Ultima series of role-playing games remains one of the most successful and longest running franchises in entertainment software history. In 1983, Richard and his brother, Robert, established Origin Systems, at which many influential game designers launched their careers. In 1992, Origin was acquired by Electronic Arts. In 2009, he cofounded Portalarium, where he is CEO and creative director of his latest game,\u003Cem\u003E Shroud of the Avatar\u003C\/em\u003E, which has raised over $4 million through crowd funding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2008, Richard journeyed to the International Space Station and became the sixth private citizen to fly in Earth\u2019s orbit, becoming the first second-generation American in space. He has invested in related ventures such as the Zero-G Corporation, X-Prize, and Spacelab. Richard is currently chairman of Space Adventures, Ltd., the world\u2019s premier private space exploration company.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe regularly hosts the Austin Shakespeare Festival on his estate with his creation of a Shakespeare\u2019s Globe replica.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStarr Long\u003C\/strong\u003E has been making video games for two decades. Starr started his career at Origin Systems, where he was the project director of\u003Cem\u003E Ultima Online\u003C\/em\u003E, the longest running massively multiplayer online (MMO) game in history. In 2000, Starr cofounded Destination Games with Richard and Robert Garriott, and later that year, it was acquired by NCsoft. In 2009, he joined The Walt Disney Company as an executive producer, where he produced eight minigames in \u003Cem\u003EClub Penguin\u003C\/em\u003E (including \u003Cem\u003EPufflescape\u003C\/em\u003E, the second most popular minigame in that virtual world), \u003Cem\u003EClub Penguin\u003C\/em\u003E mobile, the Disney Parent App for Facebook. His Disney Connected Learning mobile apps ranked in the top 10 in iOS educational and kids games. In 2013, he joined Portalarium, where he is executive producer of \u003Cem\u003EShroud of the Avatar\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Video Game Development: Past, Present, and Future with Richard Garriott and Starr Long"}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2014-08-25 10:04:25","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:21:57","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-08-29T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2014-08-29T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-08-29T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-08-29 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-08-29 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-08-29 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"318721":{"id":"318721","type":"image","title":"Richard Garriott","body":null,"created":"1449244997","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:03:17","changed":"1475895027","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:27","alt":"Richard Garriott","file":{"fid":"200045","name":"garriott.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/garriott_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/garriott_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":38664,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/garriott_0.jpg?itok=XMfFYOfR"}},"318741":{"id":"318741","type":"image","title":"Starr Long","body":null,"created":"1449244997","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:03:17","changed":"1475895027","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:27","alt":"Starr Long","file":{"fid":"200046","name":"starrlong.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/starrlong_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/starrlong_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":42497,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/starrlong_0.jpg?itok=G5o0d1Ua"}}},"media_ids":["318721","318741"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2449","name":"video games"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAaron Lanterman\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:aaron.lanterman@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eaaron.lanterman@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}