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News Releases -- January 17th, 2002
Relic Entertainment Announces Dan Irish as a Guest Lecturer at Stanford University
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – January 15, 2002 – Relic Entertainment
announced today that Dan Irish, formerly of Mattel Interactive and Ubi Soft
Entertainment, will be speaking at Stanford University on the topics of Game Design and
Business Development on January 23, 2002. The class is entitled "the History of
Computer Game Design: Technology, Culture, Business"
Irish was the Producer responsible for the Myst™ franchise (from April 1999 until June
2001), which included its most recent chapter, Myst III: Exile, as well as Myst IV, still in
development at Ubi Soft Entertainment. The Myst franchise has sold over ten million
units worldwide and remains one of the top-selling product lines of all time. At Relic
Entertainment, Irish is now responsible for the Homeworld 2™, the sequel to the 1999
Game of the Year, Homeworld™.
"We are very pleased have Dan Irish speak on the topic of Game Design and Business
Management," says Dr. Henry Lowood, Curator of History of Science & Technology for
Stanford’s Green Library. "Dan’s involvement with the game industry for the past ten
years at makes him an ideal choice to provide some hard answers to the questions our
students have. The case study he provides takes the ‘theoretical’ to being ‘actual.’"
"The game industry has taken some dramatic steps forward in recent years" said Dan
Irish, Executive Producer at Relic. "The fact that Stanford University recognizes this
industry as an art form is indicative of just how far it has come. I hope that this program
continues to develop into an actual degree-level program with the credentials so many
strive for and for which the industry is eager."
"The History of Computer Game Design" is part of "How They Got Game: The History
and Culture of Interactive Simulations and Videogames," a project funded by the
Stanford Humanities Laboratory. The principle investigators are Prof. Timothy Lenoir of
the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Dr. Henry Lowood, Curator for
History of Science and Technology Collections, both at Stanford University.
Past speakers in the class have included industry veterans such as Al Alcorn, Luc
Barthelet, Dennis Fong, Steve Russell, Scott Hamilton, Janese Swanson, and Matthew
Ford, as well as academic speakers presenting the development of relevant computer
science, artificial intelligence, and computer graphics work. This year's lineup will add
Will Wright, Kevin Toyama, and Rob Smith, and others.
About Relic Entertainment
Relic Entertainment Inc. is a developer of original content electronic
entertainment located in Vancouver, Canada. Relic’s debut product, Homeworld,
was Computer Gaming World's Game of the Year for 1999. Relic currently has
50 employees with 2 titles under development. Relic’s founder, Alex Garden, was
featured in "The New Game Gods" by PC Gamer Magazine and continues to
lead Relic in pioneering new and innovative products.
Myst is a registered trademark of Cyan, Inc. Homeworld is a registered
trademark of Sierra Studios, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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