Lauren Elliott

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Lauren Elliott
NationalityAmerican
Known forCreator of Carmen Sandiego

Lauren Elliott is an American

edutainment
video game industry.

Elliott's greatest success to date came as the original co-designer for the Carmen Sandiego game series which remains the best-selling edutainment game in history.

Biography

Lauren Elliott is the grandson of Hall Roosevelt, brother of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Education

After graduating from the Millbrook School for Boys, Elliott attended

University of California at Davis
.

Career in game design

In 1983, Elliott walked into

Broderbund Software in San Rafael
, California, with a sketchpad full of game designs and was hired on the provision that he could convince a programmer to take on one of his designs. Over the next 13-year period he authored and worked on more than 23 titles. He now has over 30 million copies of his work in circulation and is a winner of over 50 awards in originality and lifetime sales categories.

While at Broderbund, Elliott and Gene Portwood were Will Wright's project managers on his first video game, Raid on Bungeling Bay, in 1984.

In 1996, Elliott left to form Elliott Portwood Productions with his partner Gene Portwood. During the next four years, they produced titles for

Virgin Software, and The Software Toolworks
.

In 2002, Elliott formed Dream Zero, an internet gaming company, later acquired by The Big Network.

In 2005, Elliott published a book – With Love, Aunt Eleanor – written by his mother, who is the niece of Eleanor Roosevelt.[1]

Elliott is currently the Executive Producer of Proxi.

Games designed by Elliott

References

  1. ^ "Book Review: With Love, Aunt Eleanor". ForeWord Reviews. April 15, 2004.

External links


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