Don Daglow (born 12 September 1952; age 72) is a pioneering video game designer, programmer, and producer who has been involved in said industry since the early 1970s. He was the founder of Stormfront Studios, and currently serves as an advisor to The Strong National Museum of Play.
His earliest connection to the Star Trek Universe was from 1971 to 1974, when he wrote the script-based computer text game titled Star Trek he created on the PDP-10 mainframe while attending Pomona College in Claremont, California. [1] Popularized during a time prior to the advent of home computers, this game was one of two popular Star Trek titles played in US colleges during the early 1970s, the other being the SDS Sigma 7 game, which shared the same name [2] and was released at roughly the same time. The game's popularity came as a result of its addition to DECUS, and became traded with other colleges and universities, and eventually garnered him a fan following. [3] [4](X)
Daglow's official credit to the video game aspect of the franchise came as executive producer and additional game design contributor to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger.
External links[]
- DaglowsLaws.com – game developer website
- DonDaglow.com – author website
- Don Daglow at LinkedIn.com
- Don Daglow at the Internet Movie Database
- Don Daglow at Wikipedia