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Gordon Walton was born on 2 March, 1956 in Houston, Texas, United States, is an An american video game designer. Discover Gordon Walton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?
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Gordon Walton Net Worth
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(Conrad) Gordon Walton, Jr. (born 1956) is an American video game developer and executive producer who has worked with many North American online game companies, from Maxis to Electronic Arts to Sony Online to BioWare.
Walton was born on March 2, 1956, in Houston, Texas, to Conrad G. Walton, Sr., an architect, and Rilda Akin, an artist.
Roberta Agnes (Robin) Hensley and Evelyn Coleman (Eve) Lowey are his siblings.
He attended Spring Woods High School in Houston, and then enlisted in the U.S. Army from 1974 to 1977, attaining the rank of Sergeant.
He was stationed at Fort Ord, Fort Gordon, Fort Hood, Fort Chaffee, and Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Since 1977 he has personally developed over thirty games, and overseen development of hundreds more, working as a producer, vice-president or executive producer.
He is currently Executive Producer of the Kickstarter-backed MMORPG Crowfall.
In 1977 he left the army to enroll at Texas A&M University, and continued serving in the U.S. National Guard until 1979.
He played his first computer game in 1977 on the PLATO system, and published his first computer game, Trek-X, in 1978 on the Commodore PET 2001.
In 1981, he received his BS degree in computer science.
In 1984, he co-founded Applied Computing (later called Digital Illusions) with Don Gilman, and he was development manager for both Three-Sixty Pacific and Konami of America, Inc.
From 1990 to 1992 he also served briefly in the US Army Reserve.
Though his work had been exclusively in the single-player game industry up until that point, in 1995 he joined the growing online game industry, managing games such as Air Warrior and Multiplayer Battletech at Kesmai.
After Kesmai, Walton moved on to managing Ultima Online at Origin Systems, and then at Sony Online Entertainment in Austin, he worked on Star Wars Galaxies.
At Maxis, he was an executive producer on The Sims Online.
He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as E3, GDC, and the Austin Games Conference, and attained fame in 2003 for a talk entitled, "Ten Great Reasons You Don't want to Make a Massively Multiplayer Game."
He is also active in the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and IGDA, and has been on the steering committee of the IGDA's Online Games SIG.
He is on the advisory boards for the Full Sail University, University of Texas at Austin, and Austin Community College Game Programs, while informally advising other educational programs.
Walton currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Laura Ann Miskines Walton, and children John and Katherine.
The following is a brief list of games which Walton either managed, produced, or developed:
He worked on the MMOG Star Wars: The Old Republic at BioWare's studio in Austin until January 2011.
He was last employed at the social gaming company Playdom and started his own company in 2013.