Mike O'Brien
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(Photo taken during the first Guild Wars World Championship )
Mike O'Brien, Co-Founder and Programmer, currently leads the design and content teams for Guild Wars. Mike O'Brien worked for Blizzard for more than four years. Mike O'Brien lead the Warcraft III team and was the lead programmer, where he personally developed the 3D rendering engine. He also was involved heavily with the development of Battle.net - he was the lead programmer. He also worked as a senior programmer with the networking code on StarCraft and Diablo. He also worked on Warcraft II.
Mike was featured as one of the 25 most influential people in the game industry in PC Gamer's September 1999 cover story, "Game Gods".
