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5 unusual facts about Rick Goodman


Ensemble Studios

Ensemble Studios was a video game developer initially established in 1995 as an independent company by Tony Goodman, Rick Goodman and John Boog-Scott, but was acquired by Microsoft in 2001 and operated as an internal studio until 2009, when it was officially disbanded.

Rick Goodman

Goodman would soon break up with Sierra and start working on a new game Empires: Dawn of the Modern World.

He is best known for the RTS games he designed, such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth.

In 2001, Stainless Steel, under Goodman, created Empire Earth.

Their first project was Age of Empires (AoE), in which Goodman worked as Lead Designer.



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