Nebula (video game)
| Julian Gollop | |
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| Born | 1965 |
| Residence | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Video Game Designer |
| Years active | 1982 - Present |
| Employer |
Snapshot Games (Founder and CEO) |
| Known for | Video game design |
| Notable work |
UFO: Enemy Unknown Laser Squad Nemesis Chaos Reborn Phoenix Point |
| Spouse(s) | Reni (m. 2003) |
| Website | http://snapshotgames.com |
Julian Gollop is a British designer of strategy games and strategy video games. He is known best as the "man who gave birth to the X-COM franchise."IGN ranks him among the top hundred video game creators of all time. In the X-COM reboot, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Firaxis Games gives homage to Gollop in the form of a "Gollop Chamber" facility in the game. Jake Solomon, creative lead for this XCOM and its sequel, XCOM 2, credits Gollop for much of his success.
In 2003, Julian Gollop married Reni, a Bulgarian artist. He moved with her to Bulgaria in 2006.
Julian Gollop was born in 1965. He came of age in Harlow, England. When he was a child, his father introduced him to many different types of games, including chess, card games, and board games. His family played games regularly, choosing to play games instead of going to see movies. When he was about fourteen years old, Gollop started playing more complex games like Dungeons & Dragons, SPI board games, and Avalon Hill board games. After home computers became a reality while he was in secondary school, Gollop's fascination for complex strategy games helped him recognize how computers could allow him to make and play games he enjoyed.
In 1982, while he was still in secondary school, Julian Gollop started designing and programming video games. For £25, Gollop bought his first computer, a ZX81, from a school friend to learn programming. Even though the ZX81 only had one kilobyte of memory and no real graphics processing ability, he was "amazed" at its capabilities. His first published games were Islandia and Time Lords, which he made for the BBC Micro in 1983 with programmer Andy Greene, a school friend. Gollop subsequently upgraded to a ZX Spectrum and began creating video games like Nebula in BASIC. He recognized that his future involved computers.
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