David R. Sullivan
aka:
Dave Sullivan,
David Sullivan,
David Randy Sullivan
Moby ID: 140108
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David R. Sullivan has been in video games since he was a young kid and worked on titles including moby search="5018247202083">Wing Commander, Road Rash, Soviet Strike, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II,Death, Jr. and New World. David has also worked on many technology products such as EA LLFileIO and CD streaming system, Foundation 9's UMD/DVD streaming technology, 2K's My2K backend, and OnLive's Game Platform.
He is currently working at Amazon Games as a Technical Director.
David has previously worked for 2K Games as the Core Technology group Director of Engineering where he helped build the Core Technology group, my2K backend, and analytics systems.
Previous to 2K Games, David worked for OnLive, Inc. as the Game Platform manager on the groundbreaking OnLive streaming game system, as well as the Manager of OnLive Desktop and Enterprise Platform teams that put a full Windows 7 Desktop in the cloud on iPad.
Previous to OnLive, David worked for Foundation 9 / Backbone Entertainment as a Technical Director where he was instrumental in growing the studio from less than 40 employees and mostly specialty platforms and Gameboy to a studio with over a hundred employees and SKUs on all platforms.
Previous to Foundation 9, David worked as Director of Technology at Interplay Entertainment; Technical Director at Electronic Arts; Division Manager at Mindscape; Engineer at Leland Corp. and other contracting and equity positions in small developers.
Credited on 70 games
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| New World (2021, Windows) | Technical Director |
| WWE 2K17 (2017, Windows) | Director of Engineering |
| Sid Meier's Civilization VI (2016, Windows) | Director of Engineering |
| NHL SuperCard 2K17 (2016, Android) | Director of Engineering |
| Mafia III (2016, Windows) | Director of Engineering |
| BioShock: Remastered (2016, Windows) | Director of Engineering |
| BioShock 2: Remastered (2016, Windows) | Director of Engineering |
| XCOM 2 (2016, Windows) | Sr. Architect |
| Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide (2015, Windows) | Senior Architect |
| Sid Meier's Starships (2015, Windows) | Senior Architect |
| Evolve (2015, Windows) | Sr. Architect |
| Evolve: Hunter's Quest (2015, Windows Apps) | Sr. Architect |
| Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth (2014, Windows) | Sr Architect |
| BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode Two (2014, Xbox 360) | Senior Architect |
| Sid Meier's Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies (2013, Windows) | Sr Architect |
| WWE 2K14 (2013, Xbox 360) | Sr. Architect |
| NBA 2K14 (2013, Xbox 360) | Sr. Architect |
| The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (2013, Xbox 360) | Sr. Architect |
| Turd Birds (2013, Android) | Senior Architect |
| Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World (2013, Windows) | Senior Architect |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 26 games with Jose Olivares
- 25 games with Javier Vidal Fimia
- 24 games with Christoph Hartmann
- 24 games with Ryan Jones
- 23 games with Alan Lewis
- 23 games with Siobhan Boes
- 23 games with Nathalie Mathews
- 23 games with Ben Kvalo
- 23 games with Strauss Zelnick
- 23 games with Greg Gibson
Companies
- 23 games with 2K Games, Inc.
- 14 games with Valve Corporation
- 11 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 11 games with Backbone Emeryville
- 9 games with Backbone Entertainment, Inc.
- 7 games with Interplay Entertainment Corp.
- 6 games with Electronic Arts, Inc.
- 6 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 6 games with 2K China
- 6 games with Firaxis Games, Inc.
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