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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Eric Nylund was born in 1964, and spent his youth in California. He has a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a master's degree in Chemical Physics. In the 1990s, he was hired by Microsoft as a writer for the company's multimedia properties. He later moved on to serve as lead of Microsoft's Narrative Design team, tasked with world-building, developing character and story bibles, preparing materials for marketing, writing game manuals and scripts, consulting voice casting and directing voice actors, and coordinating with MS localization, legal, and geopolitical departments. | Eric Nylund was born in 1964, and spent his youth in California. He has a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a master's degree in Chemical Physics. In the 1990s, he was hired by Microsoft as a writer for the company's multimedia properties. He later moved on to serve as lead of Microsoft's Narrative Design team, tasked with world-building, developing character and story bibles, preparing materials for marketing, writing game manuals and scripts, consulting voice casting and directing voice actors, and coordinating with MS localization, legal, and geopolitical departments.<ref name="linkedin"/> He has written novels, backstory and scripts for several games, including ''Halo'', ''[[Wikipedia:Crimson Skies|Crimson Skies]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Gears of War|Gears of War]]''. ''Crimson Skies'' was written along with fellow ''Halo'' writer [[Eric S. Trautmann]]. In July 2013, he resigned his post as Microsoft's Director of Narrative Design, moving on to fill a similar role at the newly-established Amazon Game Studios.<ref name="linkedin">[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-nylund/25/99/42 '''LinkedIn''': ''Eric Nylund'']</ref> He resigned from Amazon in July 2015 in order to spend more time with his family, write more novels, and work on smaller-scale side projects.<ref name="resignation"/> | ||
Nylund is married to another sci-fi writer, Syne Mitchell. One of his personal heroes is Science Fiction writer Ray Bradbury. He was able to meet Bradbury at the San Diego Comic Con in [[2007 (real world)|2007]].<ref>[http://ericnylund.net/?p=100 Eric Nylund >> A Great Comic Con 2007]</ref> | Nylund is married to another sci-fi writer, Syne Mitchell. One of his personal heroes is Science Fiction writer Ray Bradbury. He was able to meet Bradbury at the San Diego Comic Con in [[2007 (real world)|2007]].<ref>[http://ericnylund.net/?p=100 Eric Nylund >> A Great Comic Con 2007]</ref> | ||
