
Tony Goodman is an American video game developer and executive. He was the founder and/or co-founder of Ensemble Corporation, Ensemble Studios, and Robot Entertainment.
Career[]
Tony Goodman founded Ensemble Corporation in 1989. This was a information technology consulting firm based in Dallas, and grew to include over 100 employees. Meanwhile, he set up Ensemble Studios in 1995 with his brother Rick Goodman and John Boog-Scott. When Ensemble Corporation was sold off to USWeb Corporation in 1998, Tony Goodman turned his full attention to Ensemble Studios.
Ensemble Studios and Microsoft[]
After Ensemble Studios was incorporated in February 1996, Tony Goodman served as the CEO and art director of Ensemble Studios.
In May 2001, Microsoft acquired Ensemble Studios and all of its intellectual property, including the Age of Empires series. From this point onwards, Tony Goodman's role shifted to that of a Studio Director, a role he kept until Ensemble Studios was closed in 2009 after developing Halo Wars.
Latter career[]
Tony Goodman jumped from one studio to another following the closure of Ensemble Studios. In 2009, he was the founding CEO of Robot Enertainment, the eventual developer of Age of Empires Online and the Orcs Must Die! series. However, he left that company in 2010, stating his "contributions as CEO at Robot were completed after we successfully transitioned from a vision to a flourishing game studio."
In 2012, he founded PeopleFun along with fellow Ensemble Studios veterans John Boog-Scott and Angelo Laudon. This company would focus on mobile games, and would become fairly successful in that realm, with over 150 million game installs on mobile devices by 2021. He remains the CEO as of May 2021.
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Tony Goodman ยท Brian Sullivan ยท Bruce Campbell Shelley ยท Dave Pottinger ยท Sandy Petersen ยท Angelo Laudon ยท Brad J. Crow ยท Matt Pritchard ยท Stephen Rippy ยท Richard Geldreich | |
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Bert Beeckman ยท Peter Piepenburg ยท Alexander Fleger ยท Matt Pritchard ยท Richard Geldreich ยท Atomhawk | |
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