Joseph Ybarra
From Stargate Worlds Wiki (SGW)
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| Joseph Ybarra | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Job: | Vice President of Product Development |
| Forum Name: | General Hammond |
Joe Ybarra is an industry veteran with an extensive list of accomplishments. As one of the founding members of Electronic Arts, Joe pioneered many of the now standard methods of game production and game company management, co-inventing the "Producer" role in game development.
Joe Ybarra has produced over 50 computer and video game titles, for platforms ranging from the original Apple, Commodore and Atari computers, through Nintendo, Sega, and Windows based PC titles. Some of his titles, such as Bards Tale, M.U.L.E., Starflight and Wasteland have been elected to Computer Gaming World's Hall of Fame. Julius Erving and Larry Bird Go One-on-One were in second place on Billboard's software best-seller chart throughout its two-year life span and The Shadow of Yserbius was awarded on-line game of the year in 1993 by Computer Gaming World. Some other games that Joe Ybarra has worked on are: M.U.L.E., Seven Cities of Gold, Starflight, Wasteland, Bard's Tale I, 2, & 3, Legacy of the Ancients, Heart of Africa, Touchdown Football, Arctic Fox, Archon, Adept: The Sequel to Archon, Deathlord, EOS: Earth Orbit Station, Rad Gravity (Nintendo), John Madden Football, Deluxe Print Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor, Fates of Twinion, Alien Legacy, Return to Atlantis, Battletech I & 2, Circuit's Edge, Shanghai II, Mars Saga, Grandslam Bridge, Meridian 59 , Age of Mythology, Zork Zero, Journey, Shogun, Legend of Arthur, Ghostbusters II, F-14 Eagle Flight Simulator, Deathtrack, Manhole CDROM, Cosmic Osmo, Starflight II, Mechwarrior, High Heat Baseball, & Army Men.
In addition to his legacy of pioneering computer entertainment titles, Joe Ybarra has been at the forefront of MMORPG computer gaming. He has produced and directed the development of three MMORPG titles, Shadow of Yserbius, Shadowbane, and The Matrix Online.
Joe Ybarra also has extensive experience marketing products worldwide, handling licensed material, and managing business development with third party developers. Joe has also been involved in the due diligence and acquisition of three software development companies including corporations in both Europe and Japan.
As an industry veteran and icon, Joe Ybarra will continue his legacy with Cheyenne Mountain EntertainmentTM as the Vice President of Product Development.
Post from Meet Your Development Team:
- "Hi, I’m Joe Ybarra, and they gave me the title of Vice President of Product Development. I’m one of the founders of CME, and one of the “grizzled old veterans” of our team.
- My passion for games has been lifelong, and I’ve had the pleasure of working on a whole lot of really fun and interesting games during my career. The best part of working on games is collaborating with the people that actually do the work. All I get to do is sign purchase orders, complain about the schedule, and kibitz on the game design. Everyone else gets to do the fun stuff. Sigh….
- Since joining CME I started playing Worlds of Warcraft and now have a level 60 female gnome warlock named SamCarter. I also had not seen any episodes of Stargate SG1 or Atlantis, and started watching from episode 1 sometime in September of last year. As of this writing I’m now on episode 15 of season 8 in SG1, and episode 9 of season 1 of Atlantis. That’s 176 episodes of Stargate; I’ve now seen more Stargate than any other TV show in my lifetime I only have 58 episode left to watch!!!
- And all this during my “spare time” after work.
- I also like professional sports, college basketball, golf (which I would actually like to play more often than once a year), reading, and fine dining.
- Last, if Stargate Worlds isn’t the best game ever built I guess it will be my fault. That’s why they gave me such a fancy title."
