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Video Game producer
Rachel Bernstein
Alma materPrinceton University
Occupation(s)Video game developer, Video game designer
Known forFrog City Software
Imperialism
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove
Trade Empires

Rachel Bernstein is a video game designer and developer based in San Francisco, USA.

Education

Bernstein graduated from Princeton University with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 1987.

Career

From 1987 to 1994, Bernstein worked as a software engineer. In 1994, she co-founded the company Frog City Software with the brothers Bill and Ted Spieth. Bernstein wrote the code and assembled a development team for a prototype that later became the game Imperialism. The project received funding from Strategic Simulations in 1995, with president Chuck Kroegel describing it as, 'the thinking man's Civilisation'. Imperialism was released in 1997 and has an IGN community rating of 7.8/10. Bernstein oversaw the development of games Imperialism II and Trade Empires, for which she wrote a detailed project breakdown. In 2003, Bernstein sold Frog City to Take-Two Interactive, but continued to run the company as Take-Two's subsidiary.

Bernstein joined Electronic Arts in 2007 and became an executive producer for Maxis, overseeing the development of the Wii version of MySims Agents (2009) and The Sims Medieval (2011).

Since 2013, Bernstein has served as an executive producer at Google for the Android Play Studio.

She has been a speaker at South by Southwest, TEDxYouth, and the 2016 Astra S.T.E.A.M. Summit in San Francisco.

References

  1. ^ "Meet Our Speakers". Astra S.t.e.a.m. Program. Astra STEAM. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  2. "History". Sidecar Studios. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  3. "Imperialism". IGN. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  4. "Postmortem: Frog City's Trade Empires". Gamasutra. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  5. ^ "TEDxYouth@Castilleja - RACHEL BERNSTEIN". TEDxYouth. 6 June 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  6. ^ Glasser, AJ; Rynak, Allison; Ely, Cara; Bernstein, Rachel (12 March 2013). How Women Are Driving the Gaming Industry Forward. South by Southwest. Hyatt Regency, Austin, TX.
  7. Paul, Ian (3 May 2013). "Android Play Studio hires, Google I/O 2013 lineup hint at game-filled future for Android". Techhive. Green Bot. Retrieved 13 December 2016.


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