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David Mullich (born 1958, in Burbank, California) is a game producer and designer best known for creating the cult classic 1980 adventure game The Prisoner, producing the 1995 adaptation I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, and developing many games in the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise. With a career spanning more than twenty-five years, Mullich worked not only for some of the first computer game publishers, but went on to work for some of the biggest game companies of the today.

Career

Mullich's work in interactive fiction began at the birth of the computer game industry in 1978 when one of his computer science professors at California State University, Northridge hired him to work as a clerk and programmer at Rainbow Computing, the second computer store to open in the Los Angeles area. Many of the first game publishers bought Apple II computers at Rainbow Computing, including Sierra Online founder Ken Williams and Sherwin Steffin, who recruited Mullich to work as a developer at his new start-up game publishing company, EduWare Services.

Mullich designed most the EduWare's innovative line of adventure games and role-playing games, and programmed the company's proprietary graphics engine and AI routines. As the company grew, he managed additional programmers coding both entertainment and educational products designed by him and other members of the design staff. After five years, Mullich and several other key EduWare employees left to form their own company, Electric Transit, which specialized in 3-D simulation games and became Electronic Arts’ first affiliated label publisher.

In 1987, Mullich joined Walt Disney Computer Software, where he produced computer and console games based upon Disney characters, films, and television shows with external developers and licensees. Four years later he joined developer Interactive Support Group to create driving and action games for fifth generation console systems CD-I and 3DO. Mullich next rose to become development director at game publisher Cyberdreams, where he produced award-winning games in collaboration with notables such as science fiction author Harlan Ellison, fantasy artist H.R. Giger and horror director Wes Craven.

While participating in a game design panel at the Computer Game Developer’s Conference, David met Jon Van Caneghem, founder of veteran game developer New World Computing. Van Caneghem hired Mullich in 1997 to lead the thirty-person development team for Heroes of Might and Magic
. Mullich ran the team behind the best-selling strategy game franchise for five years, including the development of Heroes of Might and Magic III
, named by PC Gamer
magazine in 2005 as the 25th best game of all time.

With the financial demise of parent company The 3DO Company, Mullich left New World for software publishing giant Activision to produce Star Trek themed real-time strategy games and the Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines role-playing game based upon the Half Life 2 engine.

When his contract with Activision concluded, Mullich was hired by fellow Cyberdreams alumni Jamie Ottilie to be the development director of his mobile game publishing start-up, Abandon Mobile.

Married with children, Mullich makes his home in Valencia, California.

Titles developed or produced by Mullich span three decades. Most of his games are listed below in chronological order (non-entertainment titles excluded).

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