Patrick Buckland
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Patrick Buckland | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 62–63) Blackheath Hospital, London |
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| Known for | Crystal Quest Carmageddon Duels of the Planeswalkers |
Patrick Buckland is a British video game programmer, designer and chief executive officer of Stainless Games, which he co-founded with Neil Barnden in 1994.
Career
[edit]In 1985 Buckland developed a Macintosh game, the shareware title Crystal Raider which he followed with Crystal Quest.
In 1993 Barnden and Buckland started up Stainless Software.[citation needed]
In 2013, Buckland was one of a consortium of British individuals who bought the rights back to the sports car manufacturer TVR, from Nikolay Smolensky.[1][2]
Personal life
[edit]He was born in London and moved to the Isle of Wight at the age of 2, where he lives on the Isle of Wight with his wife and two children. He is a direct descendant of geologist/palaeontologist William Buckland and his son, zoologist Frank Buckland.[3]
Buckland's father, John Buckland, was a composer and the protege of Ralph Vaughan Williams.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Sam Philip (7 June 2013). "TVR's back!". BBC. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- ↑ "TVR". TVR.
- ↑ "IGN: Stainless Games". Games.ign.com. Archived from the original on 15 April 2002. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ↑ "RVW's Letters - filtered by reference to 'Buckland'".
External links
[edit]- "Playing Catch Up: Stainless Games' Patrick Buckland", Alistair Wallis Gamasutra, 14 December 2006
- Official website