Roger Keating

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Roger Keating
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NationalityAustralian
OccupationVideo game designer
Known for Wargames

Roger Keating is an Australian computer game designer. [1] Along with Ian Trout, Keating co-founded of the video game company Strategic Studies Group, [2] [3] which is known for its strategic war and fantasy games with artificial intelligence. [4] Keating and Trout worked together on the majority of SSG titles.

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Early life

Keating was born in New Zealand. He moved to Australia in 1978 and worked as a mathematics and physics teacher. [5]

Career in game design

Keating created his first game, Conflict, in 1979. It was published by American software house Strategic Simulations. [5] Keating left his teaching job to program full-time, and published seven games while working with SSI during 1981 and 1982. Keating later worked as a school teacher in New Zealand. [6]

In 1983 Keating, along with Ian Trout formed Strategic Studies Group. Gregor Whiley joined the company in 1986 for the development of BattleFront . [7] The company created many strategy games over the following 25 years. After his business partner Ian Trout's death, both Keating and Whiley worked part-time at The Northern Sydney Institute for four years between 2011 and 2014 while developing their games part-time.[ citation needed ] They both moved to work for the Academy of Interactive Entertainment in 2015, where Keating taught programming.[ citation needed ]

List of games

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  16. ↑ Australian Centre for the Moving Image – http://www.acmi.net.au/global/docs/games_history_australia.pdf Archived 28 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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