Richard Garriott

Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux né Garriott is a Britishborn American video game developer entrepreneur and private astronaut Garriott who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott was originally a game designer and programmer and is now involved in a number of aspects of computergame development On October 12 2008 Garriott flew aboard the Soyuz TMA13 mission to the International Space Station as a private astronaut returning 12 days later aboard Soyuz TMA12 He became the second space traveler and first from the United States to have a parent who was also a space traveler During his ISS flight he filmed a science fiction movie Apogee of Fear The creator of the Ultima game series Garriott was involved in all games in the series and directly supervised all eleven main installments starting with 1979s Akalabeth World of Doom and concluding with 1999s Ultima IX Ascension Within the context of Ultima Garriott presented himself as the fictional persona of Lord British The series is considered influential notably helping with establishing the computer roleplaying game genre He founded the video game development company Portalarium in 2009 He was CEO of Portalarium and creative director of Shroud of the Avatar Forsaken Virtues until 2018 when he shed the title later relinquishing all Shroud of the Avatar assets to Catnip Games in 2019