Don Daglow serves as an independent consultant and speaker on game design, development and production.

He advises Game Developers, Publishers, Licensors and Investors on issues of game design, product development, licensing and project management. His deep understanding of studio organization has led to work with clients on the creation and early-stage management of new game studios.

Recent projects include:
-- Game design on an upcoming casual title.
-- Production and management for a start-up with patented new technology relating to video games.
-- Design and production consulting for an entertainment company developing a new video game title.
-- Planning for the organization of a new game development studio for an established company.
-- Consulting for angel investors evaluating opportunities in the games business.


PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Don was selected for an Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering in 2008 for his work creating Neverwinter Nights, the first graphical Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). He is one of only three game designers or producers (with id Software's John Carmack and Blizzard's Mike Morhaime) to be selected both for a Technical Emmy and to accept an Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Achievement Award. Electronic Games magazine has called him "one of the best-known and respected producers in the history of the field," and in 2003 he received the CGE Award for "groundbreaking achievements that shaped the Video Game Industry."

Don served as president and CEO of Stormfront Studios for twenty years after founding the company in 1988. Prior to founding Stormfront, he served as director of Intellivision game development for Mattel, as a producer at a small start-up called Electronic Arts, and as head of Entertainment and Education Publishing at Broderbund.

He designed and programmed the first-ever computer baseball game in 1971 (now recorded in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown), the first mainframe computer role-playing game ("Dungeon" for PDP-10 mainframes, 1975), the first sim game (Intellivision Utopia, 1981) and the first game to use multiple camera angles (Intellivision World Series Major League Baseball, 1983). From 1985-87 Don produced two of the first three EA sports titles, and co-designed Computer Game Hall of Fame title Earl Weaver Baseball (1987, with Eddie Dombrower) as well as the original Neverwinter Nights for AOL (1991-97).

He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences in 2003 and again in 2007. He serves on the selection committee for the AIAS Randy Pausch Scholarship Fund, on the Advisory Board for GDC Europe, on the Advisory Board for Women in Games International (WIGI), and on multiple committees for the IGDA.

Don also is a past winner of the National Endowment for the Humanities New Voices playwriting competition, and has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

He speaks extensively around the world on the topics of game design, Interactive Media and the video games industry, and has delivered keynote addresses in Canada, Germany, the UK and the United States. He holds a BA in Writing from Pomona College and an Ed.M. from Claremont Graduate University.