Roger Keating
{{Short description|Australian computer game designer}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}
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Roger Keating is an Australian computer game designer.{{cite book|author=Chris Crawford|title=Chris Crawford on Game Design|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=USBbi1Dyw4sC&pg=PA192|year=2003|publisher=New Riders|isbn=978-0-13-146099-7|pages=192–}} Along with Ian Trout, Keating co-founded of the video game company Strategic Studies Group,[http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue160/S11_The_best_in_war_game.php "The best in war game software".] Compute's Getting Started With: Entertainment Software by Wallace Poulter[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-09-vw-14274-story.html "Will Fresno Survive? : Players Save, Destroy World—for Fun"]. 9 July 1986|PETER BAKER | Los Angeles Times which is known for its strategic war and fantasy games with artificial intelligence.{{cite book|author1=Rick Barba|author2=Ted Chapman|title=Warlords III: The Official Strategy Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FvGyjM_9FqYC|year=1997|publisher=Prima Games|isbn=978-0-7615-1199-1}} Keating and Trout worked together on the majority of SSG titles.
Early life
Keating was born in New Zealand. He moved to Australia in 1978 and worked as a mathematics and physics teacher.[http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/softline_2.4.pdf "Strategies of a Man Down Under"]. Softline, March 1983.
Career in game design
Keating created his first game, Conflict, in 1979. It was published by American software house Strategic Simulations. 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.{{cite book|author=Peter Watkins|title=High Tech, Low Tech and Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CvrtAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Deakin University|isbn=978-0-7300-0402-8}}
In 1983 Keating, along with Ian Trout formed Strategic Studies Group. Gregor Whiley joined the company in 1986 for the development of BattleFront.{{cite journal |last1=Chatteur |first1=Fiona |title=Computer Graphics Through the Screen of Strategic Studies Group |journal=Born Digital and Cultural Heritage Conference |date=2014 |page=4 }} 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|date=July 2017}} They both moved to work for the Academy of Interactive Entertainment in 2015, where Keating taught programming.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
List of games
- Computer Conflict (1980)
- Operation Apocalypse (1981)
- Southern Command (1981)[http://aar.applearchives.com/volume-4-1987/aar-v4n4.pdf "Game Review: Battles in Normandy"]. Australian Apple Review, page 40, bybb Gene Stephan.
- Germany 1985 (1983)
- RDF 1985 (1983)
- Reach for the Stars (1983){{cite book|author=David Myers|title=The Nature of Computer Games: Play as Semiosis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9ntAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2003|publisher=P. Lang|isbn=978-0-8204-6700-9|page=132}}{{cite book|author=Neal Roger Tringham|title=Science Fiction Video Games|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0o5qBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA390|date=10 September 2014|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4822-0388-2|pages=390–}}
- Baltic 1985: Corridor to Berlin (1984)
- Carriers at War (1984){{cite book|author=Peter P. Perla|title=The Art of Wargaming: A Guide for Professionals and Hobbyists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C_sjPhgaEzwC&pg=PA184|date=January 1990|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=978-0-87021-050-1|pages=184–}}{{cite book|author1=Ben Sawyer|author2=Alex Dunne|author3=Tor Berg|title=Game Developer's Marketplace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=846ilPyTMvQC|year=1998|publisher=Coriolis Group Books|isbn=978-1-57610-177-3|page=192}}
- Norway 1985 (1985)
- Europe Ablaze (1985)
- Battlefront{{cite book|title=Software Reviews on File|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YC4QAQAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Facts on File, Incorporated|page=29}}
- Russia: The Great War in the East 1941-1945 (1987){{cite book|title=Ten Years of Technology and Dedication|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zHdVAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Ziff-Davis Publishing Company|pages=112, 130}}
- Halls of Montezuma: A Battle History of the U.S. Marine Corps (1987)
- Rommel: Battles for North Africa (1988)
- Decisive Battles of the American Civil War Volume 1: Bull Run to Chancellorsville (1988)
- Decisive Battles of the American Civil War Volume 2: Gaines Mill to Chattanooga (1988)
- Decisive Battles of the American Civil War Volume 3: Wilderness to Nashville (1988)
- Gold of the Americas (1989)
- Panzer Battles (1990)
- MacArthur's War: Battles for Korea (1990)
- Warlords (1990)
- Carriers at War (1992)
- Carriers at War: Construction Kit (1993)
- Carriers at War II (1993)
- Warlords II (1993)
- Warlords II Scenario Builder (1994)
- Warlords II Deluxe (1995)
- Decisive Battles of WWII: The Ardennes Offensive (1997)
- Warlords III: Reign of Heroes (1997)
- Warlords III: Darklords Rising (1998)
- Warlords Battlecry (2000)
- Warlords Battlecry II (2002)[http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/100/100564p1.html "A Louder Battlecry"]. IGN
- Decisive Battles of WWII: Korsun Pocket (2003)
- Decisive Battles of WWII: Battles in Normandy (2004)
- Decisive Battles of WWII: Battles in Italy (2005)
- Battlefront (2007)
- Kharkov: Disaster on the Donets (2008)Australian Centre for the Moving Image – http://www.acmi.net.au/global/docs/games_history_australia.pdf {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228152127/http://www.acmi.net.au/global/docs/games_history_australia.pdf |date=28 February 2014 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.ssg.com.au/?page=about SSG Website], last updated in 2010
- [https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,14868/ Roger Keating] at MobyGames
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