Dr. Cat
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Dr. Cat is president, co-founder, executive producer
Game producer
A video game producer is the person in charge of overseeing development of a video game.The earliest documented use of the term producer in games was by Trip Hawkins, who established the position when he founded Electronic Arts in 1982...

 and creative director of Dragon's Eye Productions
Dragon's Eye Productions
Dragon's Eye Productions, Inc. is a PC game developer and publisher based in Round Rock, Texas.-History:It has released two online games, the graphical MUD DragonSpires in 1994 and the MMOSG Furcadia in 1996. Dragon's Eye Productions continues to develop Furcadia.Founded by Dr...

. He is best known for creating the 2003 Independent Games Festival
Independent Games Festival
The Independent Games Festival is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry. It was founded in 1998 to assist and inspire innovation in video game development and to recognize the best independent video game developers...

 finalist MMORPG
MMORPG
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....

 Furcadia
Furcadia
Furcadia is a MMOSG/MMORPG or graphical MUD, set in a fantasy world inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures. The game is based on user-created content, socializing and free-form roleplaying...

 with game artist
Game artist
A game artist is an artist who creates art for one or more types of games. Game artists are responsible for all of the aspects of game development that call for visual art...

 Talzhemir. In the game Furcadia his character goes by the name "Felorin".

He has worked (in various capacities) for Origin
Origin Systems
Origin Systems, Inc. was a computer game developer based in Austin, Texas that was active from 1983 to 2004...

, Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

, Accolade, Microprose
MicroProse
MicroProse was a video game publisher and developer, founded by Wild Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as Microprose Software. In 1993, the company became a subsidiary of Spectrum HoloByte and has remained a subsidiary or brand name under several other corporations since...

, Apogee
3D Realms
3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...

, and Time Warner Interactive, among others. Notable titles he has significantly contributed to include the Ultima series and DragonSpires
DragonSpires
DragonSpires is a series of massively multiplayer online games or graphical MUDs that share the same name and a common history. The original DOS version of DragonSpires was launched in 1994.- Original version :...

. A Dr. Cat character exists in some Ultima games, notably as a bartender in Ultima V
Ultima V
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny is the fifth entry in the computer role-playing game series Ultima.-Plot:After having mastered the eight Virtues, attaining Avatarhood and retrieving the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom in the previous game, the player is summoned back to Britannia by his old comrades Iolo...

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Dr. Cat lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and currently works at Lolapps, Inc..
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