Henrique Olifiers
Encyclopedia
Henrique Olifiers is a Brazil
ian game designer specialized in creating media convergent game formats.
. There he developed around 30 web-based games, some of them multiplayer, such as Thorvarium 1 and 2. He developed one massive multiplayer online role-playing game called Herois e vampiros
(Heroes and Vampires). He was also the lead designer in the production of the games Conquista de Titã
, and My Big Brother
.
Interestingly, Olifiers is better known not as a game designer but as a gaming journalist. He conducted GamesMania Brazil, the South American arm of the worldwide GamesMania online magazine. As a chief-editor, he led the gaming portal in the early 90s.
After GamesMania Olifiers founded LagZero, a multiplayer-oriented gaming portal that later became the wider FinalBoss.com, currently the largest hardcore gaming portal in Latin America. FinalBoss.com is also a startup games development company.
Olifiers worked as Head of MechScape/Stellar Dawn at Jagex
Ltd until he left in 2009, joining social games developer Playfish
as Studio Director in the UK. He has been credited as the producer of FIFA Superstars, later named amongst the 10 top Facebook games of 2010 by InsideSocialGames.com.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian game designer specialized in creating media convergent game formats.
Career
Olifiers's last position in Brazil was as Head of Games at Globo TVRede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
. There he developed around 30 web-based games, some of them multiplayer, such as Thorvarium 1 and 2. He developed one massive multiplayer online role-playing game called Herois e vampiros
Herois e vampiros
Herois e Vampiros is a Brazilian online multiplayer trading card game, with a television convergence model originally broadcast by Globo TV.-The game:...
(Heroes and Vampires). He was also the lead designer in the production of the games Conquista de Titã
Conquista de Titã
Conquista de Titã is a virtual reality multiplayer game that is part of a television show in Brazil .-The game:...
, and My Big Brother
My Big Brother
This article is about the game. For the episode of Scrubs, see My Big Brother My Big Brother is a mobile game that emulates the Big Brother Brasil TV show in a cell phone using Java technology...
.
Interestingly, Olifiers is better known not as a game designer but as a gaming journalist. He conducted GamesMania Brazil, the South American arm of the worldwide GamesMania online magazine. As a chief-editor, he led the gaming portal in the early 90s.
After GamesMania Olifiers founded LagZero, a multiplayer-oriented gaming portal that later became the wider FinalBoss.com, currently the largest hardcore gaming portal in Latin America. FinalBoss.com is also a startup games development company.
Olifiers worked as Head of MechScape/Stellar Dawn at Jagex
Jagex
Jagex Games Studio, based in Cambridge, is the UK’s largest independent developer and publisher of online games. Jagex is best known for RuneScape, the world's largest free-to-play MMORPG....
Ltd until he left in 2009, joining social games developer Playfish
Playfish
Playfish, currently a property of Electronic Arts, is a developer of free-to-play social network games. Playfish was founded in 2007 by Kristian Segerstråle, Sebastien de Halleux, Sami Lababidi and Shukri Shammas. In October 2008, they secured USD$17 million in venture capital funding from Accel...
as Studio Director in the UK. He has been credited as the producer of FIFA Superstars, later named amongst the 10 top Facebook games of 2010 by InsideSocialGames.com.