< Back Doug Church Executive Producer, Electronic Arts Doug Church has been in the game industry since 1990, working on a variety of PC titles (Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Thief, a bit of Flight Unlimited thrown in) at what became Looking Glass Studios. He left in late 1999 and consulted on a variety of titles, a tiny bit on Ion's Deus Ex and Harmonix's Frequency, some MMP's in Hong Kong. Programmer by training, he focuses on game design and technology, and ways to elegantly blend the two. Doug also worked for Eidos where he was doing a variety of design direction, technology investigation, and management. In May 2005, he joined Electronic Arts Los Angeles as an executive producer. Doug Church recently spoke about the huge potential for industry and academic collaboration at the 2007 Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco (March 5 - 9, 2007). Church will discuss some hopes and fears about the collaboration and will consider what things might look like in the future and what opportunities (and obstacles) lie ahead. Church has been instrumental in developing relationships between industry and academia by serving as co-chair of the IGDA (International Game Developer's Association) Education Committee and helping develop curricula to train the next generation of game developers.