Valve hires Thief designer Doug Church

by Steve Watts, Mar 17, 2011 9:15am PDT

Notable PC game designer Doug Church has joined Valve, the company confirmed yesterday. Gamasutra reports that according to marketing VP Doug Lombardi, Church started at the company a couple of weeks ago. Lombardi was unable to say which, if any, project Church has been assigned to.

Church has a long resume from the classic days of PC gaming, including work on the Thief, System Shock, and Ultima series. He moved on to Eidos as a technical director, then went to EA's Los Angeles office where he worked on the now-canceled Spielberg project.

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- Stealth in Episode 3 confirmed! : Mad Brahmin Disease
- Great news! : vx2o
- Photo Voyeur Pro: Episode 1 Enter the Locker Room : mastermike569
- Summary: Notable PC game designer Doug Church has joined Valve, the company confirmed yesterday. : SporkyReeve
- HEV MkV Sub-revision 2 - Sub-surface photo detectors integrated, average light exposure indicator added t... : RaptorII
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  OMG VALVE UO CLONE! : supermonkeyballz
  - New Ultima Underworld type game would be a dream come true for me. : vx2o
- Ultima Underworld FTW : tigeN
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  wow. valve keeps hiring some of the most interesting people in the field. I wonder how much impact he wil... : jccalhoun
  - They probably haven't even started. : trelain
- Interesting. Hope this goes somewhere fun. : Conan
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  Hello Mr. Taffer : get_navi
  - The G-Man is Benny!? : RaptorII
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  I would really like a good stealth first person RPG out of this that would be great. Someone's gotta com... : synic0
  - I wish I could send a team of consisting of Sam Fisher, Garrett, and Agent 47 to whack all the Splinter C... : Dr_Cube
- Ken Levine just talked about how working with Doug Church as a major influence over him on the PAX Feedba... : silentdante
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  How many years has it been since a game with you having a hand in it actually came out?
  
  What a waste of your time at EALA, Doug. I hope you'll lead your own team at Valve.
  
  Mar 17, 2011 7:37pm PDT
  
  How many years has it been since a game with you having a hand in it actually came out? What a waste o... : Xulu
- Sounds like a good combination to me. Those are some quality games under his belt. : Dr_Cube
- Good move there. Valve hires talent AND passion. : Lukiopimp
- guess they're restarting episode 3 again : chazums
- So in 9 or 10 years we should see his next game. : baron calamity

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