Wolfenstein
Silas Warner, an American programmer and an employee of software company Muse Software, was a pioneer of early video game development, especially the stealth genre. He had access to computers in college, and when he worked for the IBM Mainframe architectures before joining Muse Software. The computer he used for game-development, P.L.A.T.O., was one of the firsts with multiple functioning terminals and an example of early computer networks. Warner developed, with P.L.A.T.O., a series of classic video games like his flight simulator and arcade shooter. Inspired by the arcade shooter video game "Berzerk" and the 1961 war film "Guns of Navarone", he developed "Castle Wolfenstein", a stealth-adventure video game in which the player controls an unnamed American prisoner of war as he steals German files containing secret war plans, while avoiding, disarming or at times killing hostile guards and trying to escape the fortified Nazi stronghold 'Castle Wolfenstein', set in World War II. The game was published in 1981 by Warner's company M.U.S.E. Inc. (Muse Software).
List of Raven Software games
Raven spent the next decade working on a few original titles such as "Soldier of Fortune", as well as licensed games, including the "Star Wars" games "" (2002) and "" (2003) and the "X-Men" titles "X-Men Legends" (2004) and "" (2006). By 2009, the company had three development teams, and released the licensed title "Wolfenstein" (2009) while working on their first original game since 2002, "Singularity" (2010). Both "Wolfenstein" and "Singularity" sold poorly, however, and Raven laid off employees after each title, consolidating into a single development team by October 2010, shortly after "Singularity"s release. Following the layoffs, Raven focused exclusively as an assistant developer for the "Call of Duty" series, which has the position of lead developer rotate between Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer Games. Raven was the primary developer on two titles since then: the China-exclusive "Call of Duty Online" (2015), and "" (2016), a remake of the 2007 "" packaged with "". Raven Software has worked on 32 titles since its founding, 10 of them "Call of Duty" titles, including their latest game "" (2017).