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Donald Mustard (born 1976) is an American video game designer, creative director, producer and writer. He is a partner at AGBO, the former Chief Creative Officer at Epic Games, and the co-founder of Chair Entertainment. He is best known as the co-creator of Fortnite and the creative director behind Shadow Complex and the Infinity Blade trilogy.
Mustard grew up in Houston, Texas. With the intention of becoming a filmmaker, he attended Brigham Young University and graduated in 2000 with a BFA in film. As a college student, Mustard produced several short films, including Gestures, which mixed computer graphics and live action. This led to freelance work at visual effects studios such as Industrial Light & Magic, Rhythm & Hues Studios and Digital Domain.
After college, Mustard joined computer graphics studio GlyphX along with his brother Geremy, where he created video game cutscenes for publishers such as Eidos Interactive, Activision and Sony. While there, Mustard wrote a story that he decided would fit a video game better than a film, and convinced GlyphX to produce it. The action-adventure game, Advent Rising, was released in 2005 for Xbox…
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