Wardell is credited with multiple game projects either as a game designer or as an executive producer. Wardell takes an approach to game development allowing users to view and influence the process of making games.
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He has also presented at the Game Developer's Conference several times on topics ranging from code optimization to disasters in publishing. His particular expertise has focused on parallel computing, AI, graphics APIs and strategy games. Wardell has programmed, designed or executive produced a substantial number of video games and is regularly interviewed by game industry sites regarding his views on technology, game publishing and trends. He was a regular on the PowerUser.TV podcast, run by WinCustomize and Neowin, and organized the GUI Olympics (later GUI Championships), a semi-annual skinning competition starting in 2002. Wardell was a designer of OS customization programs such as WindowBlinds, Fences (software), and Object Desktop. Wardell is co-founder and webmaster of WinCustomize, a site specializing in the distribution of skins and themes for computer software. In 2012 he was the producer of Elemental: Fallen Enchantress. He subsequently designed The Political Machine and Elemental, as well as two expansions ( Dark Avatar and Twilight of the Arnor) to Galactic Civilizations II. Wardell designed Galactic Civilizations for Windows and its sequel, which became GameSpy's Game of the Year. When the OS/2 market collapsed, he shifted Stardock to Windows, heading development of PC game Entrepreneur (now The Corporate Machine) while coordinating the creation of WindowBlinds and other Object Desktop components. He led development of OS/2 Essentials, followed by Object Desktop, a package of utilities and desktop enhancements. Wardell was involved in the design and implementation of Galactic Civilizations for OS/2, one of the platform's few games. He graduated in 1994 with a degree in Electronic Engineering, specializing in Computer Engineering. Wardell built PCs and worked as a check proofer while studying at Western Michigan University.
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