Julian Eggebrecht was president and creative director of Factor 5

Factor 5

Factor 5 GmbH is an independent software and video game developer. The company was originally co-founded by five former Rainbow Arts employees in 1987 in Cologne, Germany, which served as the inspiration behind the studio's name....

, a video game developer

Video game developer

A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...

 which was located in Marin County, California

Marin County, California

Marin County is a county located in the North San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. As of 2010, the population was 252,409. The county seat is San Rafael and the largest employer is the county government. Marin County is well...

, with additional R&D offices in Cologne, Germany.

Eggebrecht founded Factor 5 in Germany

Germany

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 in 1989 and moved the company to California

California

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 in 1996 for the purpose of closer working with their largest partner, LucasArts

LucasArts

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He was a technology partner in the development of the Nintendo

Nintendo

is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....

 Gamecube and Wii

Wii

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 consoles

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, and was a member of the Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

 PS3 Edge toolset group. He and teams from his company have pioneered many technological advancements in Audio and Visuals in video games with collaboration with Dolby Labs, THX

THX

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, and AMD/ATI

Ati

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His games include Turrican

Turrican

Turrican is a 1989 video game programmed and designed by Manfred Trenz. It was first developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, but was ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz personally programmed Turrican on the Commodore 64...

, Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones

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, International Superstar Soccer Deluxe

International Superstar Soccer Deluxe

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, and Contra. He served on the board of the IGDA and was a board member of the Game Developers Conference

Game Developers Conference

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At the 2007 Games Convention

Games Convention

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 Developers Conference Eggebrecht criticized the ESRB for random processing in the guidelines to the development of Lair, and called for improvement to the system.