Karl Roelofs

Quick Facts

Full Name	Karl Roelofs
Occupation	Designer
Date Of Birth	Sep 11, 1964(1964-09-11)
Age	60
Country	United States
Birth City	Charlottesville
Horoscope	Virgo

Karl Roelofs Biography

Karl Roelofs is one of the most popular and richest Designer who was born on September 11, 1964 in Charlottesville, United States. Karl Roelofs (born September 11 1964) is an American video game developer who is famous for the development of his MacVenture game Shadowgate. He co-founded the company for video game development Zojoi, LLC with Dave Marsh.

On the 26th of October on 2012 on the 26th of October, 2012, Shadowgate’s Kickstarter Campaign for Shadowgate began to go live, and featured Karl Roelofs appearing beside Dave Marsh in the campaign’s pitch video. The campaign had a goal for funding of $120,000 and was planned to run for a period of 31 days. The campaign succeeded and it had raised $137,232 of pledges as of November 25 in 2012. After that the new, reimagined Shadowgate was put into production. If the response to the new version of Shadowgate is positive enough, Karl and Dave have expressed interest in developing their original ideas for the sequel Beyond Shadowgate, as well as bringing back the reimagined variants that include Uninvited as well as Deja Vu I and II .

On March 7, 2012, Karl Roelofs co-founded Zojoi, LLC with Dave Marsh. They had reacquired the rights to the ICOM Simulations properties which included the rights to Shadowgate, Uninvited, and Déjà Vu I and II and materials such as the master recordings for the Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective games.

Apart from his credits in video games, Karl Roelofs is also the author of a patent for a gaming device and method. The patent is a description of a game play mechanism for gaming machines in which specific icons gathered from spinning reels can be stored within a grid and then reloaded in empty areas of the reel to form a winning combo. Karl developed this patent while working for Video Gaming Technologies. It was submitted on February 1st, 2008 and approved by the US Patent Office on January 17, 2012.

Karl Roelofs Net Worth

Karl Roelofs is one of the richest Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Karl Roelofs 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Karl Roelofs began his career as a video game developer in 1985 when his close acquaintance Dave Marsh enlisted him to assist in the design of the video game that was developed to be developed by ICOM Simulations. Karl was always aspired to become writer, and saw a chance in Dave’s proposal. He took the opportunity to create and write an adventure game for fantasy and started working together with Dave to develop their first game, which was later dubbed Shadowgate. Karl was employed by ICOM Simulations in 1987 after the company had launched their first two MacVenture games: Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True Uninvited as well as while working on and working on and Shadowgate.

It was 1993 when ICOM Simulations was purchased by Viacom, Inc. and was renamed “Viacom New Media”. Karl began working on games inspired by MTV as well as Nickelodeon properties, like Nickelodeon The Rocko’s Modern Life: Spunky’s Dangerous Day. Following the time that Viacom stopped operating Viacom New Media on the 28th of October 1998 Karl Roelofs went on to work for a few short periods with Konami of America and Kesmai Studios/Electronic Arts. One of the highlights of this time was his participation in the online version of Settlers of Catan. Settlers of Catan for MSN Zone.

Despite the unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign, Karl and Dave were able to obtain funding through other means for the Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective mysteries. The first three mysteries were released on September 18, 2012 over iTunes for the iPad 2 and newer models, and on October 7, 2012 over Desura for Windows and OS X. Karl and Dave took their experience with the campaign for Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective and applied what they had learned for their next Kickstarter campaign for Shadowgate. Instrumental to this was that Shadowgate would be re-imagined and that it be in pre-production so that they could clearly communicate their vision through visuals, audio, and art.

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Karl Ranked on the list of most popular Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Karl Roelofs celebrates birthday on September 11 of every year.