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'''Jason Ely''' is Lead Server Engineer at [[StarCitizen:Cloud Imperium|Cloud Imperium Games]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/9Xy5pz7V7rI Star Citizen: Around the Verse 3.12 - Austin], YouTube, 3 Nov 2016</ref><br />
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== Early Years ==<br />
He started programming games when he was an early teen in the 1980s. <br />
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''Ultima'' was always his inspiration. He reversed engineered the ''Ultima'' games on the Commodore 64 and fixed a few bugs on the C64 version of ''Ultima 2.''<br />
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His first serious game project was an ''Ultima'' clone and a very sophisticated toolset for map and content generation. He sent it as part of his resume to [[StarCitizen:Origin Systems]] in 1988 but they were no longer doing C64 games and he needed to learn DOS, x86 Assembler and C.<br />
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He joined the Army and was eventually stationed at Ft. Hood Texas, close to Origin’s home base of Austin. <br />
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He purchased his first PC and began making a modern version of his toolset and game and ended up making an engine that used ''Ultima 6'' assets and a game editor that could be used to modify the ''Ultima 6'' game world directly. He got a job at Origin working on ''Ultima 8'' as a programmer and designer.<ref name=":0">[https://ultimacodex.com/interviews/we-had-a-lot-of-fun-with-the-other-explosives-an-interview-with-jason-ely/ We had a lot of fun with the other explosives - An interview with Jason Ely], Ultima Codex</ref><br />
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== Other Works ==<br />
He started working on ''Ultima 8,'' after which he chose to work with [[StarCitizen:Tony Zurovec]] and start the Crusader series.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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He later created the MMORPG ''Elderlands'' inspired by the Ultima series,<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comments/ren8k/i_am_a_oneman_team_developing_a_2d_morpg_c_from/ I am a one-man team developing a 2D MORPG (C++, from scratch). Anyone interested in testing?], reddit</ref> before joining Cloud Imperium Games.<ref>"[https://www.facebook.com/Elderlands/posts/780981171981874 A bit reason why I’ve been silent this past week is that I’ve changed my day job from Qualcomm to a game company called Cloud Imperium Games.]" Elderlands Facebook post by Jason Ely, <abbr>22 December 2014</abbr></ref><br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
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* Colonel Ely in in ''Crusader: No Remorse'' is based on him.<br />
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