Mike Booth

Michael Booth is an American video game designer and executive and the current chief creative officer of Bad Robot Games. He was also creator and lead designer of Left 4 Dead and founder of Turtle Rock Studios, later acquired by Valve Corporation.

Early career and Nox Throughout his career, Booth has generally focused on creating cooperative online multiplayer games, a genre for which he continues to advocate as recently as 2022. One of Booth's earliest projects was Nox, which he created in his apartment. He brought a demo to the Game Developers Conference, and ultimately, Nox was published in 2000 through the Westwood Studios division of Electronic Arts, with Booth in the roles of project lead and lead designer. and 2003's Command & Conquer: Generals. where he served as CEO and game director. In 2003, Booth programmed an official bot that enabled offline multiplayer play in Counter-Strike. He was project lead and lead designer for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, released in 2004. for which he was also lead designer.

Booth also was part of the creative teams for other Counter-Strike games and Team Fortress 2. Booth stayed on with the company until 2012. on an unannounced project.

From December 2015 until December 2019, he was director of social virtual reality (VR) at Facebook, working with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer. In April 2017, Booth led the beta rollout of Facebook Spaces, a social VR product created for Oculus Rift. Prior to the launch, Booth appeared in live VR demonstrations of the product in April

Booth joined the board of directors of Resolution Games in March 2020. He worked with Resolution on Demeo, a 2021 tabletop role-playing game originally created for VR. By February 2022, he had taken on the role of chief creative officer. Booth, along with Left 4 Dead creatives Gabe Newell and Chet Faliszek, won the British Academy Games Award for Multiplayer in 2009. Demeo, which Booth creative directed, was nominated for the D.I.C.E. Award for Immersive Reality Game of the Year.