Paul Neurath

Paul Neurath is a video game designer and creative director. He founded both Blue Sky Productions (later renamed Looking Glass Studios) and Floodgate Entertainment. He was the creative director of Zynga Boston. In 2014 he founded OtherSide Entertainment, that developed Underworld Ascendant, the third game in the Underworld series.

Neurath had a game credited to him as early as 1986, the computer adaptation of the Steve Jackson Games board game Ogre. As Creative Director at Looking Glass Studios, he oversaw such gaming titles as System Shock 2, Thief, Terra Nova and Flight Unlimited, as well as Ultima Underworld and its sequel.

Games credited Year Title 1986 Ogre Deep Space: Operation Copernicus 1988 Autoduel 1989 Space Rogue Omega 1992 Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss 1993 Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds 1995 Flight Unlimited Descent 1996 Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri 1997 Flight Unlimited II 1998 Thief: The Dark Project 1999 Thief Gold System Shock 2 Flight Unlimited III 2000 Thief II: The Metal Age 2002 Jane's Attack Squadron Arx Fatalis 2003 Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide 2018 Underworld Ascendant