David Wessman

David "Wotan" Wessman is a video game developer, who is best known for his work on the X-Wing computer game series. His industry career began in 1991 as a tester at LucasArts where he met Lawrence Holland and expressed his interest in joining Holland's team. He was subsequently hired as the internal test lead for the video game Star Wars: X-Wing and was a co-founder of what later became Totally Games. David soon transitioned to development, becoming a mission builder and lead writer; roles he would continue with on Star Wars: TIE Fighter. During this time he also co-authored the official strategy guides for both games, working with Rusel DeMaria and fellow mission builder David Maxwell. He was promoted to lead mission designer on Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter and "gameplay & story lead" on Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance.

After leaving Totally Games, Wessman was a lead or senior designer on Blood Wake (2001), Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004), Saints Row (2006) and Death Jr. 2: Root of Evil (2006).

In 2008 he left the game industry to teach game design at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, AZ. As a professor in game design he has taught at the graduate and undergraduate level, and since 2015 is a lecturer at Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands, but he also continues to develop games and his most recent effort is a hard science fiction space combat simulator called In The Black.

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