David Sirlin
American writer and game designer
David Sirlin is an American game designer and fighting game player.2
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About
He featured in and narrated much of Bang the Machine, a 2002 documentary by Tamara Katepoo about a Street Fighter "exhibition tournament in Japan showing the difference between American and Japanese gaming cultures" that starred other notable competitive fighting game players who were part of "Team USA."
He balanced the video games Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. He designed the physical and online card games Yomi, Flash Duel, Codex, and Puzzle Strike.
Early in his career, Sirlin was an assistant game designer at 3DO, but now works primarily for his own company, Sirlin Games. Sirlin has been described as a "renowned game theory author" by Forbes magazine, and as an "arcade guru" and "internet-renowned Street Fighter tournament player" by Ars Technica.
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Companies
- Sirlin GamesFounder9
Early life and education
Career
Occupation: game designer, professional gamer.5
- Date not recordedFounded Sirlin Games4
Backbone
While employed at Backbone Entertainment, Sirlin was lead designer behind Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, a remake of Super Street Fighter II Turbo. He was also in deliberation with Capcom in an attempt to acquire permission to use the Street Fighter characters in addition to original characters from his Fantasy Strike universe for his current project, Yomi, but was not granted it.
During development of Super Street Fighter II HD Remix, many interviews as well as a number of blog posts on Capcom Unity chronicle Sirlin's involvement in both the game's development as well the major design choices and changes made to the game itself.
Kongregate
Sirlin designed the online card game Kongai for the gaming website, Kongregate.
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Sirlin Games
More recently Sirlin has been involved in the design and production of his own games—particularly, a range of tabletop games, most taking place in and featuring characters from the Fantasy Strike fictional universe he created. Two of these games (Yomi and Flash Duel) attempt to recreate some of the game concepts found in the fighting games he is familiar with. The third game, Puzzle Strike, attempts to recreate the Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo experience. Another game, Pandante, is similar to Texas holdem poker, and Chess 2 is a redesigned, asymmetric version of Chess.
His most recently published game is Codex, a turn based game with elements from Magic: The Gathering and themes from RTS (real time strategy) games such as StarCraft.
The Magic: The Gathering card "Master of Predicaments" contains the flavor text "Designed by David Sirlin".
In January 2015 Sirlin created a podcast on his Patreon page discussing the possibility of creating a simple, accessible fighting game, and in June 2015, Sirlin announced that he would begin creating a fighting game set in and featuring characters from his Fantasy Strike universe. The resulting Fantasy Strike was released in Early Access on Steam in September 2017.
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Personal life
- CitizenshipUnited States6
Sirlin grew up in Sacramento, California and graduated from Rio Americano High School. He is the son of Ted (1923-2009) and Thela Sirlin. His father was a photographer and owner of Sirlin Photography Studios for over 40 years. David Sirlin currently lives in Emeryville, California. He has obtained degrees in mathematics and business from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MIT Sloan School of Management.
Sirlin married Lina Jemili in 2023.
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Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataDavid Sirlin on Wikidata
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- 9WikidataSirlin Games, Founder