 clifford michael bleszinski (born february 12, 1975), popularly known as cliffyb, is a video game designer, former design director for the game development company epic games, and the founder of boss key productions. he is most famous for his role in the development of the unreal franchise, especially 1999's unreal tournament, and the gears of war franchise. ==career== his first commercial game was made at age 17: an independently developed point-and-click adventure game called the palace of deceit: dragon's plight. bleszinski created the game while he was a student at bonita high school in la verne, california, and released it in 1991 via his own company, game syndicate productions. he also sent a copy of the game to tim sweeney, the founder of epic games (then known as epic megagames). sweeney was impressed with the game and hired bleszinski to work at epic.{{cite web|url=h
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