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alex seropian

alexander seropian -lrb- born 1969 -rrb- is an american video game developer , one of the initial founders and later president of bungie software products corporation , the developer of the `` marathon '' , `` myth '' , and `` halo '' video game series .
seropian became interested in computer programming in college and teamed up with fellow student jason jones to publish jones 's game '' '' .
the two became partners , and bungie grew to become the best-known apple macintosh game developer before being bought by microsoft in 2001 .
in 2004 , seropian left bungie and created wideload games , with the goal of streamlining game development .
wideload 's small core development team worked with outside contractors to produce `` stubbs the zombie '' and `` hail to the chimp '' .
wideload was acquired by disney in 2009 .
as part of the deal seropian became vice president of game development for disney interactive studios .
in 2012 he left the position to start industrial toys , a company focusing on mobile games .
