Matt Firor is a video game producer and designer of massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
Education
Matt Firor"s first foray into online gaming was a failed attempt in 1987 to license The Scepter of Goth Bulletin Board System MUD. At Inter-Services Intelligence, Firor was co-designer and lead content developer for Inter-Services Intelligence"s multi-user Bulletin Board System game Tempest (later renamed Darkness Falls).
Career
Firor is best known for his involvement in games such as Dark Age of Camelot and The Elder Scrolls Online. The second, more successful project was the co-founding of Interesting Systems (Inter-Services Intelligence) with Rob Denton and two others, in 1990. Inter-Services Intelligence merged with Adventures Unlimited Software to form Mythic Entertainment in 1995.
Firor stayed at Mythic from 1995–2006, where he was the producer of most of Mythic"s titles, including the worldwide MMORPG bestseller Dark Age of Camelot and its first two expansions.
Firor was vice-president of product development at Mythic, where he was - along with chief operating officer Rob Denton - responsible for the management of all of Mythic"s development projects. In 2005-2006, he led up Mythic"s internal console technology team which assessed the future of MMORPGs on next-generation console platforms.
In June 2006, Firor left Mythic Entertainment to found Ultra Mega Games a consulting company specializing in online gaming services. August 1, 2007, Matt was hired by ZeniMax Media Incorporated., parent company of Bethesda Softworks, to head ZeniMax Online Studios.
Firor is currently the president of ZeniMax Online and running the division.
He and his team are working on The Elder Scrolls Online. Firor has lectured at the University of Virginia, the University of Southern California, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.