Tronster Hartley’s Path to Building Video Games at Firaxis

Tronster Hartley

Tronster Hartley always wanted to be a video game developer. It’s the reason he got a computer science degree.

Fresh out of college in 1998, he ran into the age old problem of getting the job of your dreams: The entry level job wants you to have experience, but you need the entry level job to get experience. Like most recent college graduates, he accepted the job that would hire him, making education software with Hunt Valley-based Sylvan Learning.

“After seven years of that, I just felt like there was a creative part of me that wasn’t being fulfilled,” said Hartley. He got into computer science to make video games, and wanted to get back on that trajectory.

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