{"id":57526,"date":"2012-07-30T15:18:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T19:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=57526"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:21:02","slug":"boston-globe-howie-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/30\/boston-globe-howie-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe reports Howie &#8217;81 is game studio COO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57527\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/07\/image0017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57527\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/07\/image0017-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/07\/image0017-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/07\/image0017-295x393.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/07\/image0017.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Howie &#039;81<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Boston Globe<\/em> tech blogger Scott Kirsner reports that game development veteran Hank Howie &#8217;81 is the new chief operating officer of Boston game development studio Disruptor Beam.<\/p>\n<p>Howie is the former head of Blue Fang Games (creator of the top selling Zoo Tycoon game) and, more recently, the co-founder of Beach Cooler Games, which produced the mobile game Universal Movie Tycoon.<\/p>\n<p>Disruptor Beam is currently working on an online game tied to the hit HBO series <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/innoeco\/2012\/07\/social_gaming_startup_disrupto.html\">View story from <em>The Boston Globe<\/em>, July 30, 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe tech blogger Scott Kirsner reports that game development veteran Hank&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":57527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,133,217,224,11009],"tags":[11051,3269,10777,8414],"class_list":["post-57526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-creativity","category-science-technology","category-society-culture","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-engineering","tag-marketing","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95683,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57526\/revisions\/95683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}