Louis Castle

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Louis Castle is an American video game designer and entrepreneur. He helped shape the early days of Westwood Studios and later worked in major roles at several big game companies.

Career
Castle co-founded Westwood Studios with Brett Sperry in 1985. Westwood created many notable games, including Blade Runner (1997), where Castle contributed as executive producer, technical director, and art director. He also worked on various Command & Conquer titles.

In 1998, Westwood was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA). Castle continued at EA in executive and creative roles, including as the executive producer for Boom Blox and Boom Blox Bash Party, games developed for the Nintendo Wii in collaboration with Steven Spielberg. From 2003 to June 2009, he was Vice President of Creative Development at EA Los Angeles.

On July 15, 2009, Castle became CEO of InstantAction (GarageGames). After InstantAction shut down in November 2010, he moved on to become Senior Advisor for Premium FanPage in January 2011 and later joined Zynga as VP of Studios.

Castle also served as Chief Strategy Officer for Shuffle Master (SHFL Entertainment) in late 2011. He returned to game development as Creative Director for War Commander: Rogue Assault at Kixeye, which launched in 2016. On March 9, 2017, he became the head of Amazon Game Studios Seattle.

Recognition
Castle received the Computer Game Developers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Spotlight Awards in 1999. In 2009, he, along with Steven Spielberg and Amir Rahimi, won a BAFTA for Boom Blox.

Personal life
Castle lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his family. He served as the Grand Master of Masons in Nevada in 2020.