Cevat Yerli

Cevat Yerli (born 1978 in Coburg, Germany) is a German computer game developer of Turkish descent. He co-founded Crytek, one of the largest video game developers in Germany, and served as its CEO and President until February 2018. Yerli was born in Germany to Turkish immigrants from Giresun.

Cevat Yerli
Yerli
Born1978 (age 42–43)
Coburg, West Germany
OccupationComputer game developer
Known forCo-Founder and former CEO & President of Crytek

Yerli founded Crytek in 1997 and formally turned it into a company in 1999. His brothers, Faruk and Avni, joined Crytek in 2000 and 2001, respectively.[1][2] The company developed games such as Far Cry and the Crysis series.[3] Cevat Yerli was the director and executive producer on nearly all of the company's multi-award winning games until stepping down on the 28th of February 2018. He is also the creator of one of the most powerful game development platform CryENGINE and the game industries first true real time 3D engine where one could continuously create and play in real-time in its Editor named Sandbox, Sandbox introducing WYSIWYP standing for "what you see is what you play". This way of creating and developing games introduced by CryENGINE in 2001 at GDC is now the modern way of creating games.[4][5][6][7][8]

Games Created
YearGameNotes
2004Far CryCreator, Game Director, Executive Producer
2007CrysisCreator, Game Director, Executive Producer
2011Crysis 2Game Director, Executive Producer
2012WarfaceCo-Creator, Executive Producer
2012 Fibble Executive Producer
2013Crysis 3Game Director, Executive Producer
2013Ryse: Son of RomeGame Director, Executive Producer
2014 The Collectables Executive Producer
2016 Robinson - The Journey Executive Producer
2016 The Climb Executive Producer

References
  1. "Cevat Yerli Biography". IGN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-12. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  2. "Crytek Company Profile". Crytek. Archived from the original on September 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
  3. "Cevat Yerli". IMDb. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  4. "The CEO of Crytek has stepped down". Polygon. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
  5. GameStar.ru Shooting range. Cevat Yerli: «In the short term, social components and core games are going to merge». Archived November 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Hit List - Cevat Yerli". www.interactive.org. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  7. "Time for Action - Sandbox and WYSIWYP". packtpub.com.
  8. "CryEngine General". CryEngine.com.
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