COLLECTED WORKS JERK GUSTAFSSON

From making Quake maps to reviving Wolfenstein, with a master of firstperson videogame design

- By Reid McCarter

ENCLAVE
Developer Starbreeze Studios Publisher Swing Entertainment (EU), Conspiracy Games (US) Format Xbox Release 2002

CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: ESCAPE FROM BUTCHER BAY
Developer Starbreeze Studios, Tigon Studios Publisher Vivendi Universal Games Format PC, Xbox Release 2004

THE DARKNESS
Developer Starbreeze Studios Publisher 2K Format 360, PS3 Release 2007

CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: ASSAULT ON DARK ATHENA
Developer Starbreeze Studios, Tigon Studios Publisher Atari Interactive Format 360, PC, PS3 Release 2009

WOLFENSTEIN: THE NEW ORDER
Developer MachineGames Publisher Bethesda Softworks Format 360, PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox One Release 2014

WOLFENSTEIN: THE OLD BLOOD
Developer MachineGames Publisher Bethesda Softworks Format PS4, Xbox One Release 2015

WOLFENSTEIN II: THE NEW COLOSSUS
Developer MachineGames Publisher Bethesda Softworks Format PC, PS4, Xbox One Release 2017

INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE
Developer MachineGames Publisher Bethesda Softworks Format PC, Xbox Series Release 2024

Had it not been for Quake, Jerk Gustafsson might have been a bricklayer. Before he landed a role at Starbreeze Studios, the Swedish studio responsible for innovative firstperson games such as The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay and The Darkness, Gustafsson had spent more than ten years working in a completely different field. “My father had his own construction companies,” he explains. “I worked with him for a long time, and I also did a lot of creative work. I did a lot of fireplaces and chimneys and stuff like that.”