Welcome to Stellar Effect, Starr Long’s consulting company. Stellar Effect specializes in video game consulting for online games, educational games, crowd funding and crowd sourcing. Our clients include Mattel, Disney, and several investment firms.
Starr Long has been making video games for over twenty-five years. Over his multi-decade career Starr has partnered with visionaries like Richard Garriott and Lane Merrifield. Starr started his career at the legendary studio Origin Systems, where he was the director of Ultima Online. UO is the longest running MMO in history, and holds eight Guinness World Records. In 2000 Starr co-founded Destination Games with Richard and Robert Garriott. Starr’s industry acumen was recognized in 2008 when he was named one of the Top 20 Most Influential People in the Massively Multiplayer Online Industry by Beckett Massive Online Gamer Magazine.
Starr joined The Walt Disney Company as an executive producer in 2009. At Disney Starr produced the Disney Parent App for Facebook, 8 mini-games in Club Penguin, Club Penguin mobile 1.0, 5 Educational Game apps for iOS and the Disney Connected Learning Platform. In early 2013, Starr formed Stellar Effect. Later that year Starr joined Portalarium to work on Shroud of the Avatar, currently the second highest crowd funded video game ever to ship. Starr Long also does consultation work at The Acceleration Agency whose clients include Carnival Corporation, Universal, Disney, and College Forward.
Video game consulting services can include game design, development strategies, go to market planning, and market trend projections. If you would like to discuss a potential project please contact us at info@stellareffect.com
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