Cevat Yerli
Cevat Yerli in NYC, 2022
Born1978 (age 45–46)
Coburg, West Germany
OccupationComputer game developer
Known forCo-Founder and former CEO & President of Crytek

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

In 2017 Cevat Yerli launched The TMRW Foundation, a new for-profit deep tech organization.[1]

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.[2][3] The company developed games such as Far Cry and the Crysis series.[4] In 2006 Cevat visited South Korea and, influenced by the country’s gaming culture, he launched Gface in 2012.[5] GFACE was a social gaming network that hosted free-to-play titles streamed over the internet.[5] Yerli was the director and executive producer on nearly all games until stepping down on 28 February 2018.[6]

Games created

Year Game Notes
2004 Far Cry creator, game director, executive producer
2007 Crysis creator, game director, executive producer
2011 Crysis 2 game director, executive producer
2012 Warface co-creator, executive producer
2012 Fibble Executive Producer
2013 Crysis 3 game director, executive producer
2013 Ryse: Son of Rome game director, executive producer
2014 The Collectables executive producer
2016 Robinson - The Journey executive producer
2016 The Climb executive producer

The TMRW Foundation

In 2017 Cevat launched a new company, The TMRW Foundation, independently from Crytek.[1] It is a for-profit organisation that develops AI- and 3D-related technologies.[7] One of the foundation’s initial projects involved being contracted by the UAE Ministry of Health in the creation of a metaverse service centre.[8] As of October 2022, the TMRW Foundation employed 100 people.[1] In 2022, Cevat and The TMRW Foundation premiered ROOM 3D at the GITEX Technology Fair in Dubai. ROOM 3D, a virtual teleconferencing platform, had taken approximately three years to develop and the aim is to reduce video call fatigue and let users interact with objects and their peers in a natural and learned way.[1][8][9][10] It is the first live product operating on patented and browser first RealityOS, a cloud-based social 3D communications platform which has been developed by the TMRW Foundation.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Cevat Yerli created Room for 3D animated Video Conferencing". Venture Beat.
  2. ^ "Cevat Yerli Biography". IGN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-12. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  3. ^ "Crytek Company Profile". Crytek. Archived from the original on September 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
  4. ^ "Cevat Yerli". IMDb. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  5. ^ a b Stuart, Keith; @keefstuart (2012-07-02). "Crytek's Cevat Yerli: free-to-play games are the only future". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  6. ^ "The CEO of Crytek has stepped down". Polygon. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
  7. ^ "Scaling the Metaverse Economy". NASDAQ.
  8. ^ a b "How Governments are Solving Real Problems In the Metaverse". Techonomy.
  9. ^ "This new service gives Zoom-style video calls a 3D video game twist". Fast Company.
  10. ^ "Bringing teams together again, 3D video communications platform ROOM launches their Founders Plan". Tech EU.
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