Stieg

The Turpitude team is anchored by Stieg Hedlund. As the Chief Creative Officer, Stieg drives and inspires the creative team with his top-notch design sensibilities and wealth of experience. He ensures that no design or visual material leaves the studio without meeting his high standards of excellence. His unique and varied experience is a key ingredient in allowing Turpitude to provide design expertise to property-holders, studios and publishers at any and all stages in the development of games.

Over the past 20 years Stieg has designed games for nearly every platform and genre and his products have sold well over 30 million units representing some $1.2 billion in retail sales. He has held design leadership positions within a who's who of game development companies, including Blizzard Entertainment, Ubisoft, Konami, and Sega.

Although he is probably best known for his work as the sole designer on the action RPG Diablo series, he also has contributed iconic games to each of the real-time strategy, tactical shooter, beat-'em-up and action-adventure genres.

In addition to working on licensed properties such as Frogger, the Tom Clancy's series and Die Hard games, he has also created original IP such as the megahit Diablo (the second best-selling PC series of all time, after The Sims) and Starcraft series, as well as the Nobunaga's Ambition and Romance of the Three Kingdoms series (each with more than 10 sequels and continuing popularity in Asia).