Editing Richard Garriott (section)

{{Short description|American video game developer, entrepreneur and space tourist (born 1961)}}
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| image       = Richard garriott july 2008.jpg
| name        = Richard Garriott
| caption     = Garriott in July 2008
| citizenship = [[United States nationality law|American]], [[British nationality law|British]]<ref name="pcgcitizen">{{cite news|title=One on One With Richard 'Lord British' Garriott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kZskAQAAIAAJ |date=August 2007 |location=UK |work=[[PC Gamer]] |page=11 |access-date=April 1, 2016|quote=PCG: 'How did you come by the alias of Lord British? You're obviously not English.' Richard Garriott: 'Actually, that's not true&nbsp;... I am a British citizen. That said, I only lived there for about two months prior to moving to the States.'}}</ref>
| birth_name  = Richard Allen Garriott
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1961|7|4|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Cambridge]], England
| occupation  = [[Video game developer]]
| known for   = {{ubl|[[Ultima (series)|''Ultima'' series]]|[[Origin Systems]]|[[Space tourism|Private astronaut]]}}
| awards      = [[Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame|AIAS]] Hall of Fame Award (2006)<ref>{{cite web|title=D.I.C.E Special Awards|url=http://www.interactive.org/special_awards/details.asp?idSpecialAwards=1|access-date=22 January 2017}}</ref>
| relatives   = [[Robert Garriott]] (brother)
| parents     = {{Plainlist |
* [[Owen K. Garriott]]
* Helen Garriott
}}
| spouse      = {{marriage|[[Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux|Laetitia Pichot de Cayeux]]|2011}}
| children    = 2
  | module    = {{Infobox astronaut | child=yes
  | image     = 
  | type      = [[Space Adventures]] private astronaut /<br /> [[List of films featuring space stations|cast of a film in a space station]]
  | rank      = 
  | selection = 
  | time      = 11d 20h 35m
  | mission   = [[Soyuz TMA-13]]/[[Soyuz TMA-12|TMA-12]]
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  |}}
|}}

'''Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux''' (''[[né]]'' '''Garriott'''; born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American [[video game developer]], [[entrepreneur]] and private astronaut.

Garriott, who is the son of [[NASA]] astronaut [[Owen Garriott]], was originally a [[game designer]] and [[game programmer|programmer]], and is now involved in a number of aspects of [[computer game|computer-game]] development. On October 12, 2008, Garriott flew aboard the [[Soyuz TMA-13]] mission to the [[International Space Station]] as a private astronaut,<ref name="Chron">{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6052360.html|title=$30 million buys Austin resident a ride on Soyuz mission|access-date=October 12, 2008|publisher=[[The Houston Chronicle]]|year=2008|author=Mark Carreau}}</ref><ref name="garriottinspace">{{cite news| url = http://www.space.com/news/070928_garriott_spacetourist.html | title = Former Astronaut's Son Signs on as Next Space Tourist|author=Tariq Malik|publisher= SPACE.com | access-date = 2007-10-09}}</ref> returning 12 days later aboard [[Soyuz TMA-12]]. He became the second space traveler, and first from the United States, to have a parent who was also a space traveler. During his ISS flight, he filmed a science fiction movie ''[[Apogee of Fear]]''.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/14/richard-garriott-space-movie_n_1206198.html Richard Garriott's "Apogee Of Fear," First Sci Fi Movie Ever Shot In Space, Fails To Launch], Huffington Post, January 14, 2012</ref>

The creator of the ''[[Ultima (series)|Ultima]]'' game series, Garriott was involved in all games in the series, and directly supervised all eleven main installments, starting with 1979's ''[[Akalabeth: World of Doom]]'' and concluding with 1999's ''[[Ultima IX: Ascension]]''. Within the context of ''Ultima'', Garriott presented himself as the fictional persona of [[Lord British]]. The series is considered influential, notably helping with establishing the [[computer role-playing game]] genre. He founded the video game development company [[Portalarium]] in 2009.<ref name="portal-about">[http://www.portalarium.com/index.php/about About – Portalarium] from official company website</ref> He was CEO of [[Portalarium]] and creative director of ''[[Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues]]''<ref name="Google+">{{cite web|url=https://plus.google.com/112005436102690952317/posts/9DxEPYAu4ty|title=By the way...|first=Richard |last=Garriott de Cayeux|access-date=August 1, 2011|publisher=Google+|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414165129/https://plus.google.com/112005436102690952317/posts/9DxEPYAu4ty|archive-date=2017-04-14}}</ref> until 2018 when he shed the title,<ref name="MassivelyOP">{{cite web|url=https://massivelyop.com/2018/10/12/shroud-of-the-avatars-richard-garriott-sheds-ceo-title-for-creative-director-role/|title=Shroud of the Avatar's Richard Garriott sheds CEO title for Creative Director role|first=Richard |last=Garriott de Cayeux|date=12 October 2018 |access-date=September 30, 2020|publisher=Massively Overpowered}}</ref> later relinquishing all ''Shroud of the Avatar'' assets to Catnip Games in 2019.<ref name="Portalarium">{{cite web|url=https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/catnip-games-acquires-shroud-of-the-avatar.159409/|title=Catnip Games Acquires Shroud of the Avatar|access-date=September 30, 2020|publisher=Portalarium}}</ref>