Starr Long has been making videogames and technology for over 30 years. During his career, he helped start the MMO industry and has created some of the largest Active Digital Twins ever built. He is the former Project Director of Ultima Online, which is now the longest running MMO in history and holds 8 Guinness World Records. In 2000, he co-founded Destination Games, acquired later that year by NCsoft. In 2008, Starr was named one of the Top 20 Most Influential People in the Massively Multiplayer Online Industry by Beckett Massive Online Gamer Magazine. In 2009, Starr joined The Walt Disney Company as an Executive Producer where he was in charge of multiple live virtual worlds, Disney Connected Learning, the Disney Parent App, and Club Penguin Mobile. During his tenure, My Disney Connected Learning mobile apps ranked in the top 10 in iOS educational and kids games (4 of top 5). He co-designed and patented a Social Graph Player Matchmaking Service (US Patent 9021369). He was the Executive Producer for the RPG Shroud of the Avatar at Portalarium, currently the second highest crowdfunded video game ever to ship. Starr is the owner of the video game consulting company: Stellar Effect (www.stellareffect.com).
Starr currently works at The Acceleration Agency (taa.io) whose clients include Carnival Corporation, Universal, Disney, INVI Mindhealth, the Port of Corpus Christi and more. His projects at TAA include large scale Active Digital Twins, a biometric driven suicide prevention app, a music marketplace, and an interactive video theatre platform.