Spring 1998

Alumnus, '98 grad hit target with top-selling computer game

The nation’s most popular selling computer game is the result of a unique entrepreneurial effort by Rose-Hulman alumnus Anthony Campiti, a 1990 computer engineering major, and 1998 computer science/mathematics graduate Nate Terpstra.

“Deer Hunter” has been the top-selling computer game for the past two months, according to PC Data’s benchmark hit list. The game ($19.95) sold 60,000 copies in one month through Wal-Mart and other department stores.

That success doesn’t surprise Campiti, whose Indianapolis-based computer software company, Sunstorm Interactive, developed the game for GT Interactive.

“The success has been overwhelming. We get e-mail from children who can’t get their dad off the computer,” Campiti said.

Terpstra was a member of the three-person programming team during a summer internship through Rose-Hulman’s Entrepreneurial Internship & Co-operative Education Program. He completed the software program during the fall quarter, graduated this winter, and is now employed at Motorola in Schaumburg, Ill.

Sunstorm and Terpstra each earned special credits on the game’s main menu.

“Deer Hunter” is a wildlife-shooting simulation game that allowed persons to hunt deer with a shotgun, rifle or bow.

Sunstorm’s “Internet Card Games” developed with assistance from Rose-Hulman junior computer science major Nate Ingalsbe, will be available later this year.