David Candland
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David Candland, often nicknamed Evil Otto, is an interface designer and artist for video games. He is currently employed by Bungie Studios. Born in 1968 and raised in Seattle, Washington, his first job was working for Microsoft as a 3D Movie Maker and art intern. His gained first work experience in video games through the Marathon video game series, and after a great deal of work, he now works for Bungie. He has been married for over 30 years to his wife, Marcy. He has six children, named Adam, Dallin, Shaini, Lars, Kortney and Rylee. His entire family was featured on the Collector's Edition and Legendary Edition of Halo 3, where Chris Butcher showed how and how not to set up a home network. David Candland is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) and lives near Seattle, Washington.
He was credited as a user interface designer for Halo: Combat Evolved,[1] and then user interface artist and user interface designer for Halo 2.[2] As a result of his job role, he is referenced in an in-game easter egg hidden in the Heads-Up Display.
His younger brother, Dan Candland, (who David shared a bedroom with from 1970-1982) recounts that David came home one summer afternoon, after hanging out with a friend and said, "Dan, grab all of the quarters that you can and come with me! There's this really cool thing at the Laundromat." Dan continues that he was uninterested until he said that it was called, "Space Invaders". This got Dan's attention as the 2 brothers loved all things Sci-Fi; ever since they first saw "Star Wars" in the "Seattle Cinerama" movie theater in 1977. Soon coin-operated video games started showing up everywhere near their home in South Seattle, first at "Ken's Skyway Dry Cleaners and Laundromat", then at the "Skyway Park Bowling Alley", "Skyway Warehouse Market", even the local Skyway "7-Eleven" had two coin-operated video games. Then Arcades like "Command Center" at the "Renton Shopping Mall" (now downtown Renton Fred Meyer) and the "Silver Coin" at "SouthCenter Mall" in Tukwila. Soon the 2 brothers were dumping almost all of their hard earned money from delivering "The Seattle Times" newspapers into all of these coin-operated video games.
Trivia
Candland has been featured three times on Rooster Teeth's weekly series Fails of the Weak showcasing Halo fails, first when he splattered himself into a wall in the middle of a lunge, the second time when the driver of his Warthog failed to make a turn and drove into the water, and the third time when he was killed by a grenade to the crotch. He is currently the only known Bungie employee to have been featured.
