# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denis-dyack
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:26:37.132Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denis-dyack"
name: "Denis Dyack"
slug: "denis-dyack"
description: "Denis Dyack is a Canadian video game developer and the CEO of Apocalypse Studios. He is also the former president of Silicon Knights, and is a video game designer, writer, director and producer. Dyack directed Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, and is directing Deadhaus Sonata. Dyack was inducted into the Canadian Gaming Hall of Fame by the Canadian Game Development Talent Awards in November 2011."
tagline: "Canadian video game developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Denis_Dyack_in_E3_2003.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-07-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.87506
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/denis-dyack-4a94a61/"
    handle:    "denis-dyack-4a94a61"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1212831/"
    handle:    "nm1212831"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Dyack"
    title: "Denis Dyack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Dyack"
    title: "Denis Dyack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Dyack"
    title: "Denis Dyack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Dyack"
    title: "Denis Dyack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Dyack"
    title: "Denis Dyack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3022668"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump