In 1985, Joseph B. Hewitt IV began making computer games at a time when the job of “game designer” was still taking shape. There were programmers, artists, writers, and producers, but at smaller studios the boundaries between those jobs were often thin. An artist might help design a puzzle, a programmer might determine how combat worked, and a technical problem with graphics could become a design decision that affected the entire game.
Hewitt belonged to that generation. He started with educational software while he was still young enough to be attending an after-school computer program, moved into the small Las Vegas company that became Westwood Studios, and spent roughly fourteen years touching the art or design of a remarkable portion of Westwood’s catalog. BattleTech, Eye of the Beholder, The Legend of Kyrandia, Dune II, The Lion King, Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, and Lands of Lore all pass through his career in one way or another.
His importance is not simply that his name appears in a long list of credits. Hewitt was often the person dealing with the practical problems that stood between an idea and a working game: how to make a few animation frames look more elaborate than they were, how to squeeze detailed artwork into severe memory limits, how to recolor the same tank for several factions without storing multiple copies, or how to make a mouse command understandable without forcing a player through an unnecessary menu.
Because Hewitt later wrote and spoke extensively about those years, his career also provides something unusually valuable in video game history: a first-person view of how a small group of developers in Las Vegas helped build some of the defining computer games of the late 1980s and 1990s.
From Computer Tutoring to Professional Game Art
Hewitt’s route into the industry began at a tutoring business known as the Computer Learning Center for Children, later called Computer Tutors. The same organization operated an educational software company called Unicorn Software. Hewitt recalled that he attended the program as a student around 1984 and 1985, then began producing artwork while still in school before working there full time after graduating in 1986.
His first professional game was the Commodore 64 version of Animal Kingdom, later associated with the title The Wonders of the Animal Kingdom. The payment was memorable. Hewitt said he received a KoalaPad graphics tablet worth roughly sixty dollars. He subsequently created graphics for a substantial number of Unicorn’s educational releases, leaving his initials, “JBHIV,” on many title screens.
The surviving list of Unicorn projects attached to Hewitt’s name includes titles such as 10 Little Robots, Fraction Action, Percentage Panic, Read-A-Rama, Tales from the Arabian Nights, and other educational programs. The work may seem far removed from Command & Conquer, but it taught skills that remained important throughout his career. Computers had little memory, palettes were restrictive, and artwork had to communicate clearly within technical limits. An artist who understood those limits could be as valuable for problem solving as for drawing.
Hewitt eventually clashed with Unicorn over his employment arrangement. In a 2024 recollection, he described giving the company an ultimatum over being treated as an employee rather than an independent contractor. The confrontation ended with his departure. By his own telling, he had packed up his belongings expecting that possibility.
That dispute unexpectedly opened the door to Westwood.
Joining Westwood Associates
Brett Sperry had previously worked at Unicorn Software before founding Westwood Associates with Louis Castle. Hewitt remembered Sperry being sympathetic to what had happened and hiring him even though Hewitt had left Unicorn without much of his previous work to show. In another telling, Hewitt learned through acquaintances that people connected with his former workplace were building what someone described to him as a “real game company.” He was initially skeptical, but the introduction led to a job.
Westwood was still far from the large studio remembered by Command & Conquer fans. Founded in Las Vegas in 1985, the company initially did extensive contract and conversion work, bringing games to systems such as the Amiga, Atari ST, and other computers. Strategic Simulations, Inc., better known as SSI, became one of its important publishing partners. Westwood worked on titles ranging from Hillsfar and DragonStrike to its increasingly ambitious role-playing projects.
Hewitt entered that environment as an artist, but the looser structure of early game development meant that art and design regularly overlapped. He later explained that dedicated designers were less common when he began. Programmers and artists frequently made design decisions themselves because there was nobody else whose job was exclusively to do so.
One of Hewitt’s early Westwood credits was BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk’s Inception. It also provided him with one of the design lessons he remembered most clearly decades later.
BattleTech and a Puzzle Players Could Not Forget
Near the end of The Crescent Hawk’s Inception, players encountered a complicated sequence involving colored keys, doors, codes, and a map puzzle. Hewitt helped create it after being asked to devise something that would extend the game. Part of the puzzle also functioned as a form of copy protection because information needed to solve it was connected to material in the game’s documentation.
The problem was that the connection was poorly communicated.
Playtesters warned that the puzzle was too difficult, but Hewitt was still inexperienced enough that he did not fully understand what their frustration was telling him. Players in the pre-internet era could become genuinely trapped near the end of a game they had already invested many hours in. Years later, Hewitt apologized for the puzzle and used it as an example of how his approach to design changed. He realized that he had been concentrating on how clever the obstacle was rather than on whether solving it was enjoyable.
When discussing game balance in 2014, he returned to the same experience. The testers had given him the information he needed. What he lacked was the experience to translate their complaints into the conclusion that the design itself was not working. His later philosophy emphasized that difficulty alone was not the proper measure of a challenge. What mattered was whether the act of playing through it remained fun.
It was a lesson Hewitt carried into games that reached much larger audiences.
Eye of the Beholder and the Art of Doing More With Less
Westwood’s relationship with SSI and the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons license produced one of the studio’s first major successes in Eye of the Beholder. Released in 1991, the game adapted the first-person dungeon exploration associated with titles such as Dungeon Master to the AD&D world, placing the player’s party beneath Waterdeep in a maze of sewers, dwarven territory, Drow areas, and increasingly dangerous levels leading toward the beholder Xanathar.
Contemporary credits identify Hewitt as part of the graphics team alongside artists including Aaron Powell and Rick Parks. He was also credited on Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon.
Hewitt remained particularly fond of his work on the Drow areas of the first game. He even hid his name or initials in the Drow wall graphics in a way that players could reveal by rapidly moving past adjacent walls, causing bright pixels from separate images to combine visually. It was the kind of developer signature that could remain invisible for years unless somebody knew where to look.
Another favorite was the portal-opening animation. Rather than create a long sequence containing a large number of unique images, Hewitt used only a handful of frames and replayed them in a carefully arranged order so that the portal appeared to gather energy before opening. The effect is a small example of the kind of technical art that defined much of his Westwood career. Better results did not always require more memory or more artwork. Sometimes they required using the same limited material intelligently.
The success of Eye of the Beholder helped establish Westwood as more than a conversion studio. During the next several years it moved rapidly through role-playing games, adventures, console projects, and strategy titles, while Hewitt became part of an art department that developed a recognizable visual identity of its own.
Kyrandia, Lands of Lore, and Westwood’s Art Department
Westwood’s early 1990s games were visually diverse. The Legend of Kyrandia used colorful hand-drawn fantasy environments, while Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos returned the studio to a first-person role-playing format with more elaborate character art and scenery.
Hewitt contributed artwork to both worlds. On Kyrandia II: The Hand of Fate, he later described himself as the art director. When a fan asked about a supposed technology called “Trulight” that had been credited with helping the game’s backgrounds look unusually rich, Hewitt remembered the term only vaguely and suspected it was something relatively small that marketing had elevated into a selling point. What he remembered much more clearly was the talent of artists such as Rick Parks.
That distinction matters. Game histories often become histories of technology, engines, and branded features, but the people doing the work could see things differently. Hewitt credited the beauty of Kyrandia II largely to skilled artists rather than to a technological miracle.
His formal credits from the period stretch across The Legend of Kyrandia, Hand of Fate, Lands of Lore, Young Merlin, and several other releases. By then he had become one of the recurring names in a Westwood group whose artists, programmers, designers, musicians, and producers would repeatedly move from one project to another.
That team was about to help define an entire genre.
Dune II and the Making of Modern Real-Time Strategy
Few arguments in game history are as persistent as the question of which title should be called the first real-time strategy game. Games before Dune II contained pieces of the formula, and Herzog Zwei is frequently cited as an important predecessor. What is much less controversial is that Westwood’s Dune II, released in 1992, brought together resource gathering, base construction, unit production, competing factions, technological progression, and mouse-driven battlefield control in a form that became the template for the modern RTS.
Hewitt was unusually vocal about its history. In a 2011 essay titled “The Birth of the First Real-Time Strategy Game,” he rejected the idea that Westwood’s earlier BattleTech strategy games had already been RTS titles, pointing out that those games operated differently. He identified Populous, Civilization, and Herzog Zwei as important influences on what became Dune II.
The Dune license itself arrived through Virgin. According to Hewitt’s recollection, Virgin already had a Dune game in development at the French company Cryo, but concerns about that project led the publisher to give Westwood another opportunity to use the license. Cryo’s game survived, leaving Virgin with two very different Dune projects. Cryo’s was released first, which helped produce the unusual situation in which Westwood’s game became Dune II even though it was not a conventional sequel.
Hewitt remembered that the team did not fully understand what it had created until after release. He had one early hint while playtesting at home. He would stay up late playing while his girlfriend slept, then she would wake early and take over. Seeing somebody outside the development team become absorbed in the game suggested that Westwood had something with an appeal beyond the traditional strategy audience.
Dune II did more than become a success. It gave Westwood a foundation it could refine without the limitations of somebody else’s fictional universe.
The result was Command & Conquer.
The Lion King and the Road to Command & Conquer
Before Hewitt became deeply involved with Command & Conquer, he was working on Disney’s The Lion King. His credits include background art on computer and console versions, and he later described the technical process behind some of that work.
The artwork had to be reduced into small 8 by 8 character tiles, with tiles reused wherever possible so that large scenes could be reconstructed from a much smaller amount of stored graphical information. It was painstaking work based around optimization rather than simply drawing a beautiful background and placing it directly into the game.
When his work on The Lion King finished, Hewitt expected to spend time learning 3D Studio. Other Westwood artists had already been experimenting with 3D work for the project that became Command & Conquer.
Then he noticed a problem.
On Westwood’s network, he saw separate copies of buildings and vehicles created in GDI tan and Nod red. Hewitt immediately recognized how expensive that approach could become. Multiplayer would require even more colors, meaning the game could end up storing multiple versions of fundamentally identical assets.
Instead, he began separating the portions of the images that needed to change color and arranging them around a palette whose selected range could be swapped. The same vehicle or structure could then appear in different faction and multiplayer colors without requiring a completely separate copy of the artwork.
As artists completed The Lion King, Hewitt began directing them toward Command & Conquer artwork. In his own account, that was essentially how he became part of one of Westwood’s most famous projects.
Building Command & Conquer
Westwood wanted its next strategy game to belong to Westwood. Hewitt and producer Rade Stojsavljevic later recalled that the desire to build an original intellectual property was a major force behind Command & Conquer. An early proposal was considerably different from the finished game, imagining humans, undead forces, and an insect-like faction in a fantasy setting. Even Tiberium had a predecessor in the form of magical mana falling from the sky.
The concept shifted toward modern warfare, then gradually moved into the near-future world of the Global Defense Initiative, the Brotherhood of Nod, Kane, and Tiberium. The change helped give Command & Conquer a visual language that players could understand quickly. Tanks looked like tanks, bases communicated their purpose, and the fictional technology was strange without becoming incomprehensible.
Hewitt’s contribution extended beyond producing and organizing artwork. While working on the mouse cursors, he recalled considering why the player needed to choose an action such as “move” or “attack” from a menu before clicking the target. If the cursor was over an enemy, the game could reasonably assume that the player intended to attack. If it was over empty ground, the probable intention was movement. Alternative commands could still be accessed through modifier keys.
Earlier strategy interfaces often required players to select a unit, select a command, then select a destination or target. The more context-sensitive method reduced that sequence and helped make Command & Conquer feel faster and more immediate. Hewitt remembered noticing later that other strategy games were moving toward similar controls. His account should not be treated as proof that one person single-handedly invented the modern RTS interface, but it does show how seemingly small usability decisions were being considered inside Westwood while the genre’s conventions were still unsettled.
The finished DOS version of Command & Conquer formally credits Hewitt among its artists. On the PlayStation release, he was credited as lead artist. Other members of the development team later remembered him among the important art contributors to the original game.
The combination of accessible controls, fast base building, multiplayer competition, live-action mission briefings, memorable music, and GDI-versus-Nod storytelling pushed Westwood’s strategy formula into a much larger market. Dune II had established much of the grammar. Command & Conquer spoke it fluently.
Red Alert and Tiberian Sun
Westwood moved quickly from Command & Conquer into Command & Conquer: Red Alert. The original Red Alert documentation lists Hewitt among the game’s lead artists, evidence that his position within the art team had grown considerably from his early years drawing educational software.
Red Alert took the basic structure of Command & Conquer and placed it in an alternate history built around a war between the Allies and Soviet Union. It retained Westwood’s recognizable blend of strategy and personality while broadening the series into a second setting that eventually became a major franchise of its own.
Hewitt continued with the series through expansions and later projects, including Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor and Tiberian Sun. Credits for Tiberian Sun and its Firestorm expansion identify him in senior in-game art roles. By that point, the teenager who had once been paid with a drawing tablet was helping lead graphical production on one of PC gaming’s best-known strategy series.
His relationship with Command & Conquer extended even beyond the main Westwood releases. He later recalled doing art modifications for German editions, including replacing blood with oil and altering human portraits to appear more like androids in response to regional content requirements.
Yet the studio around him was changing.
The Sale of Westwood and the End of the Las Vegas Studio
Westwood had joined Virgin Interactive in the early 1990s, giving the Las Vegas developer greater publishing and distribution capabilities. In 1998 Electronic Arts purchased Westwood and related Virgin development assets for approximately $122.7 million. Contemporary reporting described Westwood as a roughly 125-person Las Vegas studio whose Command & Conquer franchise had made it one of the most valuable pieces of the transaction.
Hewitt stayed through the Electronic Arts years and described himself as having spent about fourteen years at Westwood. His work during the period included Tiberian Sun, Firestorm, Dune 2000, Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny, and other projects.
In January 2003, Electronic Arts announced a consolidation of its Las Vegas and Irvine development operations into a larger Los Angeles studio. Westwood’s Las Vegas operation subsequently closed. Some employees moved to EA’s California operation while others, including Hewitt, left. Contemporary reporting places the closure in 2003, despite Hewitt later remembering it as 2002 in one interview.
For Hewitt, the end of Westwood began a period of significant change. He had spent much of his professional life inside one studio. Now he would move through online games, Australia, independent development, and eventually another company founded by Brett Sperry.
Sony Online and a Move to Australia
After Westwood, Hewitt briefly joined Sony Online Entertainment as a customer-service representative during the launch of Star Wars Galaxies. He hoped to move into a design position on EverQuest, but when it became clear that opportunity was not developing, he left.
In 2004 he moved to Australia and joined Auran, where his career became more explicitly focused on design. By 2006 he was being interviewed as a senior designer on Fury, an ambitious multiplayer game built around competitive combat.
Hewitt argued that conventional character classes could impose artificial restrictions on players. Fury instead emphasized a more flexible skill-based structure, allowing players to build characters around their preferred style while still giving the designers the difficult task of keeping those combinations balanced.
The project also illustrates how Hewitt’s career had changed. At Westwood he had often been an artist whose technical understanding pushed him into design problems. At Auran, those design problems were increasingly his primary responsibility. His 2007 interview describes concerns ranging from interface behavior and social systems to balancing game mechanics and anticipating the strange combinations of actions that players would inevitably attempt.
He also articulated a simple reason for staying in the industry. He liked making things that people enjoyed playing. Games, in his view, were not primarily about the hardware used to run them or whatever manufacturers happened to be calling the “next generation.” The game experience itself was what mattered.
Interzone Futebol and Another Kind of Online Game
Hewitt remained in Australia after Auran and joined Interzone. In a 2008 developer diary for Interzone Futebol, he introduced himself as the project’s Lead Game Designer and discussed a closed beta, player clubs, tournaments, testing, and the importance of community feedback.
The project was strikingly different from the fantasy role-playing and real-time strategy games most closely associated with his name. Interzone Futebol was built around online soccer, yet the change also demonstrated a point Hewitt repeatedly made about his own career: he did not consider himself exclusively an RTS designer.
By his later account, he spent about five years in Australia across Auran and Interzone before returning to Las Vegas in 2009.
Waiting there was another connection to his Westwood past.
Jet Set Games and Highborn
Back in Las Vegas, Hewitt joined Jet Set Games, a company associated with Westwood co-founder Brett Sperry and other veterans of the earlier studio. Hewitt first worked there as a designer and later as creative director.
One of the company’s most notable releases was Highborn, a lighter turn-based strategy game announced in 2010. Hewitt described it as deliberately approachable, but what he remembered most fondly was its humor. According to his later account, the comedic storyline began almost accidentally when he inserted humorous placeholder writing into early missions. Other people liked it enough that he continued, and by the later chapters he allowed the comedy to become increasingly elaborate.
The project reunited him professionally with people connected to Westwood while allowing him to work in a smaller environment again. Jet Set even approached Electronic Arts about making another Command & Conquer game. Hewitt recalled that the group involved included Sperry, Rade Stojsavljevic, Adam Isgreen, and himself, but EA chose another direction.
By the time of his 2014 public AMA, Hewitt was no longer connected to Jet Set and was looking for another design position. What he did possess was nearly three decades of stories from an industry that had changed almost beyond recognition since his first KoalaPad payment.
A Developer Who Remembered How the Games Were Made
Game credits can tell historians that Joseph B. Hewitt IV worked on Eye of the Beholder, Kyrandia, The Lion King, Command & Conquer, and Tiberian Sun. They cannot, by themselves, explain what that work meant.
Hewitt’s interviews fill in those spaces. He remembered hiding his initials inside a Drow wall. He remembered building an animation out of a few recycled frames. He remembered seeing two differently colored copies of the same tank and deciding there had to be a better way. He remembered questioning why an RTS player should have to press an attack button when clicking directly on an enemy already made the intended action obvious.
He also remembered mistakes.
The infamous BattleTech puzzle became a lesson about listening to playtesters. Years of technical art became a lesson that clever production methods could matter as much as raw graphical power. Work on multiplayer and online games reinforced the importance of anticipating what players would do rather than merely what the designer expected them to do.
That mixture of art, technology, interface design, writing, and practical problem solving makes Hewitt’s career representative of the generation that built modern game development before its jobs became as specialized as they are today. When he began, an artist could become a designer because the game needed a problem solved and somebody had to solve it.
Why Joseph B. Hewitt IV Matters to Video Game History
Joseph B. Hewitt IV is not as immediately recognizable to the public as the characters and franchises he helped create. His face did not become a symbol of Command & Conquer like Joe Kucan’s Kane, and his name was not attached to Westwood in the same way as founders Brett Sperry and Louis Castle.
Yet video game history is built by more than studio founders and public-facing creators.
Hewitt’s career runs through the practical development of several important transitions. He entered the business when educational computer software and small teams still offered teenagers a path into professional development. He participated in Westwood’s rise from contract work into major original games. He contributed art to first-person computer RPGs, worked inside the studio that established the modern real-time strategy template, helped solve graphical and interface problems for Command & Conquer, became a lead artist as the franchise expanded, then moved more fully into game design as the industry entered the age of online worlds and mobile games.
Perhaps most importantly for historians, he talked about it.
Hewitt’s surviving interviews and writings capture the messy, collaborative reality behind famous games. Features that later look inevitable were not inevitable at all. Someone had to notice that two tanks did not need two complete sets of artwork. Someone had to question why a player needed three clicks when one could work. Someone had to discover that four frames arranged cleverly could create an effect that seemed much larger than the memory used to store it.
Those decisions rarely fit neatly onto the front of a game box, but they are where much of video game history actually happened.
Sources & Further Reading
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Ainsworth, Chris. “Highborn Preview.” driph, May 2010. Includes colleague testimony identifying Hewitt as lead designer on Highborn. https://driph.com/words/2010/05/highborn-preview/
Pocket Gamer. “Combat Details Emerge for iPhone and Facebook Strategy Battler Highborn.” April 27, 2010. https://www.pocketgamer.com/highborn/combat-details-emerge-for-iphone-and-facebook-strategy-battler-highborn/
Stefanescu, Tudor. “Unleash The Fury: An Innovative MMORPG Using the Unreal3 Engine.” Softpedia, July 25, 2006. https://news.softpedia.com/news/Unleash-The-Fury-an-innovative-MMORPG-using-the-Unreal3-engine-30806.shtml
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