Eric Barone is an American video game developer, artist, composer, video game designer, and musician. Eric Barone is famous for creating Stardew Valley.
Table of Biography
Early Life
Eric Barone is also known by his alias ConcernedApe. His date of birth is December 3, 1987. Currently, he is 34 years old and his sun sign is Sagittarius. He was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. However, he moved to Seattle at a young age and lives there to this day. Sadly, details about his parents have not been disclosed yet.
This personality grew up loving video games and computers. Eric cites the Harvest Moon series as his favorite as a child. Moreover, he attended the University of Washington Tacoma and graduated in the year 2011 with a degree in computer science.
Caption: Eric Barone’s picture. Source: GQ
Career
Eric started working on Stardew Valley in the year 2012 and released it in the year 2016. This personality was praised for creating the game independently, doing everything from designing the characters, animating, writing the dialogue, and creating the music.
Eric was nominated for Best Independent Game at The Game Awards 2016. Moreover, since 2019, he has been assisted on Stardew Valley by another designer. In the year 2020, he announced that he was working on several new games, with at least 2 of them set in the Stardew Valley universe.
Similarly, in February 2021, he and board game designer Cole Meideros released a cooperative board game adaptation of Stardew Valley. Further, in October 2021, this developer announced that a new game titled Haunted Chocolatier was in development, with no set release date.
Caption: Eric Barone while working. Source: Reddit
Personal Life
Discussing his personal life, Eric is in a relationship with his beautiful girlfriend, Amber Hageman. However, the detailed information about their wedding is not in the media yet. That’s why we cannot claim his relationship status confidently until he decides to speak up in the media. Eric is having an intimate relationship with his love and the two are living their life happily together.
Body Measurements
This personality has a height of 5 feet and 7 inches or 1.75m. Similarly, he has a weight of 65 kilos. Eric has an athletic body build. Moreover, his eye color is brown whereas his hair color is black. Despite this, there are no other body stats regarding Eric.
Caption: Eric Barone posing for a photo. Source: GQ
Social Media and Net Worth
His ‘@ConcernedApe’ Twitter account has earned over 734.7K followers. Likewise, he has gained over 214K subscribers on his ‘ConcernedApe’ YouTube channel. His Facebook page has earned more than 109K followers. Eric goes under the username ‘@gluten_puck’ on Instagram and has earned over 3K followers.
Eric earns from his professional career as a video game developer and video game designer. However, his estimated net worth is $34 million.
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