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| Jordan Mechner |
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Film writer | Prince of Persia |
Jordan Mechner (born 1964) is a game programmer, game designer, and movie director. Mechner was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University in 1985.
Mechner's first hit game was Karateka (1984), written while he was still an...
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| Person | The Last Express | |||
| Film director | Karateka | |||
| Film producer | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | |||
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| Robert Cook |
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Person | D/Generation |
Robert Cook is co-founder and head of product design and development at Metaweb. You can find out more about him at his Freebase user page.
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| Computer Game Developer | Gumball | |||
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| Sid Meier |
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Person | Civilization |
Sidney K. Meier (born February 24, 1954, in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada) is an American programmer and designer of several popular computer strategy game. Meier has won accolades for both his contributions to the computer games industry and for the...
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| Company Founder | Civilization IV | |||
| Sid Meier's Railroads! | ||||
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| Will Wright |
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Person | The Sims |
William Wright (born January 20 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts.
He is best known as the original designer of computer game such as...
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| Author | SimCity | |||
| Influence Node | Spore | |||
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| Silas Warner |
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Person | Castle Wolfenstein |
Silas Warner (18 August 1949 – 3 March 2004) was a game programmer and the first employee of Muse Software. Among other games, he created Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein. These two games inspired id Software to create Wolfenstein 3D...
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| Shigeru Miyamoto |
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Person | Super Mario Bros. |
is a Japanese video game designer. He is the creator of the Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and F-Zero franchises for Nintendo game systems. He has also supervised many titles published by Nintendo on behalf of other...
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| Fictional Character Creator | F-Zero GX | |||
| TV Actor | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | |||
| Computer Designer | The Legend of Zelda | |||
| Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 | ||||
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| Chris Crawford | Computer Game Developer | Gossip |
Chris Crawford is a noted computer game designer and writer, responsible for a number of important games in the 1980s, for founding The Journal of Computer Game Design and for organizing the Computer Game Developers' Conference.
After receiving a B...
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| Person | Eastern Front | |||
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| Brian Reynolds |
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Person | Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots |
Brian Reynolds (born 1967) is a well known computer strategy game designer, formerly of MicroProse and Firaxis Games. He now runs his own game development company, Big Huge Games where he is CEO and creative director, and has been chairman of the...
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| Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends | ||||
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| Chris Roberts | Person | Strike Commander |
Chris Roberts (born May 27, 1968) is a computer game designer and programmer and a film producer and director. He is best known for creating the popular Wing Commander series while employed at Origin Systems.
Born in Redwood City, California,...
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| Film producer | Wing Commander: Armada | |||
| Film director | Times of Lore | |||
| Film writer | Wing Commander I | |||
| Computer Game Developer | Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger | |||
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| Roberta Williams |
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Person | Mystery House |
Roberta Heuer Williams (born February 16, 1953) is a retired computer game designer. She is most famous for her pioneering work in graphical adventure games, particularly the King's Quest series.
In the eighties and nineties, Roberta and her...
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| Computer Game Developer | The Colonel's Bequest | |||
| The Wizard and the Princess | ||||
| Ken Williams |
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Person | Mystery House |
Ken Williams (born October 1954) is an American game programmer and co-founder with his wife Roberta Williams of On-Line Systems, which later became Sierra On-Line. Roberta and Ken married at the age of 19 and have two children. The couple have been...
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| The Wizard and the Princess | ||||
| Gary Grigsby | Person | Steel Panthers |
Gary Grigsby is a computer wargame designer and programmer.
Grigsby's games were published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) from his first game design in 1982 until 1997. During that time he created several titles that are considered classics...
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| Warren Spector |
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Person | Tabula Rasa |
Warren Spector is a veteran computer game designer. He is known for having worked to merge elements of role-playing games and first-person shooters. He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, fantasy writer Caroline L. Skelley.
Spector...
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| Deus Ex | ||||
| Ultima VII | ||||
| Deus Ex: Invisible War | ||||
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| Robyn Miller | Musical Artist | The Manhole |
Robyn Charles Miller (born August 6, 1966, in Dallas, Texas) co-founded Cyan Worlds (originally Cyan) with brother Rand Miller. After releasing a number of children's adventure "worlds", the brothers finally hit on a success with the computer game...
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| Person | Riven | |||
| Author | Myst | |||
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| Rand Miller | Person | The Manhole |
Rand Miller (born January 17, 1959, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) co-founded Cyan (now Cyan Worlds) with brother Robyn Miller and became famous from the unexpected success of their computer game Myst, which remained the number one-selling...
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| Author | Myst | |||
| Company Founder | Myst V: End of Ages | |||
| Eugene Jarvis |
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Person | Defender |
Eugene Peyton Jarvis (born 1955) is a game designer and programmer, producing pinball machines for Atari and video game for Williams Electronics. Most notable amongst his works are the seminal arcade video game Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the...
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| Pinball Machine Designer | Stargate | |||
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| Cruis'n Exotica | ||||
| Smash TV | ||||
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| Joe Ybarra |
Joe Ybarra (born ~1954) is one of the original game producer at Electronic Arts in 1982 (along with Stewart Bonn, Dave Evans, Susan Lee-Merrow and Pat Marriott), where the concept of a game producer was created by Trip Hawkins. During this time he...
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| Raymond E. Feist |
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Person | Betrayal at Krondor |
Raymond Elias Feist (born 1945, Los Angeles, California) is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. His books have been translated into multiple languages...
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| Marc Blank | Person | Border Zone |
Marc Blank is an American computer game designer and game programmer. He is best known as part of the team that created one of the first hit text adventure computer games, Zork.
Blank first encountered Don Woods and Will Crowther's Adventure game...
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| Deadline | ||||
| Journey | ||||
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| Neal Hallford | Person | Betrayal at Krondor |
William Neal Hallford (born October 17 1966) is an American game designer, book author, screenwriter, and independent film director. He is best known for his work on the fantasy role-playing games Betrayal at Krondor, Dungeon Siege, and Champions of...
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| Jon Van Caneghem | Computer Game Developer | Might and Magic |
Jon Van Caneghem is a computer game designer and producer. He is most recognized for creating the Might and Magic role-playing game series and its strategy spin-off Heroes of Might and Magic.
Van Caneghem founded New World Computing in 1983. The...
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| Person | Heroes of Might and Magic | |||
| Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia | ||||
| Might and Magic IX | ||||
| Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer | ||||
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| Doug Carlston |
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Person | Tawala's Last Redoubt |
Doug Carlston was CEO, chairman, and co-founder (with brother Gary) of Brøderbund Software, a software publishing firm that produced such hit titles as Myst and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. Brøderbund was acquired by The Learning Company...
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| Marc Goodman | Computer Game Developer | The Bilestoad | ||
| Chris Taylor |
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Person | Total Annihilation |
Chris Taylor is a computer game designer and entrepreneur most famous for developing Total Annihilation and the Dungeon Siege series and for founding Gas Powered Games. In 2002, GameSpy named him the 30th most influential person in gaming.
Chris...
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| Company Founder | Dungeon Siege | |||
| Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony | ||||
| Supreme Commander | ||||
| Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency | ||||
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| Ken Levine | Person | Thief: The Dark Project |
Ken Levine is a founding member of, and creative director at 2K Boston, formerly known as Irrational Games. He previously worked at Looking Glass Studios, which he joined in 1995. He was born in New York in a Jewish family.
Some of the games he has...
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| System Shock 2 | ||||
| Tribes: Vengeance | ||||
| Sean Clark | Person | Escape from Monkey Island |
Sean P. Clark is a game designer, director and programmer who worked on a number of notable LucasArts adventure games from early 1990 through to 2002.
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| Sam & Max Hit the Road | ||||
| The Dig | ||||
| Michael Stemmle | Person | Escape from Monkey Island |
Michael Stemmle is a computer game writer, designer and director (sometimes designated as a "project leader" in LucasArts parlance) who co-created some of LucasArts' adventure game in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was also an uncredited script...
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| Sam & Max Hit the Road | ||||
| Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People | ||||
| Jonathan Ackley | The Curse of Monkey Island | |||
| Larry Ahern | The Curse of Monkey Island | |||
| Ron Gilbert |
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Person | Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge |
Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure game, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. Gilbert was also co-founder of...
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| Company Founder | The Secret of Monkey Island | |||
| Software Developer | Maniac Mansion | |||
| Programming Language Designer | Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders | |||
| Fictional Character Creator | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure | |||
