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[edit] Industry People

Below is a list of famous and not-so-famous people who are or have been at one time in the industry, ordered by last name.

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A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z

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[edit] A

[edit] B

• Blezinski, Cliff, The person behind the Unreal series.
• Bushnell, Nolan, a founding father of the video games industry.

[edit] C

• Carmack, John, an American game programmer, and the co-founder of id Software. He was the lead programmer of the id computer games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and subsequent sequels.
• Case, Stevie "Killcreek", one of the first well-known female gamers.
• Clark, Ryan
• Crawford, Chris

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[edit] E

[edit] F

[edit] G

• Garriott, Richard, Creator of the Ultima Series and Ultima Online
• Gose, Stephen, Creator of Adventurers of Renown Gaming System on PBMCube.com

[edit] H

[edit] I

• Iwata, Satoru, President of Nintendo from 2002 to present.

[edit] J

• Jarvis, Eugene, notable for Defender and Robotron: 2084.
• Johnson, Soren, lead designer for Civilization 3 and 4.

[edit] K

• Kondo, Koji, man behind the most famous Nintendo music scores, in games like Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda.
• Kojima, Hideo, writer, producer, director, and designer of the Metal Gear Solid series.

[edit] L

• Lamothe, André, known for his game development books, the XGameStation, and the HYDRA.
• Long, Starr

[edit] M

• Meier, Sid, the designer of the well known game "Civilization".
• Miyamoto, Shigeru, in a high position in Nintendo.
• Molyneux, Peter, started "Lionhead Studios" and former "Bullfrog".He developed games like "Fable","Black & White" and classical titles like "Theme Park" and "Dungeon Keeper".
• McGee, American, game developer and consultant.

[edit] N

• Naka, Yuji
• Newell, Game, co-founder of Valve, which created the Half-Life series.
• Nomura, Tetsuya, character designer, working for Square Enix. He designed the characters for several games in Final Fantasy series and he has directed Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and Kingdom Hearts game series.

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[edit] P

• Papert, Seymour, creator of the Logo programming language.

[edit] Q

[edit] R

• Romero, John, co-founder of id Software.

[edit] S

• Sakaguchi, Hironobu, creator of Final Fantasy.
• Shelley, Bruce
• Silverman, Ken, creator of Duke Nukem 3D's Build engine.
• Spector, Warren, from Ion Storm, and the person behind the Deus Ex series
• Stroustrup, Bjarne, creator of the C++ language.
• Suzuki, Yu, designer and producer for Sega.
• Sweeney, Tim, developer of Epic Megagames.

[edit] T

• Taylor, Chris, game designer. Known for the Total Annihilation, Dungeon Siege, and Supreme Commander series.

[edit] U

• Uematsu, Nobuo, composer. Most known of Final Fantasy series soundtrack.

[edit] V

[edit] W

• Wright, Will, designer of The Sims and Sim City, co-founder of Maxis.

[edit] Y

[edit] Z

• Yoav Zibin (yoav.zibin@gmail.com) - CTO of Come2Play
• Eric ZMIRO - Founder & Owner of Magic Pockets (www.magicpockets.com)