People
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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.
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] 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
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- 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.
[edit] O
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- 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)

