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This is a list of notable video game designers, past and present, in alphabetical order. The people in this list already have Wikipedia entries, and as such did significant design for notable computer games, console games, or arcade games. It does not include people in managerial roles (which often includes titles like "Producer" or ...
Below is a list of notable people who work or have worked in the video game industry. The list is divided into different roles, but some people fit into more than one category. For example, Sid Meier is both a game designer and programmer. [1] In these cases, the people appear in both sections.
Markus Alexej Persson (/ ˈ p ɪər s ən / ⓘ PEER-sən, Swedish: [ˈmǎrːkɵs ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn] ⓘ; born 1 June 1979), also known as Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of Minecraft, which is the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game development company Mojang Studios in 2009.
Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish (ISBN 978-0-7864-6952-9) by Lewis Pulsipher (2012). Game Design: The Art and Business of Creating Games (ISBN 0-7615-3165-3) Bob Bates. Game Design: Theory and Practice (ISBN 1-55622-912-7) by Richard Rouse III. Game Design Foundations, Second Edition
In 2009, Game Informer put Super Mario Bros. in second place on its list of "The Top 200 Games of All Time", behind The Legend of Zelda, saying that it "remains a monument to brilliant design and fun gameplay". [86] Super Mario 64 is acclaimed by many critics and fans as one of the greatest and most revolutionary video games of all time.
Namco's maze chase arcade game Pac-Man (1980) had the biggest influence on his career, [6] as it was the first game that got him "thinking about game design." [ 5 ] Nasir Gebelli ( Sirius Software , Squaresoft ) was his favorite programmer and a major inspiration, with Gebelli's fast 3D programming work for Apple II games, such as the shooters ...
Yu Suzuki (鈴木 裕, Suzuki Yū, born June 10, 1958) is a Japanese game designer, producer, programmer, and engineer, who headed Sega's AM2 team for 18 years. Considered one of the first auteurs of video games, he has been responsible for a number of Sega's arcade hits, including three-dimensional sprite-scaling games that used "taikan" motion simulator arcade cabinets, such as Hang-On ...
Shinji Mikami (三上 真司, Mikami Shinji, born August 11, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer.Starting his career at Capcom in 1990, he has worked on many of the company's most successful games.