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| x Jordan Mechner |
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Karateka |
Jordan Mechner (born 4 June 1964) is an American video game designer, screenwriter, author, and filmmaker, best known for creating the Prince of Persia video game franchise.
Mechner was born in New York City. He is a graduate of Yale University...
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| Prince of Persia | |||
| The Last Express | |||
| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | |||
| x Robert Cook |
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Gumball |
Robert Cook is co-founder and SVP Platform Partnerships at Metaweb. You can find out more about him at his Freebase user page.
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| D/Generation | |||
| x Sid Meier |
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Civilization |
Sidney K. "Sid" Meier (born February 24, 1954) is a Canadian-American programmer and designer of several popular strategy video games and simulation video games, most notably Civilization. He has won several prestigious accolades for his...
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| Civilization IV | |||
| Sid Meier's Railroads! | |||
| Covert Action | |||
| F-19 Stealth Fighter | |||
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| x Will Wright |
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SimCity 3000 |
William Ralph "Will" Wright (born January 20, 1960, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts. In April 2009, he left Electronic Arts to run "Stupid Fun...
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| SimAnt | |||
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| x Silas Warner | Castle Wolfenstein |
Silas S. Warner (August 18, 1949 – March 3, 2004) was a game programmer and the first employee of Muse Software. Among other games, he created Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein.
Warner was educated at Deep Springs College and Indiana...
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| x Shigeru Miyamoto |
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Donkey Kong |
Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本 茂, Miyamoto Shigeru) (born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer and producer. Miyamoto was born and raised in Kyoto Prefecture; the natural surroundings of Kyoto inspired much of Miyamoto's later work.
He is...
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| Donkey Kong Junior | |||
| Mario Bros. | |||
| Devil World | |||
| Donkey Kong 3 | |||
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| x Chris Crawford |
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Gossip |
Christopher Crawford (born 1950) is a computer game designer and writer noted for creating a number of important games in the 1980s, founding The Journal of Computer Game Design, and organizing the Computer Game Developers' Conference.
After...
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| Eastern Front | |||
| Legionnaire | |||
| Wizard | |||
| Trust & Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot | |||
| x Brian Reynolds |
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Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots |
Brian Reynolds (born 1967) is a videogame designer who now designs online social games (e.g. on Facebook). Reynolds has designed at Zynga, Big Huge Games, Firaxis Games, and Microprose. He presently works as chief game designer at Zynga and has been...
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| Colonization | |||
| Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends | |||
| Rise of Nations | |||
| Civilization II | |||
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| x Chris Roberts | Strike Commander |
Chris Roberts (born May 27, 1968) is a computer game designer, programmer, 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, Roberts grew...
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| Wing Commander: Armada | |||
| Times of Lore | |||
| Wing Commander | |||
| Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger | |||
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| x Roberta Williams | Mystery House |
Roberta Williams (born February 16, 1953) is an American video game designer and a co-founder of the Sierra On-Line company (later known as Sierra Entertainment). She is most famous for her pioneering work in graphical adventure games. She developed...
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| The Colonel's Bequest | |||
| The Wizard and the Princess | |||
| The Dark Crystal | |||
| King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown | |||
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| x Ken Williams |
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Mystery House |
Ken Williams (born October 1954) is an American game programmer and co-founded On-Line Systems, which later became Sierra On-Line, together with his wife Roberta Williams. Roberta and Ken married at the age of 19 and have two children. The couple...
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| The Wizard and the Princess | |||
| Diablo | |||
| x Gary Grigsby |
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 of...
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| x Warren Spector |
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Tabula Rasa |
Warren Spector (born October 2, 1955) is a role-playing game designer and a video game designer. He is known for having worked to merge elements of role-playing video games and first-person shooters. He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his...
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| Ultima VII | |||
| Deus Ex: Invisible War | |||
| Ultima VI: The False Prophet | |||
| Deus Ex | |||
| x Robyn Miller | 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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| Riven | |||
| Myst | |||
| Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel | |||
| Spelunx | |||
| x Rand Miller |
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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 game...
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| Myst | |||
| Myst V: End of Ages | |||
| Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel | |||
| Spelunx | |||
| x Eugene Jarvis |
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Defender |
Eugene Peyton Jarvis (born 1955) is a game designer and programmer, known for producing pinball machines for Atari and video games for Williams Electronics. Most notable amongst his works are the seminal arcade video games Defender and Robotron:...
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| Stargate | |||
| Blaster | |||
| Cruis'n Exotica | |||
| Smash TV | |||
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| x Joe Ybarra | Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor |
Joseph Ybarra (born ~1954) is a producer and designer of video games.
Joe Ybarra worked at Apple Computer before leaving in 1982 to work at Electronic Arts, a startup company founded by his fellow ex-Apple employee, Trip Hawkins.There he became one...
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| x Raymond E. Feist |
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Betrayal at Krondor |
Raymond Elias Feist (born Raymond E. Gonzales III, 1945) 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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| x Marc Blank | Border Zone |
Marc Blank is an American game developer and software engineer. He is best known as part of the team that created one of the first hit text adventure computer games, Zork.
In high school he collaborated with Alex Citron on a simulation of a major...
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| Deadline | |||
| Journey | |||
| Zork I | |||
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| x Neal Hallford | 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...
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| Planet's Edge | |||
| x Jon Van Caneghem |
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Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest |
Jon Van Caneghem (born 1962/1963) is an American video game director, designer and producer. He is best known for launching development studio New World Computing in 1983, making his design debut in 1986 with Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of...
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| Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia | |||
| Might and Magic IX | |||
| Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer | |||
| Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death | |||
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| x Doug Carlston |
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Tawala's Last Redoubt |
Doug Carlston (born 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts) is the founder and current CEO of Tawala Systems based in San Rafael, California. He was previously CEO, chairman, and co-founder (with brother Gary) of Brøderbund Software, a major software...
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| x Marc Goodman | The Bilestoad | ||
| x Chris Taylor |
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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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| Dungeon Siege | |||
| Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony | |||
| Supreme Commander | |||
| Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency | |||
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| x Ken Levine |
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Thief: The Dark Project |
Ken Levine (Born September 1st, 1966, in Flushing, New York) is the creative director and co-founder of Irrational Games. He led the creation of the multi-million selling, multiple "game-of-the-year" award-winning video game BioShock, and is known...
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| System Shock 2 | |||
| Tribes: Vengeance | |||
| x Sean Clark | 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 | |||
| x Michael Stemmle |
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Escape from Monkey Island |
Michael J. Stemmle (born in 1967) is a computer game writer, designer, and director (sometimes designated as a "project leader" in LucasArts parlance) who cocreated some of LucasArts' adventure games in the 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He was...
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| Sam & Max Hit the Road | |||
| Sam & Max: Freelance Police | |||
| Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People - Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner | |||
| Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People - Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free | |||
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| x Jonathan Ackley | The Curse of Monkey Island | ||
| x Larry Ahern | The Curse of Monkey Island | ||
| x Ron Gilbert |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure |
Ron Gilbert (born January 1, 1964) is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. Gilbert was...
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| Maniac Mansion | |||
| Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders | |||
| The Secret of Monkey Island | |||
| Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge | |||
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| x Tim Schafer |
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge |
Timothy Schafer (born July 26, 1967) is an American computer game designer. He founded Double Fine Productions in January 2000, after having spent over a decade at LucasArts. Schafer is best known as the designer of critically acclaimed games Full...
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| Day of the Tentacle | |||
| Full Throttle | |||
| Grim Fandango | |||
| Crime Cities | |||
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| x Dave Grossman |
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The Secret of Monkey Island |
Dave Grossman is a game programmer and game designer, most known for his work at Telltale Games and early work at LucasArts. He has also written several children's books, and a book of "guy poetry" called Ode to the Stuff in the Sink.
At LucasArts,...
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| Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge | |||
| Day of the Tentacle | |||
| Bone: Out from Boneville | |||
| Bone: The Great Cow Race | |||
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| x Steve Purcell |
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Sam & Max Hit the Road |
Steve Ross Purcell (born 1961) is an American cartoonist, animator and game designer. He is most widely known as the creator of Sam & Max, an independent comic book series about a pair of anthropomorphic animal vigilantes and private investigators,...
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| What's New, Beelzebub? | |||
| Sam & Max: Culture Shock | |||
| Sam & Max: Situation: Comedy | |||
| Sam & Max: Reality 2.0 | |||
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| x Collette Michaud | Sam & Max Hit the Road | ||
| x Brian Moriarty | LOOM |
Brian Moriarty (born 1956) is an American video game developer who authored three of the original Infocom interactive fiction titles, Wishbringer (1985), Trinity (1986) and Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor (1987).
Two earlier games, Adventure in...
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| The Dig | |||
| Trinity | |||
| Wishbringer | |||
| Beyond Zork | |||
| x Noah Falstein |
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis |
Noah Falstein is a freelance game designer and producer who has been in the video game industry since 1980. He was one of the first 10 employees at Lucasfilm Games (which became LucasArts Entertainment), DreamWorks Interactive (which became EALA),...
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| Sinistar | |||
| Strike Fleet | |||
| Labyrinth: The Computer Game | |||
| x Hal Barwood |
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis |
Hal Barwood is an American game designer and game producer best known for his work on games based on the Indiana Jones license.
Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, he studied art at Brown University and later attended the University of Southern...
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| Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine | |||
| x Bret Mogilefsky | Grim Fandango | ||
| x Paul Cuisset | Future Wars | ||
| Operation Stealth | |||
| Flashback: The Quest for Identity | |||
| x Jean Baudlot | Operation Stealth | ||
| x Eric Chahi |
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Another World |
Éric Chahi is a French computer game designer best known as the creator of Another World (known as Out of This World in North America).
Éric Chahi started programming on Oric Atmos and Amstrad during 1983 for the company Loriciels. He then utilized...
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| Future Wars | |||
| Heart of Darkness | |||
| From Dust | |||
| x Peter Molyneux |
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Populous |
Peter Douglas Molyneux OBE (born 5 May 1959) is an English computer game designer and game programmer. He created the god games Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and Black & White, among others, as well as business simulation games such as Theme Park and...
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| Powermonger | |||
| Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods | |||
| Dungeon Keeper | |||
| Theme Park | |||
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| x Jeff Minter |
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Llamatron |
Jeff 'Yak' Minter (born in Reading, 22 April 1962) is a British video game designer and programmer. He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and his recent works include Neon (2004), a non-game music visualization program that has been built...
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| Revenge of the Mutant Camels | |||
| Attack of the Mutant Camels | |||
| Gridrunner++ | |||
| Abductor | |||
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| x Fukio Mitsuji | Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 | ||
| x Mike Singleton | Lords of Midnight: The Citadel |
Mike Singleton (born 1951) is a British author and video game developer who wrote various well-regarded titles for the ZX Spectrum during the 1980s. His titles include The Lords of Midnight, Doomdark's Revenge, Throne of Fire, Dark Sceptre and War...
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| Doomdark's Revenge | |||
| The Lords of Midnight | |||
| Midwinter | |||
| Flames of Freedom | |||
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| x Hervé Lange | B.A.T. | ||
| B.A.T. II - The Koshan Conspiracy | |||
| x Olivier Cordoléani | B.A.T. | ||
| B.A.T. II - The Koshan Conspiracy | |||
| x Soren Johnson | Civilization IV |
Soren Johnson is a video game designer and programmer. He was employed by Firaxis Games from 2000 to 2007, where he co-designed several of their most popular games. Prior to his work at Firaxis, he obtained a BA in history and a master's degree in...
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| Civilization III | |||
| x Peter Stock | Armadillo Run | ||
| x Chris Sawyer | Transport Tycoon |
Chris Sawyer is a Scottish computer game developer who is best known for designing and programming Transport Tycoon and the RollerCoaster Tycoon series.
Sawyer first entered the games industry in 1983, writing games in Z80 machine code on the...
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| RollerCoaster Tycoon | |||
| RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 | |||
| Chris Sawyer's Locomotion | |||
| x Takeshi Kitano |
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Takeshi no Chousenjou |
Takeshi Kitano (北野 武, Kitano Takeshi, born January 18, 1947) is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in...
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| x GSC Game World | Heroes of Annihilated Empires |
GSC Game World was a Ukrainian video game developer. Founded in 1995 in Kiev, Ukraine, it released titles such as Cossacks: European Wars, American Conquest, Alexander, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and S.T.A.L.K.E.R...
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| Stalker: Call of Pripyat | |||
| x Donald Brown | SwordThrust |
Donald E. Brown is an American professor of anthropology (emeritus). He worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his theoretical work regarding the existence, characteristics and relevance of universals of human...
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| x Delphine Software International | Future Wars |
Delphine Software was a French video game developer company. They were famous for their games Another World and Flashback, which bore a similarity to Prince of Persia, both in gameplay and in utilizing rotoscoped animation. They were also known for...
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| Fade to Black | |||
| Flashback: The Quest for Identity | |||
| x David Perry |
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Earthworm Jim |
David Perry (born 1967) is an Northern Irish video game developer who has created dozens of video games, the best known of which include Earthworm Jim, MDK, Messiah, Wild 9 and Enter the Matrix. He also founded Shiny Entertainment, where he worked...
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| Wild 9 | |||
| Sacrifice | |||
| Earthworm Jim 2 | |||
| Global Gladiators | |||
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| x Ron Millar | Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods |
Ron Millar is the lead designer of Black & White 2, the computer game and is currently the lead designer for LucasArts' upcoming Indiana Jones game. He previously worked at companies such as Jaleco Entertainment, where he was lead designer on Goblin...
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| Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness | |||
| Black & White 2 | |||
| The Lost Vikings | |||
| x Todd Replogle |
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Monuments of Mars |
Todd Jason Replogle is a video game programmer, best known as the co-creator of the Duke Nukem series. Replogle graduated from Soquel High School in Soquel, California as a member of the class of 1986.
After the release of Duke Nukem 3D, Replogle...
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| The Thor Trilogy | |||
| Dark Ages | |||
| Duke Nukem 3D | |||
| Duke Nukem | |||
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| x Omega Force | Dynasty Warriors |
Omega Force (ω-Force) is a video game developer working for Koei that is most well known for its Dynasty Warriors series for the PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Wii.
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| x Rob Fulop | Demon Attack |
Rob Fulop is a writer and game programmer who was chiefly responsible for some of the Atari 2600's biggest hits, such as 1982's enormously successful Demon Attack. He also worked on the Atari 2600 ports of Night Driver (1978), Space Invaders (1980),...
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| Cosmic ark | |||
| x Jon Freeman | Archon: The Light and the Dark |
Jon Freeman was an influential computer game industry figure of the 1980s and early 1990s. He was a co-founder of Epyx and Free Fall Associates and the spouse of game programmer Anne Westfall. Besides founding these two companies, though he is...
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| Rescue at Rigel | |||
| Crush, Crumble and Chomp! | |||
| Star Warrior | |||
| Starfleet Orion | |||
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