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A person or organisation responsible for the actual coding of a computer game.
   
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x Jordan Mechner Picture 4.png Prince of Persia 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...
Karateka
x Red Orb Entertainment   Prince of Persia Prince of Persia 3D
Red Orb Entertainment was a division of the Brøderbund software company created to market its gaming titles, distinguishing them from its considerable library of edutainment titles, which it marketed to schools. The name comes from the first six...
Prince of Persia 3D
Take No Prisoners
x Smoking Car Productions   The Last Express  
Smoking Car Productions was a video game developer founded by Jordan Mechner to create the computer game The Last Express. The company was located in San Francisco from 1993–1997 and at its peak had sixty full-time employees. The principals included:...
x James M. Brown   D/Generation    
x Robert Cook Robert A. Cook Gumball Karateka
Robert Cook is co-founder and SVP Platform Partnerships at Metaweb.  You can find out more about him at his Freebase user page.
D/Generation Karateka
The Last Express
x MicroProse Old MicroProse headquarters Civilization Silent Service
MicroProse was a video game publisher and developer, founded by Wild Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as Microprose Software. In 1993, the company became a subsidiary of Spectrum HoloByte and has remained a subsidiary or brand name under several...
Return of the Phantom Civilization
Gunship Colonization
Stunt Car Racer Master of Orion II
X-COM: UFO Defense Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard
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x Maxis Maxis Logo The Sims SimCity
Maxis is an American company founded as an independent video game developer in 1987. It is currently a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA), and serves as one of the four major labels of the company. Maxis is the creator of one of the best-selling...
SimCity SimEarth
The Sims 2: Nightlife SimCity
The Sims Online SimCity 2000
SimCity 3000 The Sims
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x Roberta Williams      
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...
x Chris Crawford Chris-Crawford Balance of Power  
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...
Eastern Front
Legionnaire
Patton Versus Rommel
Excalibur
x Chris Roberts      
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...
x Nintendo nintendo-2.jpg Super Mario Bros. Mario Kart Wii
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company...
Super Play Action Football PictureBook Games: The Royal Bluff
Star Fox Sound Fantasy
Common Sense Training Super Tennis
Bound High Tetris & Dr. Mario
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x Sensei Software        
x Looking Glass Studios   System Shock John Madden Football '93
Looking Glass Studios was a computer game development company during the 1990s. Their games were regarded for demonstrating innovative gameplay, pioneering physics simulation, and well-written, engaging stories. However, many of their games, despite...
Thief: The Dark Project Flight Unlimited
System Shock 2 Flight Unlimited III
Destruction Derby 64 System Shock
Flight Unlimited Flight Unlimited II
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x Gathering of Developers      
Gathering of Developers (aka God Games and Gathering) was a Texas-based PC and video games publishing company, founded in January 1998 with the mission to bridge the gap between publishers and independent game developers, allowing independent...
x Atomic Games   Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far Close Combat III: The Russian Front
Atomic Games is a video game developer, specializing mostly in wargames. The company has developed titles such as the Close Combat series, the World at War series, as well as the V for Victory series. Atomic Games was acquired by Destineer Games on...
Close Combat III: The Russian Front Close Combat
Close Combat: Marines Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far
Close Combat
Six Days in Fallujah
x Sigil Games Online   Vanguard: Saga of Heroes Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
Sigil Games Online, Inc. was a computer game developer based in Carlsbad, California founded in January 2002 by Brad McQuaid and Jeff Butler, key development team members who created EverQuest, the most popular massively multiplayer online role...
x 989 Studios   NBA 06 MLB
989 Studios was a division of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) that developed games for the PlayStation consoles and Windows personal computers. Their titles include Twisted Metal III and 4, Syphon Filter and 2, Jet Moto 3, Bust a Groove,...
MLB 2005 NBA
Blasto Cool Boarders 2001
Twisted Metal MLB 2000
2Xtreme MLB 2001
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x Stormfront Studios   Stronghold The Spiderwick Chronicles
Stormfront Studios was a video game developer based in San Rafael, California which had one of the longest creative histories in the industry. In 2007, the company had over 50 developers working on two teams, and owned all its proprietary engines,...
ESPN National Hockey Night Eragon
NASCAR 99 The Spiderwick Chronicles
ESPN Baseball Tonight Andretti Racing
Hot Wheels Turbo Racing Hot Wheels Turbo Racing
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x Gearbox Software   Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway James Bond 007: Nightfire
Gearbox Software, LLC is an American video game development company based in Plano, Texas. Gearbox Software was founded in January 1999 by five members of the content team from the defunct developer Rebel Boat Rocker: Randy Pitchford, Brian Martel,...
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Brothers in Arms: Double Time
James Bond 007: Nightfire Samba de Amigo
Halo: Combat Evolved Aliens: Colonial Marines
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood Borderlands
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x Dynamix   Betrayal at Krondor Heart of China
Dynamix, Inc. was an American developer of video games from 1984 to 2001, best known for their flight simulator, Red Baron, the Front Page Sports series, the acclaimed Betrayal at Krondor, and their online multiplayer game, Tribes. The company was...
Arcticfox The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Abrams Battle Tank A-10 Tank Killer
Tribes 2 Heart of China
Aces of the Pacific Rise of the Dragon
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x New World Computing   Heroes Chronicles Might and Magic II: Gates To Another World
New World Computing, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1984 by Jon Van Caneghem, his wife, Michaela Van Caneghem, and Mark Caldwell. It was best known for its work on the Might and Magic role-playing video game...
Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest Chaos Overlords
Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen Heroes of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars
Might and Magic IX Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
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x Jon Van Caneghem Jon Van Caneghem    
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...
x Stu Megan Stu Megan FMO Chess Club  
Stu , took a break from his retirement, and as a consultant, helped with the Quality Assurance testing of.... Metaweb!
Rays
Squad Patrol
The Secret
x Doug Carlston Carlston.jpg    
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...
x Marc Goodman   The Bilestoad    
x Sir-Tech   Freakin' Funky Fuzzballs Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge
Sir-Tech Software, Inc. was a United States-based video game developer and publisher founded by Norman Sirotek. While the original company closed its doors in 2001, its Canadian counterpart Sir-Tech Canada continued to operate up until late 2003....
Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge
Wizardry 8 Heart of the Maelstrom
Legacy of Llylgamyn Knight of Diamonds
Crusaders of the Dark Savant Legacy of Llylgamyn
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x http://www.dice.se/   Battlefield 1942    
x Zack "Jick" Johnson   Kingdom of Loathing    
x Nintendo Software Technology Nintendo Software Technology Project H.A.M.M.E.R. Pokémon Puzzle League
Fully owned by the Japanese video game corporation Nintendo. NST was created to specifically create games for Nintendo consoles for the North American market. Although Claude Comair (co-founder of DigiPen) was co-founder of NST, he retired from his...
Mario vs. Donkey Kong Project H.A.M.M.E.R.
Wave Race: Blue Storm Mario vs. Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Plus Crystalis
1080° Avalanche 1080° Avalanche
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x LucasArts 500px-Lucasarts_logo_svg.png Labyrinth: The Computer Game Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is a American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s. Today, it...
The Dig Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Full Throttle Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
LOOM Star Wars: Force Unleashed
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x Westwood Studios FormerWestwood Command & Conquer: Red Alert Command & Conquer
Westwood Studios was a video game developer, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Westwood Associates and was renamed Westwood Studios when it merged with Virgin Interactive in 1992. The company was...
SAGE engine Command & Conquer: Red Alert
The Lion King Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Renegade Dune 2000
Roadwar 2000 Sports Car GT
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x Double Fine Productions   Psychonauts Brütal Legend
Double Fine Productions is an American video game developer founded in July 2000 by Tim Schafer after his departure from LucasArts. He started Double Fine with programmers David Dixon (Ocean of America, Capcom, LucasArts) and Jonathan Menzies ...
Brütal Legend Brütal Legend
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster Psychonauts
Double Fine Adventure Psychonauts
x Delphine Software International   Flashback: The Quest for Identity Flashback: The Quest for Identity
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...
Another World Shaq Fu
Cruise for a Corpse Flashback: The Quest for Identity
Operation Stealth Fade to Black
Future Wars Darkstone
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x Bullfrog Productions   Populous Populous
Bullfrog Productions was a UK computer game developer that was founded in 1987 by Les Edgar and Peter Molyneux. The company achieved recognition in 1989 for their third release, Populous. At the time of the company's founding, Edgar and Molyneux...
Powermonger Syndicate
Theme Park World Theme Park
Theme Park Populous II
Flood Powermonger
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x Realtime Games Software   Carrier Command Starglider
Realtime Games Software Ltd. is a defunct British video game developer. It was founded in 1984 by three Leeds University students, Ian Oliver, Andrew Onions and Graeme Baird. Their first game, 3D Tank Duel, was a wireframe graphics game in the style...
Battle Command Carrier Command
Starglider
x Jeff Minter Jeff Minter at Assembly 2004 Revenge of the Mutant Camels  
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...
Attack of the Mutant Camels
Llamatron
Abductor
Hover Bovver
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x Cavedog Entertainment   Total Annihilation Total Annihilation
Cavedog Entertainment, or Cavedog, was a video game developer based in Bothell, Washington. Cavedog gained the attention of gamers and the gaming press alike with the 1997 release of Total Annihilation (TA), winning many accolades such as multiple...
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms Total Annihilation
Amen: The Awakening Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics
Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency Total Annihilation: Kingdoms
Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics
x Bethesda Softworks   The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Bethesda Softworks, LLC, is an American video game company. A subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, the company was originally based in Bethesda, Maryland and eventually moved to their current location in Rockville, Maryland. Consisting of a broad portfolio...
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion
The Terminator 2029 Fallout 3
The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine
Delta-V The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
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x Square Enix   Final Fantasy XII The World Ends With You
Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. (株式会社スクウェア・エニックス・ホールディングス, Kabushiki-gaisha Sukuea Enikkusu Hōrudingusu) TYO: 9684 is a Japanese video game publisher and distribution company best known for its role-playing video game franchises, which include the...
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift Crystal Defenders
Final Fantasy XIII Crystal Defenders W2
Kingdom Hearts II Crystal Defenders W3
Final Fantasy Versus XIII Crystal Defenders: Vanguard Storm
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x Taito Corporation   Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 Arkanoid
The Taito Corporation (株式会社タイトー, kabushikigaisha taitō) is a Japanese publisher of video game software and arcade hardware wholly owned by publisher Square Enix. Taito has their headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya,...
Bust-a-Move 3000 Bust-A-Move
Bubble Memories Cooking Mama
Big Event Golf Space Invaders
Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color Space Invaders Infinity Gene
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x Maelstrom Games   Flames of Freedom Midwinter  
Midwinter Midwinter
Flames of Freedom
x Computer's Dream   B.A.T.  
Computer's Dream was the developer of the B.A.T. series, including the first B.A.T. and its sequel The Koshan Conspiracy. The team consisted of Olivier Cordoleani and Hervé Lange. Computer's Dream was renamed to Haiku Studios in 1993, which...
B.A.T. II - The Koshan Conspiracy
x Cave   Ibara DeathSmiles
CAVE Interactive CO.,LTD., also known as CAVE Co., Ltd. (Computer Art Visual Entertainment), is a Japanese video game company, known primarily for its manic shoot 'em ups. Cave remains one of the most active makers of arcade shoot-'em-ups in the...
Pink Sweets - Ibara Sorekara Ketsui - Kizuna Jigoku Tachi
ESP Ra.De. Mushihime-sama Futari
Espgaluda DonPachi
Espgaluda II DeathSmiles
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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...
x Eighting Co., Ltd.   Dimahoo Bleach: Heat the Soul
Eighting Co., Ltd. (also called 8ing/Raizing, Eighting/Raizing, Raizing (ライジング), Eighting (エイティング), or 8ing) is a Japanese video game company mainly known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. Raizing was formed primarily from staff...
Kururin Squash! Bleach: Heat the Soul 2
Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 Bleach: Heat the Soul 3
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors Bleach: Heat the Soul 4
1944: The Loop Master Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3
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x Peter Stock   Armadillo Run    
x Frontier Developments   RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 LostWinds
Frontier Developments is a video game developer based in Cambridge, England. It is a private limited company and was incorporated in January 1994. The company is still headed by David Braben, in the position of chairman. Frontier was released in...
Virus LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias
The Outsider RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo Thrillville
Dog's Life Thrillville: Off the Rails
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x Chris Sawyer   Transport Tycoon RollerCoaster 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...
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
RollerCoaster Tycoon RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
x Nadeo   TrackMania Virtual Skipper 5: 32nd America's Cup: The Game
Nadeo is a French video game developer, based in Paris. They are the developers of the TrackMania, QuestMania, ShootMania and Virtual Skipper series of video games. In February 2010, advertisements began appearing occasionally on TrackMania load...
Virtual Skipper 5: 32nd America's Cup: The Game TrackMania
x Origin Systems   Strike Commander Autoduel
Origin Systems, Inc. (sometimes abbreviated as OSI) was a video game developer based in Austin, Texas that was active from 1983 to 2004. It is most famous for the Ultima and Wing Commander series. The company was founded in 1983 by brothers Richard...
Wing Commander: Armada Ultima I
Ultima Online: Age of Shadows Ultima II
Ultima Online Ultima III
Ultima Online: Third Dawn Wing Commander
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x HummingBirdSoft   Deep Dungeon  
HummingBirdSoft (ハミングバードソフト) is a defunct Japanese video game company. The company was established in 1982 as a real estate agent, but in 1983 began to develop video games. The company heavily participated in the Disk Original Group, a collective...
x Virtuality   Missile Command 3D  
Virtuality is the debut single released by virtual girl group (i.e. cartoon animations) the V-Birds, released in April, 2003. The girls sing about their "cosmic nature", and introduce themselves one by one in a rap section. The video shows the girls...
x Synapse Software   New York City Alley Cat
Synapse Software Corporation (marketed as SynSoft in the UK) was an American computer game development and publishing company active during the early-1980s. They developed primarily for the Atari 400 and 800 computers, and (later on) the Commodore...
Alley Cat Blue Max
Blue Max Choplifter
Blue Max
Zaxxon
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x Moonpod   Starscape Mr. Robot
Moonpod is a computer game company founded in 2002 and located in Sheffield in the UK. It was founded by Mark Featherstone, Nick Tipping and Darren Griffiths (who later left the company in 2005), having left Rage Software Limited shortly before it...
Mr. Robot Starscape
x Tri-Ace   Star Ocean: Blue Sphere Star Ocean
tri-Ace, Incorporated (株式会社トライエース, Kabushiki Gaisha Toraiēsu) is a Japanese video game development company formed in March 1995 by former Telenet Japan employees Yoshiharu Gotanda (programmer, current tri-Ace President), Masaki Norimoto (game...
Infinite Undiscovery Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria Infinite Undiscovery
Radiata Stories Resonance of Fate
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time Star Ocean: The Second Story
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x Fuse Games   Metroid Prime Pinball Mario Pinball Land
Silverball Studios, formerly known as Fuse Games is a Cotswold, Burford based video game developer best known for developing pinball games for Nintendo. The small team were founded by the makers of the award winning Pro Pinball series of computer...
Mario Pinball Land Metroid Prime Pinball
x Ganksoft Entertainment   DC Tonic  
Ganksoft Entertainment is an American video game and computer game developer. "Ganksoft Entertainment" was started by Brian Peek in 1998 as a group name for his software projects. Ganksoft has grown since then, and has gone from a group releasing...
Marbol
x Taldren, Inc.   Star Trek: Starfleet Command III Star Trek: Starfleet Command III
Taldren, Inc. in Costa Mesa, California, was the developer behind the Star Trek: Starfleet Command series published by Activision and Interplay. The company was founded by Erik Bethke, Sean Dumas, and Zachary Drummond as well as 6 other members of...
Star Trek Starfleet Command II: Empires at War Star Trek Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates
Star Trek Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates
x Wolf Team   Tales of Phantasia Arcus Odyssey
Wolf Team ((株)ウルフチーム) is a now closed videogames developer studio founded in 1986 as part of Telenet Japan and was originally headed by Masahiro Akishino. Wolfteam became independent from Telenet in 1987, was reintegrated in 1990 and got merged with...
Arcus II: Silent Symphony Tales of Phantasia
El Viento Zan II Spirits
Tales of Eternia Arcus II: Silent Symphony
Road Avenger Arcus Odyssey
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x Ozark Softscape   The Seven Cities of Gold M.U.L.E.
Ozark Softscape was a computer game programming team consisting initially of Dan Bunten, Bill Bunten, Jim Rushing, and Alan Watson. The company was based out of Little Rock, Arkansas and had profound success with a few of their early titles. Ozark...
M.U.L.E. The Seven Cities of Gold
Robot Rascals Command HQ
Cytron Masters The Seven Cities of Gold
Modem Wars The Seven Cities of Gold
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