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| x Jordan Mechner |
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Karateka |
Jordan Mechner (born 4 June 1964) is an American game programmer, game designer, screenwriter and movie director. Mechner was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in Psychology in 1985. He is best known for creating the...
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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 programmer and designer of several popular computer strategy games who has won accolades for his contributions to the computer games industry. Meier is a Director of Creative Development...
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| Sid Meier's Railroads! | |||
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| x Will Wright |
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SimCity 3000 |
William 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 Club", an...
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| SimAnt | |||
| SimCopter | |||
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| x Silas Warner |
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Castle Wolfenstein |
Silas Warner (18 August 1949 – 3 March 2004) was a game programmer and the first employee of Muse Software. Among other games, he created Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein. These two games inspired id Software to create Wolfenstein 3D...
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| x Shigeru Miyamoto |
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Donkey Kong |
Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本 茂, Miyamoto Shigeru) (born November 16, 1952 in Sonobe cho, Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese video game designer and producer who has been called the "father of modern video games" and "the Walt Disney of electronic gaming" for...
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| Mario Bros. | |||
| Devil World | |||
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| x Chris Crawford | Gossip |
Chris Crawford is a noted computer game designer and writer. He created a number of important games in the 1980s, founded The Journal of Computer Game Design, and organized the Computer Game Developers' Conference.
After receiving a B.S. in physics...
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| Eastern Front | |||
| Legionnaire | |||
| Wizard | |||
| x Brian Reynolds |
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Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots |
Brian Reynolds (born 1967) is a well known computer strategy game designer, formerly of MicroProse and Firaxis Games. He works at chief designer at Zynga East and has been chairman of the International Game Developers Association. He has played a...
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| Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends | |||
| Rise of Nations | |||
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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 |
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Mystery House |
Roberta Williams (born February 16, 1953) is an American video game designer. She is most famous for her pioneering work in graphical adventure games, particularly the King's Quest series.
In the eighties and nineties, Roberta and her husband, Ken...
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| The Colonel's Bequest | |||
| The Wizard and the Princess | |||
| The Dark Crystal | |||
| x Ken Williams |
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Mystery House |
Ken Williams (born October 1954) is an American game programmer and co-founder with his wife Roberta Williams of On-Line Systems, which later became Sierra On-Line. Roberta and Ken married at the age of 19 and have two children. The couple have been...
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| The Wizard and the Princess | |||
| 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 computer game designer. He is known for having worked to merge elements of role-playing games and first-person shooters. He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife,...
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| Deus Ex | |||
| Ultima VII | |||
| Deus Ex: Invisible War | |||
| Ultima VI | |||
| x Robyn Miller | The Manhole |
Robyn Charles Miller (born April 2, 1960, in London, England) 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 | |||
| 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...
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| Myst | |||
| Myst V: End of Ages | |||
| Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel | |||
| x Eugene Jarvis |
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Defender |
Eugene Peyton Jarvis (born 1955) is a game designer and programmer, 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: 2084 in the...
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| Stargate | |||
| Blaster | |||
| Cruis'n Exotica | |||
| Smash TV | |||
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| x Joe Ybarra |
Joe Ybarra (born ~1954) is one of the original game producers at Electronic Arts in 1982 (along with Stewart Bonn, Dave Evans, Susan Lee-Merrow and Pat Marriott), where the concept of a game producer was created by Trip Hawkins. During this time he...
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| x Raymond E. Feist |
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Betrayal at Krondor |
Raymond Elias Feist (born 1945, Los Angeles, California) 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 computer game designer and game programmer. He is best known as part of the team that created one of the first hit text adventure computer games, Zork.
Blank first encountered Don Woods and Will Crowther's Adventure game...
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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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| x Jon Van Caneghem | Heroes of Might and Magic |
Jon Van Caneghem is a computer game designer and producer. He is most recognized for creating the Might and Magic role-playing game series and its strategy spin-off Heroes of Might and Magic.
Van Caneghem founded New World Computing in 1983. The...
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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 was CEO, chairman, and co-founder (with brother Gary) of Brøderbund Software, a software publishing firm that produced such hit titles as Myst and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. Brøderbund was acquired by The Learning Company...
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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 | Thief: The Dark Project |
Ken Levine is a founding member of, and creative director at 2K Boston, formerly known as Irrational Games. He previously worked at Looking Glass Studios, which he joined in 1995. He was born in New York to a Jewish family.
Some of the games he has...
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| System Shock 2 | |||
| Tribes: Vengeance | |||
| x Sean Clark | Escape from Monkey Island |
Sean W. 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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| The Dig | |||
| x Michael Stemmle |
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Escape from Monkey Island |
Michael Stemmle is a computer game writer, designer and director (sometimes designated as a "project leader" in LucasArts parlance) who co-created some of LucasArts' adventure games in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was also an uncredited script...
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| Sam & Max Hit the Road | |||
| Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People | |||
| Sam & Max: Freelance Police | |||
| Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People - Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner | |||
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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 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 also co-founder of...
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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 recently directed a game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 called...
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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 Purcell is an American comic book writer, 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, for which...
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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 | 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 | |||
| x Hal Barwood | 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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| 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 | 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 the United States).
Éric Chahi started programming on Oric Atmos and Amstrad during 1983 for the company Loriciels. He then...
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| Future Wars | |||
| Heart of Darkness | |||
| 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 is responsible for well known God games Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and Black & White, among others, as well as business simulation games such as...
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| Powermonger | |||
| Populous II | |||
| Dungeon Keeper | |||
| Theme Park | |||
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| x Jeff Minter |
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Llamatron |
Jeff 'Yak' Minter (born in Reading, April 22, 1962) is a British computer/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...
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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 | ||
| 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 acquired a BA in history and a master's degree in...
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| Civilization III | |||
| x Peter Stock | Armadillo Run | ||
| x Chris Sawyer |
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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 entered the games industry in 1983, writing games in Z80 machine code on the Memotech MTX...
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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 in Umejima, Adachi, Tokyo) is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical...
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| x Randy Smith | Thief: Deadly Shadows |
Randy Smith may refer to:
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| x GSC Game World |
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Heroes of Annihilated Empires |
GSC Game World is a Kiev-based computer 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 is...
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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 |
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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 Irish video game developer who has created dozens of computer 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 from...
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| Wild 9 | |||
| Sacrifice | |||
| Earthworm Jim 2 | |||
| Global Gladiators | |||
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| x Scott Campbell | Psychonauts |
Scott Campbell is an American musician, composer, and actor.
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1958, Scott Herbert Carl Campbell began writing poetry at the age of six and songs at the age of eight. He taught himself guitar, piano, alto saxophone, oboe,...
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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 | |||
| Black & White 2 | |||
| 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 and PlayStation 3.
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