List of computer and video game industry people
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Below is a list of game industry people, people who work or have worked in the video game industry, on video or computer games.
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. In these cases, the people appear in both sections.
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Game design
- Bill Budge: Raster Blaster and Pinball Construction Set
- Dani Bunten (deceased): M.U.L.E., The Seven Cities of Gold, Modem Wars
- Chris Crawford: Eastern Front (1941), Balance of Power, founder of the Computer Game Developers' Conference, pioneer of interactive storytelling
- Brian Fargo: founder of Interplay Entertainment, InXile Entertainment and developer of Bard's Tale and Wasteland
- Richard Garriott (a.k.a. Lord British): creator of the Ultima series and founder of Origin Systems
- Yuji Horii: Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger
- Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear Solid series
- Mark Leffler : Zillions of games
- Jeff Mallet : Zillions of games
- American McGee: American McGee's Alice
- Sid Meier: Civilization series, Railroad Tycoon
- Shigeru Miyamoto: Donkey Kong, Mario, Legend of Zelda & others
- Peter Molyneux: Created Populous, Syndicate and Black and White, founded Bullfrog Software
- Alexey Pajitnov: Tetris
- John Romero: Doom and Quake level designer, Daikatana producer, co-founder of id Software, Ion Storm and Monkeystone Games
- Hironobu Sakaguchi: Final Fantasy series and Chrono Trigger
- Kou Shibusawa: producer of Sangokushi series and Nobunaga no yabo series
- Warren Spector: System Shock series, Thief series, Deus Ex
- Yu Suzuki: Hang-On, Afterburner, Shenmue, Space Harrier and many other games for Sega
- Toshiro Tsuchida: Front Mission series
- Roberta Williams: Designer of King's Quest and other series, pioneered graphic adventure game genre, co-founded Sierra Entertainment
- Will Wright: game designer of SimCity series and The Sims series, co-founder of Maxis
- Gunpei Yokoi (deceased): inventor of handheld gaming, Metroid producer, Tetris Attack producer, Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu producer
- Shouzou Kaga: Fire Emblem series
Online gaming
- Richard Bartle: Wrote the first MUD along with Roy Trubshaw
- Richard Garriott (a.k.a. Lord British): Creator of Ultima Online, Work on Lineage, Lineage 2 (Electronic Arts, NCsoft)
- Brad McQuaid: Co-Creator of EverQuest (Verant Interactive, Sony Online Entertainment, Sigil Games)
- Raph Koster: LegendMUD, Ultima Online, Star Wars: Galaxies. (Electronic Arts, Sony Online Entertainment)
- John Smedley: Co-Creator of EverQuest (Verant Interactive, Sony Online Entertainment)
- Jake Song: Creator of Lineage (NCsoft)
- Will Wright: Creator of The Sims Online (Electronic Arts)
Programming
- Bill Budge: Raster Blaster and Pinball Construction Set
- John Carmack: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, co-founded id Software
- Richard Garriott (a.k.a. Lord British): creator of the Ultima series and founder of Origin Systems
- Sid Meier: Civilization series, Railroad Tycoon, co-founder of Firaxis
- Tim Sweeney: founded Epic Games, Unreal series and the Unreal engine
- Will Wright: programmer of first games in SimCity series and co-founder of Maxis
Art and animation
- Jordan Mechner: Introduced realistic movement to video games with Prince of Persia
Music and sound
- Martin Galway: well respected composer for Commodore 64's legendary SID sound chip
- Rob Hubbard: most loved composer for Commodore 64
- Koji Kondo: composer for Super Mario Bros and Zelda series
See List of video game musicians
Technology
- Ralph Baer: Inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first video game console
- John Carmack: pioneered numerous techniques to 3D programming, developed techniques that gave birth to the first-person shooter genre, co-founded id Software
- Gunpei Yokoi: inventor of the Game and Watch, Game Boy and WonderSwan
- Masayuki Uemura: Inventor of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Companies
- Nolan Bushnell: Founder of Atari
- Trip Hawkins: Founder of Electronic Arts
- Ken Kutaragi -- President of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
- Jeff Mallet - Founder of Zillions
- Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka -- President of Pokemon Co.
- Hiroshi Yamauchi -- former president of Nintendo
- Satoru Iwata -- president of Nintendo