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Warren Spector Facts

Warren Spector (born October 2, 1955) is an American role-playing and video game designer. He is known for creating games which give players a wide variety of choices in how to progress. Consequences of those choices are then shown in the simulated g

John Romero Facts

Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American director, designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dange

Satoshi Tajiri Facts

Satoshi Tajiri (Japanese: 田尻 智, Hepburn: Tajiri Satoshi, born August 28, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer best known as the creator of Pokémon and the founder of video game developer Game Freak, Inc. An avid fan of arcade games, Tajiri

Brenda Brathwaite Facts

Brenda Louise Romero (née Garno, born October 12, 1966), previously known as Brenda Brathwaite, is an American game designer and developer in the video game industry. She was born in Ogdensburg, New York and is a graduate of Clarkson University. Rom

Charles Cecil Facts

Charles Cecil MBE (born 11 August 1962) is a British video game designer and co-founder of Revolution Software. Cecil was brought to the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was still very young, but was evacuated at two years after Mobutu Sese S

Shinji Mikami Facts

Shinji Mikami (三上 真司, Mikami Shinji, born August 11, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer best known for creating the survival horror series Resident Evil. He also contributed to some of Capcom’s most popular post-32-bit era franchises, in

Sophia George Facts

Fans of the Victoria and Albert Museum may soon be able to experience its collection in a totally different way: by playing a computer game.The 160-year old art and design museum has appointed Sophia George, a computer game designer who won a Bafta l

Jordan Mechner Facts

Jordan Mechner (born June 4, 1964) is an American video game designer, author, screenwriter, and filmmaker, best known for creating the Prince of Persia video game franchise and the 8-bit game Karateka.

Roberta Williams Facts

Roberta Williams (born February 16, 1953) is an American video game designer, writer and a co-founder of Sierra On-Line (later known as Sierra Entertainment), who developed her first game while living in Simi Valley, California. She is most famous fo

Ken Levine Facts

Ken Levine (born September 1, 1966) is an American game developer, He was the creative director and co-founder of Irrational Games. He led the creation of BioShock, and is also known for his work on Thief: The Dark Project and System Shock 2. He was