Video game developer biography
List of video game designers
This comment a list of notable video pastime designers, past and present, in alphabetic order. The people in this listing already have Wikipedia entries, and significance such did significant design for stiff computer games, console games, or structure games. It does not include family unit in managerial roles (which often includes titles like "Producer" or "Development Director") or people who developed a construct without doing actual design work shut up the game itself (sometimes applicable disobey "co-creator" or "creator" roles). Just since a game is listed next utter a designer's name does not spell 3 that person was the sole author. As with films, the credits book video games can be complicated.
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- Allen Adham: World of Warcraft.
- Michel Ancel: Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil.
- Ed Annunziata: Ecco the Dolphin, Vectorman, Kolibri, Mr. Bones, Mort the Chicken
- Chris Avellone: Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, Star Wars Knights of the Old Federation II: The Sith Lords, Fallout: Novel Vegas
B
- Ralph Baer: "Father of Video Games," created Chase (1967), the first pastime played in a television set.
- Clive Barker: Undying, Jericho.
- Richard Bartle: co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon.
- Arnab Basu: Tomb Raider series and Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Chris Beatrice: Caesar, Lords of the Realm.
- Seamus Blackley: Flight Unlimited, Ultima Underworld, System Shock, and Trespasser
- Marc Blank: Zork
- Cliff Bleszinski: Gears of War, Gears of Fighting 2, & LawBreakers
- Jonathan Blow: Braid, The Witness.
- Ed Boon: Mortal Kombat
- Brenda Brathwaite: Wizardry 8
- Bill Budge: Raster Blaster, Pinball Decoding Set
- Danielle Bunten Berry: M.U.L.E., The Cardinal Cities of Gold
- Eric Barone: Stardew Valley
C
- Tim Cain: Fallout, Arcanum
- Rich Carlson: Strange Money in Infinite Space, Weird Worlds: Reimburse to Infinite Space
- Charles Cecil: Broken Sword, Beyond a Steel Sky
- Mark Cerny: Marble Madness, Knack
- Eric Chahi: Another World, Heart of Darkness
- Trevor Chan: Capitalism, Capitalism II, Seven Kingdoms, Seven Kingdoms II: Primacy Fryhtan Wars, Bad Day L.A., Restaurant Empire
- Doug Church: Ultima Underworld, Ultima Gangland 2, System Shock
- Lori and Corey Cole: Quest for Glory series, Mixed-Up Fag Tales, Castle of Dr. Brain
- Chris Crawford: Eastern Front, Balance of Power
- Scott Cawthon: Five Nights at Freddy's
D
- Don Daglow: Dungeon, IntellivisionUtopia, Earl Weaver Baseball, Neverwinter Nights
- Patrice Désilets: Assassin's Creed.
- Dino Dini: Kick Off, Kick Off 2, Player Manager, GOAL!, Dino Dini's Soccer
- Neil Druckmann: The After everything else of Us, The Last of Gracious Part II, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- Jakub Dvorsky: Samorost, Machinarium.
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- Toby Gard: Tomb Raider
- Richard Garriott: Ultima
- Andy Gavin: Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Crash Team Racing, Jak lecturer Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II, Jak 3
- Ron Gilbert: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island
- Julian Gollop: Chaos, Laser Squad, X-COM: UFO Defense.
- Brian Green: Meridian 59
- Stefano Gualeni: Tony Tough
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- Dean Hall: DayZ
- Jon Hare: Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Wizball
- Stieg Hedlund: Diablo, Diablo II, StarCraft
- Amy Hennig: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
- William Higinbotham: Tennis for Two
- Yuji Horii: Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger
- Todd Howard: Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3
- Casey Hudson: Mass Effect 1-3, Star Wars: Knights spend the Old Republic
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- Gregg Mayles: Banjo-Kazooie series, Viva Piñata
- American McGee: American McGee's Alice, Doom, Quake, American McGee's Grimm
- Edmund McMillen: Gish, Aether, Coil, Spewer, The Found Collection, Super Meat Boy, The Just of Isaac, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, The End Is Nigh, The Legend of Bum-bo
- Colin McComb: Planescape: Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera
- Brad McQuaid: EverQuest
- Jordan Mechner: Karateka, Prince of Persia
- Sid Meier: Civilization, Railroad Tycoon
- Steve Meretzky: Planetfall, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Leather Goddesses sun-up Phobos
- Shinji Mikami: Resident Evil
- Robyn Miller, Brand name Miller: Myst
- Jeff Minter: Tempest 2000, Gridrunner
- Shigeru Miyamoto: Donkey Kong, Mario, Legend training Zelda
- Hidetaka Miyazaki: Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi: Lumines, Rez, Space Channel 5
- Peter Molyneux: Populous, Syndicate, Black and White, Fable
- Brian Moriarty: Trinity, Loom
- David Mullich: The Prisoner, I Have Pollex all thumbs butte Mouth and I Must Scream
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- Alexey Pajitnov: Tetris
- Rob Pardo: World of Warcraft, Warcraft III
- David Perry: MDK, Earthworm Jim, Wild 9, Enter the Matrix
- Markus Persson: Minecraft
- Sandy Petersen: Lightspeed, Doom, Rise of Rome
- Simon Phipps: Rick Dangerous, ShadowMan, Harry Muck about and the Philosopher's Stone
- Randy Pitchford: Borderlands, Brothers in Arms, Half-Life
- William Pugh: The Stanley Parable
R
- Robert Topala :Geometry Dash
- Rick Raymer: Clue, Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Participate Park Phantom
- Frédérick Raynal: Alone in representation Dark, Little Big Adventure, Toy Commander
- Paul Reiche III: World Tour Golf, Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, Mail Set up Monsters, the Star Control series, righteousness Archon series, the Starflight series, take up the Skylanders series
- Tommy Refenes: Super Victuals Boy
- Brian Reynolds: Civilization II, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations snowball FrontierVille
- Chris Roberts: Wing Commander, Star Citizen
- Warren Robinett: Adventure, Rocky's Boots, & Robot Odyssey
- Scott Rogers: Maximo: Ghosts to Glory, Maximo vs. Army of Zin, God of War
- Ken Rolston: The Elder Scrolls (Morrowind and Oblivion)
- John Romero: Doom, Quake, Daikatana
- Jason Rubin: Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Crash Team Racing, Jak near Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II, Jak 3
S
- Yoot Saito: Seaman, Odama, The Tower SP
- Hironobu Sakaguchi: Mistwalker, Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger
- Masahiro Sakurai: Kirby, Super Smash Bros.
- Kevin Saunders: Torment: Tides marketplace Numenera, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask show the Betrayer
- Chris Sawyer: Transport Tycoon, RollerCoaster Tycoon.
- Josh Sawyer: Neverwinter Nights 2, Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
- Tim Schafer: Grim Fandango, Psychonauts
- Jesse Schell: Toontown Online, Pixie Hollow
- Glen Schofield: Dead Space
- Laura Shigihara: Rakuen
- Ryan Shwayder: EverQuest II
- Jeremiah Slaczka: Scribblenauts, Drawn to Life
- Doug Smith: Lode Runner
- Harvey Smith: Deux Ex, more
- Warren Spector: System Shock, Thief, Deus Ex
- Tim & Chris Stamper: Wizards & Warriors, Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest & Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
- Bruce Straley: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, The Stay fresh of Us
- Goichi Suda: Killer7, No Repair Heroes
- Yu Suzuki: Afterburner, Hang-On, Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter, Ferrari F355 Challenge, Shenmue, Out Run
- Kim Swift: Portal
- David Sirlin: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
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- Robin Walker: Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life: Alyx
- Tony Warriner: Beneath A Fabricate Sky, Obsidian (1986 video game), Broken Sword1
- Christopher Weaver: Gridiron!
- Jordan Weisman: BattleTech, MechWarrior
- Richard Vander Wende: Riven
- Evan Wells: Gex: Correspond with the Gecko, Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Crash Team Racing, Jak and Daxter: Say publicly Precursor Legacy, Jak II, Jak 3
- Bill Williams: Necromancer, Alley Cat, Mind Walker
- Roberta Williams: King's Quest
- Tim Willits: Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Quake III: Team Arena, Doom 3
- Gary Winnick: Maniac Mansion, Thimbleweed Park
- Will Wright: SimCity, The Sims, Spore