List of video game designers
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This is a list of notable video game designers, past and present, in alphabetical order. The people in this list designed either computer games, console games, arcade games or some other type of video game.
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[edit] A
- Christian Allen, of the Ghost Recon series and Lead Designer on Halo: Reach
- Michel Ancel, creator of the Rayman series, Beyond Good & Evil and King Kong
- Chris Avellone, of Fallout 2, Knights of the Old Republic 2 and most notably Planescape:Torment
- Ed Averett, a Magnavox Odyssey2 developer of titles like K.C. Munchkin and 24 other titles in 4 years
[edit] B
- Ralph Baer, the Father of Video Games, created Chase game (1967), the first game played in a television set.
- Clive Barker, creator of Undying and Jericho.
- Doug Barnett, designer/writer/artist Lords of the Rising Sun, Star Rank Boxing, Ghostbusters II and Return to Zork.
- Richard Bartle, co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon.
- Chris Bateman, designer/writer of Discworld Noir and Ghost Master
- Chris Beatrice: Caesar and Lords of the Realm.
- Marc Blank: Co-designer of Zork, co-founder of Infocom
- Cliff Bleszinski: member of Epic games lead designer of Gears of War and Gears of War 2 and level designer of Unreal series.
- Ed Boon: Co-Creator of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.
- Brenda Brathwaite: designer, writer and level designer on Wizardry series, creator of Train and Siochan Leat.
- Bill Budge: Raster Blaster and Pinball Construction Set
- Danielle Bunten (deceased): M.U.L.E., The Seven Cities of Gold
[edit] C
- Tim Cain, main designer of Fallout and Arcanum, founder of Troika Games
- Rich Carlson, co-designer of Strange Adventures in Infinite Space and Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, co-founder of Digital Eel
- Eric Chahi, Developer and Designer of Another World, and Heart of Darkness.
- Doug Church: Ultima Underworld, Ultima Underworld 2 and System Shock
- Chris Crawford: Eastern Front (1941), Balance of Power, founder of the Computer Game Developers' Conference, pioneer of interactive storytelling
- Paul Cross: Designer Burnout, Burnout 2: Point of Impact, lead designer Burnout 3: Takedown, and Burnout Revenge, credited on Skate (video game), No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, creative director of Rocksmith
- Ian Cummings: Madden NFL series, NCAA Football series with EA Sports.
[edit] D
- Don Daglow: designer of Dungeon, Intellivision Utopia, Earl Weaver Baseball, Neverwinter Nights
- Cameron Davis: Lead designer of TY The Tasmanian Tiger 2 (Game Boy Advance), TY The Tasmanian Tiger 3 (Game Boy Advance), The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, Viva Pinata: Party Animals
- Dino Dini: designer of Kick Off, Kick Off 2, Player Manager, GOAL!, Dino Dini's Soccer
- Marko Dieckmann: designer of Face of Mankind
[edit] F
- Brian Fargo: founder of Interplay Entertainment, InXile Entertainment and developer of Bard's Tale and Wasteland
- Steve Feak: developer of DotA Allstars and lead designer of League of Legends
- Kelton Flinn: designer of Air Warrior and many other pioneering online games, co-founder of Kesmai
[edit] G
- Toby Gard: designer in Tomb Raider, and creator of Lara Croft
- Richard Garriott (a.k.a. Lord British): creator of the Ultima series and founder of Origin Systems
- Ron Gilbert: designer of Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games
- Tyler Glaiel: designer of Closure and Aether
- Julian Gollop, designer of Chaos, Laser Squad and X-COM: UFO Defense.
- Allen Goode, co-designer of Company of Heroes, The Outfit and CSI
- Andrew Gower, designer of RuneScape
- Brian 'Psychochild' Green, designer of Meridian 59
- Stefano Gualeni: Creator and designer of the Tony Tough series, writer and designer for Dangerous Heaven
[edit] H
- Jon Hare: designer/director of Sensible Soccer series, Cannon Fodder series and Wizball series, co-founder of Sensible Software
- Stieg Hedlund: Diablo, Diablo II, StarCraft
- William Higinbotham: Tennis for Two (1958)
- Yuji Horii: Square Enix - Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger
- Todd Howard: Bethesda Softworks - Elder Scrolls series, Fallout 3
- Casey Hudson: Bioware - Mass Effect series, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
[edit] I
- IceFrog: developer of Defense of the Ancients and lead designer of Dota 2
- Koji Igarashi: Konami - current producer of the Castlevania series
- Tomonobu Itagaki: Tecmo Team Ninja - former designer of the Dead or Alive (DOA) games and Ninja Gaiden
- Shigesato Itoi: creator of the EarthBound/Mother series
[edit] J
- David Jaffe: creator of God of War and designer on the Twisted Metal series
- Paul Jaquays: leader of game design for Coleco in the 1980s and, more recently, designer & level designer for Quake 2, Quake III Arena and Quake III: Team Arena
- Eugene Jarvis, creator of Defender, Robotron: 2084, Target: Terror and The Fast and The Furious
- Soren Johnson: co-designer of Civilization III and lead designer for Civilization IV
- Jason Jones: lead project for the Halo Trilogy
[edit] K
- Mathias Karlson: World in Conflict
- Iikka Keränen, co-designer of Strange Adventures in Infinite Space and Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, co-founder of Digital Eel
- Rieko Kodama: Sega - Phantasy Star series, Skies of Arcadia
- Hideo Kojima: Konami - Metal Gear Solid series, Snatcher and Policenauts
- Andrey Kuzmin: KranX Productions - Perimeter, Biprolex+, Vangers: One For The Road and Spanking Runners
[edit] L
- Marc Laidlaw, designer/writer at Valve on the Half-Life games
- Ken Levine, creator of Bioshock and Thief: The Dark Project Series
- Ken Lobb, creator of GoldenEye 007
- Ed Logg, creator of Asteroids, Centipede and Gauntlet
- Al Lowe, creator of the Leisure Suit Larry series
[edit] M
- Gregg Mayles: designer for the Banjo-Kazooie series and Viva Piñata
- American McGee: American McGee's Alice, Doom, Quake, American McGee's Grimm
- Edmund McMillen: independent game artist and designer for Gish, Aether, and others
- Stephen Marley: designer/writer of Martian Gothic: Unification
- Colin McComb: designer for Planescape: Torment
- Jordan Mechner: Prince of Persia series
- Sid Meier: Civilization series, Railroad Tycoon
- Steve Meretzky: designer/writer of numerous Infocom titles, including Planetfall, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging and Leather Goddesses of Phobos
- Shinji Mikami: of Capcom - the Resident Evil series
- Robyn and Rand Miller: the brothers who designed Myst and some of its sequels.
- Jeff Minter: founder of Llamasoft.
- Shigeru Miyamoto: Nintendo EAD - Donkey Kong, Mario, Legend of Zelda & many others
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi: Q Entertainment (formally with Sega UGA) - Lumines, Rez, Space Channel 5 & others
- Peter Molyneux: Created Populous, Syndicate and Black and White, Fable, founded Bullfrog Software and Lionhead Studios
- Brian Moriarty: designer/writer of Trinity and Loom
- David Mullich: The Prisoner, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, director or producer of many others
[edit] N
Glen Mcknight- designer for rockband
- Yuji Naka: (Sega Sonic Team) - Sonic the Hedgehog, Phantasy Star Online, Nights into Dreams... & others
- Gabe Newell: Founded Valve Corporation
- Garry Newman: designer of Garry's Mod
- Toshihiro Nishikado: Space Invaders
- Tetsuya Nomura: Square Enix - Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts
[edit] O
- Yoshiki Okamoto: Game Republic, Capcom, Konami - Street Fighter (series) & others
- Henrique Olifiers: designer of media convergence games such as My Big Brother, Herois e vampiros and Conquista de Titã. Also co-founder of Finalboss.com, a Latin American gaming news portal.
- Scott Orr: Designer of original version of Madden NFL, many other design credits
[edit] P
- Alexey Pajitnov: Tetris
- David Perry: MDK, Earthworm Jim and more
- Steven Pederson: Space, Terrorist and more
- Markus "Notch" Persson Minecraft, Prelude of the Chambered
- Sandy Petersen: Lightspeed, Doom, Rise of Rome and more
- Simon Phipps: Rick Dangerous, ShadowMan, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and others.
- John Pickford: founder of Zed Two and Zee-3, and creator of Plok, Wetrix, Naked War and others.
- Ste Pickford: founder of Zed Two and Zee-3, and creator of Plok, Wetrix, Naked War and others.
- Peter Porai-Koshits: founder of MADia Entertainment, and creator of Echelon (flight simulator), Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory and others.
- Ted Price: Founder of Insomniac Games
[edit] R
- Rick Raymer: Clue, Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom and others
- Brian Reynolds: Civilization II, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Rise of Nations
- Scott Rogers: God of War, Pac-Man World and Maximo series
- Ken Rolston: The Elder Scrolls
- John Romero: Doom and Quake lead designer and level designer, Daikatana producer, co-founder of id Software, Ion Storm and Monkeystone Games
- Richard Rouse III: designer/writer of The Suffering games and author of the book Game Design: Theory and Practice
[edit] S
- Hironobu Sakaguchi: Mistwalker (formally with Square Co.) Final Fantasy series and Chrono Trigger
- Masahiro Sakurai: Creator of Kirby, designer of the Super Smash Bros. series, founder of Sora Ltd.
- Chris Sawyer, creator of the Transport Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon series.
- Josh Sawyer: Neverwinter Nights 2, Icewind Dale series, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series
- Tim Schafer, designer of Grim Fandango and Psychonauts
- Jeremiah Slaczka, Creative Director of 5TH Cell, designer of Scribblenauts and Drawn to Life
- Warren Spector: System Shock, Thief series, Deus Ex
- Goichi Suda: designer of Killer7
- Yu Suzuki, Sega-AM2 designer of many classics that became genres, such as Afterburner, Hang-On, Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter series, Ferrari F355 Challenge and the Shenmue series.
- Kim Swift, project lead for Portal
[edit] T
- Satoshi Tajiri: creator of Pokémon games
- Tōru Iwatani: creator Pac-Man for Namco
- Toshiro Tsuchida: Front Mission series
- John Tobias: Co-creator of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.
- Michael Toy: co-designer of Rogue
- Chris Taylor, pioneered the use of both 3D units and terrain in the RTS game Total Annihilation.
- Dan Teasdale: Rock Band series of rhythm-action music games.
- Deborah Todd: veteran woman game designer and writer for Humongous Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Houghton Mifflin, Disney Interactive and author of Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light
- Andy Tudor: Design Lead on the Need for Speed "SHIFT" franchise
[edit] U
- Fumito Ueda: creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus
[edit] V
- Jon Van Caneghem: Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic series
[edit] W
- Jordan Weisman: Founder of FASA Corporation, co-creator of BattleTech and MechWarrior
- Richard Vander Wende: co-designer/director of Riven
- Glenn Wichman: co-designer of Rogue, designer of Mombasa and Toxic Ravine
- Roberta Williams: Designer of King's Quest and other series, pioneered graphic adventure game genre, co-founded Sierra Entertainment
- Tim Willits: Designer on id software titles The Ultimate Doom, Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Quake III: Team Arena and Doom 3
- Will Wright: game designer of SimCity series, The Sims series and Spore, co-founder of Maxis
[edit] Y
- Kazunori Yamauchi: Polyphony Digital - Gran Turismo
- Gunpei Yokoi (deceased): inventor of handheld gaming (Game Boy and other handhelds) and several arcade games
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Giant List of Classic Game Programmers which concentrates on 8-bit era game programmers who were usually also the game's designer
