Steve Turner (game programmer)
Steve Turner | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 |
| Occupation(s) | computer game musician designer |
Steve Turner is a former computer game musician and designer. His development team, Graftgold, mostly wrote for games published by Hewson Consultants during the 1980s.
The first computer he bought was a ZX80 which had to be assembled by hand. At school he was a member of a computing club where he learnt the Algol 60 programming language. During the 1970s he added Cobol to his repertoire from a government funded training course. He went on to a programming job in the Civil Service. Turner was 30 when he decided to move into games development. His first game was written whilst he was still employed as a programmer and he handed his notice in when he received his first royalty cheque.[1]
He also wrote a series of articles for ZX Computing between August 1986 and January 1987, called The Professional Touch.[2] Andrew Hewson had previously written for the magazine but got too busy to do it and Turner replaced them.[3]
List of games
[edit]For Hewson Consultants:
- 3D Space Wars (1983)
- 3D Seiddab Attack (1984)
- 3D Lunattack (1984)[4]
- Avalon (1984)[3]
- Dragontorc (1985)[3]
- Astroclone (1985)
- Uridium (1986) (music)
- Alleykat (1986) (music)
- Quazatron (1986)[4]
- Ranarama (1987)
- Zynaps (1987) (music)
- Magnetron (1988)
- Bushido (1989) (design)
- Rainbow Island (1990) (design)[5]
- Simulcra (1990) (design and sound effects)
- Super Off Road (1990) (design)
References
[edit]- ^ "Steve Turner | Retro Gamer". 3 February 2024.
- ^ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=Programming%3a+The+Professional+Touch&loadpics=on [dead link]
- ^ a b c "RVG Interviews: Steve Turner". 26 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Steve Turner (Graftgold) - Interview". Arcade Attack. 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Steve Turner bio". Universal Videogame List.
External links
[edit]- World of Sinclair entry, with links to interviews from ZX Computing and Sinclair User.
- Graftgold
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