List of 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.

1 Game design
2 Online gaming
3 Programming
4 Art and animation
5 Music and sound
6 Technology
7 Companies

[edit] Game design

See: List of video game designers

[edit] Online gaming

Richard Bartle: Wrote the first MUD along with Roy Trubshaw
Don Daglow: Designed first MMORPG with graphics, Neverwinter Nights for AOL
Elonka Dunin: General Manager at Simutronics, senior editor of IGDA Online Games White Papers
Kelton Flinn: designer of Air Warrior and many other pioneering online games, co-founder of Kesmai
Richard Garriott (a.k.a. Lord British): Creator of Ultima Online, Work on Lineage, Lineage 2 (Electronic Arts, NCsoft)
Raph Koster: LegendMUD, Ultima Online, Star Wars: Galaxies. (Electronic Arts, Sony Online Entertainment)
Brad McQuaid: Co-Creator of EverQuest (Verant Interactive, Sony Online Entertainment, Sigil Games)
John Smedley (developer): Co-Creator of EverQuest (Verant Interactive, Sony Online Entertainment)
Jake Song: Creator of Lineage (NCsoft)
Gordon Walton: Executive producer
Jordan Weisman: Founder of 4orty 2wo Entertainment, co-creator of I Love Bees and The Beast
Will Wright: Creator of The Sims Online (Electronic Arts)
Major Nelson: Xbox Live

[edit] Programming

Michael Abrash: Pioneer of fast graphics routines & author of graphics programming texts
Danielle Bunten Berry: M.U.L.E., Seven Cities of Gold and others
David Braben: co-creator of Elite
Bill Budge: Raster Blaster and Pinball Construction Set
John Carmack: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, co-founded id Software
Don Daglow: '70s mainframe games Baseball, Dungeon. Also did Intellivision Utopia, first sim game
Richard Garriott (a.k.a. Lord British): creator of the Ultima series and founder of Origin Systems
Wesley Huntress: Rendezvous: A Space Shuttle Simulator and Wilderness: A Survival Adventure
Andre Lamothe: Author of several game programming texts
Jordan Mechner: Karateka and Prince of Persia series
Sid Meier: Civilization series, Railroad Tycoon, co-founder of Firaxis
Alan Miller: Original programmer for Atari 2600, co-founded publishers Activision and Accolade
Jeff Minter: Founder of Llamasoft and programmer of most of their games
David Mullich: The Prisoner and other Edu-Ware games
Yuji Naka: Sonic the Hedgehog and other Sega games
Steven Pederson: Terrorist and other Edu-Ware games
Jim Sachs: Programmer of Saucer Attack and other home computer era games
Chris Sawyer: Programmer and designer Roller Coaster Tycoon series and other games
Ken Silverman: Author of the Build engine game engine
Tim Sweeney: founded Epic Games, Unreal series and the Unreal engine
Anne Westfall: Programmer of the Archon series of games
Will Wright: programmer of first games in SimCity series and co-founder of Maxis

See also: Category:Game programmers

[edit] Art and animation

Jordan Mechner: Introduced realistic movement to video games with Prince of Persia
Jim Sachs: Created new standard for quality of art with the release of the Amiga game Defender of the Crown

[edit] Music and sound

Martin Galway: composer for Commodore 64's legendary SID sound chip
Rob Hubbard: composer for Commodore 64
Koji Kondo: composer for Super Mario Bros. and Zelda series
Richard Joseph: Bafta winning sound specialist and composer for Amiga and most popular formats since 1986.
George Sanger: aka The Fat Man, composer on many titles
Nobuo Uematsu: composer for Final Fantasy series
Dave Warhol: composer for many of the Mattel Intellivision games as well as some early EA games