Computer Game Developer

Jordan Mechner (born 1964) is a game programmer, game designer, and movie director. Mechner was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University in 1985. Mechner's first hit game was Karateka (1984), written while he was still an undergraduate. Prince of...

Red Orb Entertainment was a division of the Brøderbund software company created to market its gaming titles, distinguishing them from its considerable library of edutainment titles, which it marketed to schools. The name comes from the first six letters of "Broderbund,...

Jordan Mechner founded Smoking Car Productions to create the computer game The Last Express. The company was located in San Francisco from 1993 - 1997 and at its peak had sixty full-time employees The principals included:

Robert Cook is a co-founder of Metaweb. He was a software programmer at Brøderbund in the 1980s and was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game Prince of Persia. He designed and created the computer game D/Generation and was technical director for...

MicroProse, as a corporation and brand name, has been owned by several entities since its original founding by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey in 1982, as Microprose Software, Inc. Founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and Sid Meier, Microprose Software, Inc was primarily known...

Maxis Software is an American company that was founded as a video game developer and is now a brand name of Electronic Arts (EA). Maxis' second software title was the seminal SimCity, a city simulation and planning game. Maxis is also the creator of the best-selling...

Roberta Heuer Williams (born February 16, 1953) is a retired computer game designer. She is perhaps most famous for her pioneering work in graphical adventure games, particularly the King's Quest series. In the eighties and nineties, Roberta and her husband, Ken...

Chris Crawford is a noted computer game designer and writer, responsible for a number of important games in the 1980s, for founding The Journal of Computer Game Design and for organizing the Computer Game Developers' Conference. After receiving a B.S. in physics from...

Chris Roberts (born May 27, 1968) is a computer game designer and programmer and a film producer and director. Often hailed as a visionary, he is best known for creating the popular Wing Commander series while employed at Origin Systems. Born in Redwood City,...

Nintendo Company Ltd. (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki-kaisha; , , ) is a Japan multinational corporation founded on September 23 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. In the mid-twentieth century, the company tried several small...

Activision, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher. It was the first independent developer and distributor of video game for gaming consoles, founded on October 1 1979. Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600 video console system, and it...

Looking Glass Studios was a computer game development company during the 1990s. The company originally formed as Looking Glass Technologies, when Blue Sky Productions and Lerner Research merged. Their games were regarded for demonstrating innovative gameplay,...

Gathering of Developers (aka God Games and Gathering) was a Texas-based PC and video games publishing company, founded in January 1998 with the mission to bridge the gap between publishers and independent game developers. Fueled by past publishing experiences and...

Atomic Games is a video game developer, specializing mostly in wargames. The company has developed titles such as the Close Combat series, the World at War series, as well as the V for Victory series. Atomic Games was acquired by Destineer Games on May 6, 2005 while...

Sigil Games Online, Inc. was a computer game developer based in Carlsbad, California that was founded by Brad McQuaid and Jeff Butler in January 2002. On January 30, 2007, Sigil released their debut game "Vanguard: Saga of Heroes", a massively multiplayer online role...

989 Studios was a division of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) that developed games for the PlayStation consoles and Windows personal computer. Their titles include Twisted Metal III and 4, Syphon Filter and Syphon Filter 2, Jet Moto 3, Bust a Groove,...

Stormfront Studios was a video game developer based in San Rafael, California which had one of the longest creative histories in the industry. In 2007, the company had over 50 developers working on two teams, and owned all its proprietary engines, tools and technology....

The Gearbox Software, LLC is an American video game development company based in Texas, USA was founded in January 1999 They are best known for a number of high-profile PC and console games such as Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood,...

Dynamix, Inc. was an American developer of computer game from 1984 to 2001, best known for their flight simulator, ''Red Baron'', the Front Page Sports series and their online multiplayer game, ''Tribes''. The company was founded in Eugene, Oregon in 1984 by Jeff...

New World Computing, Inc. was an American computer game developer and publisher founded in 1984 by Jon Van Caneghem and Mark Caldwell. It was best known for its work on the Might and Magic RPG series and its spin-offs, especially Heroes of Might and Magic. The company...

Jon Van Caneghem is a computer game designer and producer. He is most recognized for creating the Might and Magic role-playing game series and its strategy spin-off Heroes of Might and Magic. Van Caneghem founded New World Computing in 1983. The company was acquired...

Stu Megan, now semi-retired, has been a computer software professional since 1968, having worked on everything from early core memory computers using only switches for control to recent internet technology products such as Directory Server, [in use by over 80% of...

Doug Carlston was CEO, chairman, and co-founder (with brother Gary) of Brøderbund Software, a software publishing firm that produced such hit titles as Myst and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. Brøderbund was acquired by The Learning Company for $420 million,...

Sir-Tech Software, Inc. was a United States computer game developer and publisher founded by Robert Woodhead and Norman Sirotek. While the original company closed its doors, its Canadian counter-part Sir-Tech Canada continues to operate. Sir-Tech is best known for...

Nintendo Software Technology Corporation (often just Nintendo Software Technology, or "NST") is an American-based first-party developer for the Japan video game corporation Nintendo. NST was created to specifically create titles for Nintendo systems for the North...