Video game developers

Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw (born 24 May 1983, Rugby, Warwickshire, England) is a British comedic writer, video game journalist, humorist, author, and video game developer.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American programmer, Internet entrepreneur, executive, and philanthropist.

Edmund McMillen (born March 2, 1980) is an American video game designer and artist known for his flash-game visual style.

Mike O'Brien is the president and co-founder of ArenaNet and executive producer of its games Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2.

Geoff Crammond is a computer game designer and programmer who specialises in motor racing games.

Rod Humble (born 1 June 1964) is the former Chief Executive Officer of Second Life creator Linden Lab, Chief Creative Officer at ToyTalk and former Executive Vice President for the EA Play label of the video game company Electronic Arts.

Istvan Pely, born in 1974, is an American game artist.

Genyo Takeda (竹田 玄洋 Takeda Gen'yō, born on March 7, 1949, in Osaka, Japan) is the "Technology Fellow" of Nintendo and former general manager of Nintendo's integrated research division (IRD).

Chris Sawyer is a Scottish video game developer who is best known for designing and programming Transport Tycoon and the RollerCoaster Tycoon series.

David "Dave" Theurer is a game designer.

David John Braben, OBE (born 2 January 1964), is a British game developer, game designer and CEO of Frontier Developments plc, co-developer of Elite, a space trading computer game, published in 1984.

Tommy Refenes is an American video game designer and programmer, best known for his work on the game Super Meat Boy, a platformer he co-created with developer Edmund McMillen.

Sidney K. "Sid" Meier (born February 24, 1954) is a Canadian programmer, designer, and producer of several popular strategy video games and simulation video games, most notably the Civilization series.

Michael Abrash is a programmer and technical writer specializing in code optimization and 80x86 assembly language, a reputation cemented by his 1990 book Zen of Assembly Language Volume 1: Knowledge and a monthly column in Dr.

Bill Roper (born 27 March 1965, in Concord, California) is Vice President/GM at Disney Interactive Studios since June 2011.

Michael Austin Stackpole (born November 27, 1957) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books.

Walter Bright is an American computer programmer and the creator of the D programming language.

William Ralph "Will" Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the former game development company Maxis, and then part of Electronic Arts (EA).

IceFrog is a video game designer, best known for being the longest-serving designer of Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a custom Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos mod - and as the lead designer for the stand-alone sequel, Dota 2.

Brian Fargo (born December 15, 1962) is an American video game designer, producer, programmer and executive, and founder of Interplay Entertainment and inXile Entertainment.

Laralyn McWilliams (born February 25, 1965 in Vicenza, Italy) is an American game designer and video game producer.

Lee Sheldon is an American game designer, book author, television producer and scriptwriter.

Shivam Sai Gupta (born December 22, 1995) is a visual effect producer, public speaker, and game developer.

Samson Mow (born in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian Chinese video game developer and founder and CEO of Pixelmatic, a game development company established in 2011 and based in Vancouver and Shanghai.

Paul Wedgwood (born June 1970) is one of three founders of video game developer Splash Damage and currently the CEO of the company.

Charles Steve Zembillas is an American video game art director, character designer, educator, author and concept artist from Burbank, California, founder of Animation Academy.

Jeff King (born February 1, 1969 in Heidelberg, Germany) is an American author, video game developer and businessman who is best known for his book The Home Distiller's Workbook - Your guide to making Moonshine, Whisky, Vodka, Rum and so much more!.

Anita Straker, OBE, CB is a British educationalist.

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Jory Prum (January 31, 1975 – April 22, 2016), also known as Jory K.

Jay Phillip Obernolte (born 1970) is an American politician currently serving in the California State Assembly in 2014.

Bernard Louis "Bernie" De Koven or DeKoven (born October 15, 1941) is an American game designer, author, lecturer and fun theorist.

Kathy Sierra (born 1957) is an American programming instructor and game developer.

Oded Sharon (born in Tel-aviv, Israel, April 10, 1977) is an Israeli game developer and CEO of Corbomite Games and Adventure Mob game development companies, and the head of the Israeli chapter of the International Game Developers Association.

Michael Todd (born 1987) is a Canadian independent video game programmer and designer.

David Perry (born April 4, 1967) is a Northern Irish video game developer and programmer.

Marcus Lindblom is an American video game developer known for his English localization of the 1995 video game EarthBound.

Bonnie Ross is an American video games developer and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Studios.

Night School Studio (sometimes known as Night School or NightSchool) is an American independent video game developer and publisher founded in 1 October 2014 by Sean Krankel and Adam Hines, and is based in Glendale, California.

Code Mystics is a video game developer specializing in the emulation and remastering of older video games for modern systems.

Jonathan Blow (born 1971) is an American indie game programmer and designer.

Terry Cavanagh is an Irish video game designer based in London, England.

Hipster Whale Pty Ltd is an Australian independent video game developer and publisher founded in 20 November 2014 by Andy Sum and Matt Hall, shortly before making the game Crossy Road.

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Andy Schatz is a video game designer known for hosting the Independent Games Festival awards ceremonies, and his contributions to independent video game development.

Daniel Remar is a Swedish game developer.

Xinghan Chen (simplified Chinese: 陈星汉; traditional Chinese: 陳星漢; pinyin: Chén Xīnghàn; born October 8, 1981), known professionally as Jenova Chen, is a Chinese video game designer.

Zachary Barth is an indie game developer who creates games under the banner Zachtronics Industries.

Jason Rohrer (born November 14, 1977) is an American computer programmer, writer, musician, and game designer.

Dean Herbert, also known as peppy, is a software developer and video game developer known for creating the rhythm game osu! and for creating the file hosting website and software puush.

Beamdog is a Canadian video game developer, publisher, and distributor founded by BioWare co-founder Trent Oster and BioWare lead programmer Cameron Tofer.

Marc Mencher (born 1961) is an American executive in the video game industry, who has written multiple articles and books about gaming careers, such as the 2003 book Get in the Game: Careers in the Game Industry.

Siobhan Reddy is a co-founder and studio director of Media Molecule, a video game development studio based in Guildford in the United Kingdom, most famous for their debut title LittleBigPlanet.

Christine Love is a Canadian independent visual novelist best known for her three original works: Digital: A Love Story, Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story, and Analogue: A Hate Story.

Clement Hadrian Chambers is a British entrepreneur, author and journalist, known for his involvement in ADVFN (LSE:AFN), formerly known as the Advanced Financial Network, and for his financial and trading books and Jim Evans thriller series.

Tony Goodman is an American video game executive and entrepreneur.

Alex Evans is a UK-based video games developer.

Danny Antonio Ledonne (born January 18, 1982) is an American film director and former video game developer.

Jason Nelson is a digital and hypermedia poet and artist.

Jeff Hickman is a video game designer, producer and customer support specialist currently working as the executive producer of live services for BioWare.

Samantha Youssef is a Canadian character animator and animation director.