List of video game designers explained
This is a list of notable video game designers, past and present, in alphabetical order. The people in this list already have Wikipedia entries, and as such did significant design for notable computer games, console games, or arcade games. It does not include people in managerial roles (which often includes titles like "Producer" or "Development Director") or people who developed a concept without doing actual design work on the game itself (sometimes applicable to "co-creator" or "creator" roles). Just because a game is listed next to a designer's name does not imply that person was the sole designer. As with films, the credits for video games can be complicated.
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B
- Ralph Baer: "Father of Video Games," created Chase (1967), the first game played in a television set.
- Clive Barker: Undying, Jericho.
- Richard Bartle: co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon.
- Arnab Basu: Tomb Raider series and
- Chris Beatrice: Caesar, Lords of the Realm.
- Seamus Blackley: Flight Unlimited, Ultima Underworld, System Shock, and Trespasser
- Marc Blank: Zork
- Cliff Bleszinski: Gears of War, Gears of War 2, & LawBreakers
- Jonathan Blow: Braid, The Witness.
- Ed Boon: Mortal Kombat
- Brenda Brathwaite: Wizardry 8
- Bill Budge: Raster Blaster, Pinball Construction Set
- Danielle Bunten Berry: M.U.L.E., The Seven Cities of Gold
- Eric Barone: Stardew Valley
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- Tim Cain: Fallout, Arcanum
- Rich Carlson: Strange Adventures in Infinite Space,
- Charles Cecil: Broken Sword, Beyond a Steel Sky
- Mark Cerny: Marble Madness, Knack
- Eric Chahi: Another World, Heart of Darkness
- Trevor Chan: Capitalism, Capitalism II, Seven Kingdoms, , Bad Day L.A., Restaurant Empire
- Doug Church: Ultima Underworld, Ultima Underworld 2, System Shock
- Lori and Corey Cole: Quest for Glory series, Mixed-Up Fairy Tales, Castle of Dr. Brain
- Chris Crawford: Eastern Front, Balance of Power
- Scott Cawthon: Five Nights at Freddy's
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- Don Daglow: Dungeon, Intellivision Utopia, Earl Weaver Baseball, Neverwinter Nights
- Patrice Désilets: Assassin's Creed.
- Dino Dini: Kick Off, Kick Off 2, Player Manager, GOAL!, Dino Dini's Soccer
- Neil Druckmann: The Last of Us, The Last of Us Part II, ,
- Jakub Dvorsky: Samorost, Machinarium.
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- Dean Hall: DayZ
- Jon Hare: Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Wizball
- Stieg Hedlund: Diablo, Diablo II, StarCraft
- Amy Hennig: , , ,
- William Higinbotham: Tennis for Two
- Yuji Horii: Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger
- Todd Howard: Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3
- Casey Hudson: Mass Effect 1-3, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
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- Gregg Mayles: Banjo-Kazooie series, Viva Piñata
- American McGee: American McGee's Alice, Doom, Quake, American McGee's Grimm
- Edmund McMillen: Gish, Aether, Coil, Spewer, The Basement Collection, Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac, , The End Is Nigh, The Legend of Bum-bo
- Colin McComb: ,
- Brad McQuaid: EverQuest
- Jordan Mechner: Karateka, Prince of Persia
- Sid Meier: Civilization, Railroad Tycoon
- Steve Meretzky: Planetfall, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Leather Goddesses of Phobos
- Shinji Mikami: Resident Evil
- Robyn Miller, Rand Miller: Myst
- Jeff Minter: Tempest 2000, Gridrunner
- Shigeru Miyamoto: Donkey Kong, Mario, Legend of Zelda
- Hidetaka Miyazaki: Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi: Lumines, Rez, Space Channel 5
- Peter Molyneux: Populous, Syndicate, Black and White, Fable
- Brian Moriarty: Trinity, Loom
- David Mullich: The Prisoner, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
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- Alexey Pajitnov: Tetris
- Rob Pardo: World of Warcraft, Warcraft III
- David Perry: MDK, Earthworm Jim, Wild 9, Enter the Matrix
- Markus Persson: Minecraft
- Sandy Petersen: Lightspeed, Doom, Rise of Rome
- Simon Phipps: Rick Dangerous, ShadowMan, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Randy Pitchford: Borderlands, Brothers in Arms, Half-Life
- William Pugh
The Stanley Parable
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- Robert Topala :Geometry Dash
- Rick Raymer: Clue,
- Frédérick Raynal: Alone in the Dark, Little Big Adventure, Toy Commander
- Paul Reiche III: World Tour Golf, Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, Mail Order Monsters, the Star Control series, the Archon series, the Starflight series, and the Skylanders series
- Tommy Refenes: Super Meat Boy
- Brian Reynolds: Civilization II, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations and FrontierVille
- Chris Roberts: Wing Commander, Star Citizen
- Warren Robinett: Adventure, Rocky's Boots, & Robot Odyssey
- Scott Rogers: , Maximo vs. Army of Zin, God of War
- Ken Rolston: The Elder Scrolls (Morrowind and Oblivion)
- John Romero: Doom, Quake, Daikatana
- Jason Rubin: Crash Bandicoot, , , Crash Team Racing, , Jak II, Jak 3
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- Yoot Saito: Seaman, Odama, The Tower SP
- Hironobu Sakaguchi: Mistwalker, Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger
- Masahiro Sakurai: Kirby, Super Smash Bros.
- Kevin Saunders: ,
- Chris Sawyer: Transport Tycoon, RollerCoaster Tycoon.
- Josh Sawyer: Neverwinter Nights 2, Icewind Dale,
- Tim Schafer: Grim Fandango, Psychonauts
- Jesse Schell: Toontown Online, Pixie Hollow
- Glen Schofield: Dead Space
- Laura Shigihara: Rakuen
- Ryan Shwayder: EverQuest II
- Jeremiah Slaczka: Scribblenauts, Drawn to Life
- Doug Smith: Lode Runner
- Harvey Smith: Deux Ex, more
- Warren Spector: System Shock, Thief, Deus Ex
- Tim & Chris Stamper: Wizards & Warriors, Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country, &
- Bruce Straley: , , The Last of Us
- Goichi Suda: Killer7, No More Heroes
- Yu Suzuki: Afterburner, Hang-On, Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter, Ferrari F355 Challenge, Shenmue, Out Run
- Kim Swift: Portal
- David Sirlin: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
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- Robin Walker: Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2,
- Tony Warriner: Beneath A Steel Sky, Obsidian (1986 video game), Broken Sword1
- Christopher Weaver: Gridiron!
- Jordan Weisman: BattleTech, MechWarrior
- Richard Vander Wende: Riven
- Evan Wells: , , Crash Team Racing, , Jak II, Jak 3
- Bill Williams: Necromancer, Alley Cat, Mind Walker
- Roberta Williams: King's Quest
- Tim Willits: Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, , Doom 3
- Gary Winnick: Maniac Mansion, Thimbleweed Park
- Will Wright: SimCity, The Sims, Spore
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