Pete Cooke (born 1956) is a British computer games programmer, best known for his work published in the 1980s for the ZX Spectrum.
His software often used a point and click GUI. As most Spectrum users did not own a mouse the pointer was manipulated by keyboard or joystick.
Cooke's game Tau Ceti featured a form of solid 3D graphics and was set on a planet with day and night cycles with dynamically drawn shadows. Micronaut One, released in 1987, was set inside futuristic biocomputers with the player controlling a microscopic craft attempting to clear the tunnels of an insect-like life form called Scrim. This game used fast-moving 3D graphics and featured an enemy that went through a realistic, though sped up, lifecycle, beginning each level as eggs and progressing to larvae and eventually adult Scrim which would then lay more eggs.October 2024.
As well as these games, Cooke programmed the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions of Stunt Car Racer and also released a game for the 16-bit Amiga and Atari ST in 1990 called Tower of Babel.October 2024.
He worked at Leicester College as an IT lecturer and he teaches students how to create computer games using Microsoft XNA.He has created and released games for Apple Devices (iOS), including Zenfit and Everything Must Go.October 2024.