Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including "Maniac Mansion" and the first two "Monkey Island" games. Gilbert was also co-founder of Humongous Entertainment and its sister company Cavedog Entertainment. His games are generally focused on interactive storytelling.

Scott Adams (born July 10, 1952) is the co-founder, with wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers. Born in Miami, Florida, Adams was the first person known to create an adventure-style game for personal computers, in 1978 (on a 16KB Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, written in the BASIC programming language). These early text adventure games use a minimal parser, recognizing 2-word commands of the form VERB NOUN.

Steve Purcell is an American illustrator and writer best known as the creator of comic book characters Sam & Max, of the Freelance Police - a dog and rabbit crime-fighting duo.

Roberta Heuer Williams (born February 16, 1953) is a computer game designer. She is perhaps most famous for her pioneering work in graphical adventure games, particularly the popular "King's Quest" series. In the eighties and nineties, Roberta and her husband, Ken Williams, were leading figures in the development of graphical adventure games. They founded the company On-Line Systems, which later became Sierra On-Line.

Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw is the British-born author of adventure games created using Adventure Game Studio software. He also writes articles for Australia's Hyper magazine, a major games publication. He uses his website "Fully Ramblomatic" as an outlet for his own work, including weekly dark humour articles, essays, the novels "Articulate Jim: The Search for Something" and "Fog Juice", …

Clifford Bleszinski (born February 12, 1975), also known as CliffyB, is the design director for the game development company Epic Games in Cary, North Carolina. He is most famous for his continuing hand in the development of the Unreal franchise and the Gears of War franchise. He cites Shigeru Miyamoto as his biggest influence. In 2008, Bleszinski finished the production on Gears of War 2.

Don Woods (born April 30, 1954) is an American perennial hacker and computer programmer. Woods teamed with James M. Lyon while both were attending Princeton in 1972 to produce the unprecedented, excursive INTERCAL programming language. Later, he worked at the Stanford AI lab (SAIL), where among other things he became the SAIL contact for, and a contributor to, the Jargon File.

Ken Williams (born October 1954) is an American game programmer and co-founder with his wife Roberta Williams of On-Line Systems, which later became Sierra On-Line. Roberta and Ken married at the age of 19 and have two children. The couple have been leading figures in the development of graphical adventure games. Their contribution to gaming was partially chronicled in the book "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution".

Tim Anderson is a computer programmer and helped create the adventure game "Zork", one of the first works of interactive fiction and an early descendant of ADVENT (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure). The first version of "Zork" was written in 1977–1979 in the MDL programming language on a DEC PDP-10 computer by Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling.

Michael Stemmle is a computer game writer, designer and director (sometimes designated as a "project leader" in LucasArts parlance) who co-created some of LucasArts' adventure games in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was also an uncredited script doctor on some non-adventure games. He joined LucasArts after graduating from Stanford University, …

David: I was just about to accept a job offer from a large game publisher when I noticed a game producer want ad in the Los Angeles Times, from a small company called ISG. I decided to check them out, and learned that they wanted to develop games for CD-I. I was somewhat familiar with the platform, having been invited to demonstrations at PIMA when I worked at Disney, but wasn't very impressed with it as a game machine.

Lori Ann Cole is a game designer, often in cooperation with her husband, professional game programmer Corey Cole. Their team was later named "Transolar Games". Cole's varied background includes elementary education, film animation, and writing. She is a fanatic RPG player, who is uninterested in adventure games. Because of her husband's involvement in Sierra On-line, she decided to create a hybrid role-playing/adventure game. The result was Quest for Glory series.

Stuart Smith is an American computer game designer and programmer. He is best known for his adventure games, and was a pioneer in the development of graphical adventures in the early 1980s. He was also a unique designer for his time because of his desire to faithfully build history and mythology into his games. This paralleled the interests of his contemporaries like Bruce Shelley and Sid Meier, and foreshadowed some of their later hits.

Sarah Hamilton is an American actress who has done voice work for many national commercial campaigns including Chapstick, CoverGirl-brand cosmetics, V-8 Splash, and Sony-brand electronics. Within the videogame industry, Hamilton is best known for her voice work as April Ryan in the best-selling and critically acclaimed adventure game "The Longest Journey", and its sequel, "Dreamfall". She also serves as the Executive Director and Treasurer for Statement Arts, …

Barrington Pheloung is an Australian composer, now living in England. Best known for the theme and incidental music to the "Inspector Morse" television series, he has also composed for dance companies, such as the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and for events, including the opening night of the Millennium Dome. His film work includes "Hillary and Jackie" for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and "Touching Wild Horses".

Peter Tuddenham was a British actor who provided the voices of "Zen", "Orac" and "Slave", computers on the science fiction TV show "Blake's 7". He also provided voices for the "Doctor Who" stories "The Ark in Space", "The Masque of Mandragora" and "Time and the Rani". Later he returned to tape the audio drama spin-offs "Occam's Razor" and "Death's Head".