- Greg Costikyan
Greg Costikyan, also known as Designer X, is an American game designer and science fiction writer. Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming, including hex-based wargames, role-playing games, boardgames, card games, computer games, online games and mobile games. Several of his games have won Origins Awards.
- Cordwainer Bird
Harlan Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of The Outer Limits and Star Trek, edited the multiple award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions and served as creative consultant to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.
- Tim Schafer
Tim Schafer (born July 26, 1967) is an American computer game designer of Norwegian descent. He founded Double Fine Productions in January 2000, having spent over a decade at LucasArts. Most recently, Schafer designed a game for the Xbox, PS2, and PC called "Psychonauts". Schafer is best known in the video game industry for his story-telling and comedy writing abilities.
- Brad Wardell
Bradley R. Wardell (born 24 June, 1971 in Texas), commonly known as Brad Wardell, is an American residing in Michigan. He is the founder and current President and CEO of Stardock, a software development and computer games company. Brad graduated in 1994 from Western Michigan University with a degree in Electronic Engineering. His first notable achievement was the design and implementation of "Galactic Civilizations" for OS/2, …
- Sean Bean
Seán Mark Bean is an English film and stage actor. Bean has also acted in a number of television productions as well as performing voice work for computer games and television adverts. As an actor, he adopted the Irish/Scottish spelling "Seán" of his first name. Bean is best known for his role as Boromir, in the The Lord of the Rings films and as James Bond adversary Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye.
- Kieron Gillen
Kieron Gillen is a British computer games and music journalist, as well as a comic book author, who has worked for a lengthy list of publications, including "PC Gamer UK", "The Escapist", "Amiga Power", "Wired", "The Guardian" newspaper (where he wrote the first long-form videogame review in a mainstream newspaper), "Edge", "Games Developer", "Develop", "MCV", "Gamesmaster" and "PC Format", …
- H. R. Giger
Hans Ruedi Giger (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer best known for his design work on the film "Alien".
- Marc Blank
Marc Blank is an American computer game designer and game programmer. He is best known as part of the team that created one of the first hit text adventure computer games, "Zork". Blank first encountered Don Woods and Will Crowther's "Adventure" game while he was studying at MIT in the mid-1970s, where the game was played on mainframe computers. Blank was frustrated by the computer's tiny vocabulary; when it parsed user inputs very few words were recognized.
- Jason della Rocca
Jason is the executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), a professional society committed to advancing the careers and enhancing the lives of game developers. Jason and the IGDA focus on connecting developers with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community -- such as quality of life, creative freedoms, workforce diversity and credit standards.
- Richard Evans
Richard Evans is an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher working in computer games. He designed and implemented the AI for "Black & White", for which he received a number of awards, including the Game Developer Choice Award for Programming Excellence. For this game he combined a number of different AI techniques from apparently competing AI paradigms, including perceptron training, and decision tree learning.
- Raymond Benson
Raymond Benson (born September 6, 1955) is an American author best known for being the last official author of the adult James Bond novels. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High School in 1973. In primary school Benson took an interest in the piano which would later in his life develop into an interest in composing music.
- John Tynes
John Tynes (born 1971) is a writer best known for his work on role-playing games such as Unknown Armies and Puppetland, and for his company Tynes Cowan Corporation, which under its imprint Pagan Publishing produces third-party books for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game under license from Chaosium as well as fiction and non-fiction books under its imprint Armitage House.
- Tim Larkin
Tim Larkin is the audio director for Cyan Worlds, a software company that produced the Myst series of computer games. While working at Cyan, Tim worked as a sound designer for Riven, and as a composer for realMyst, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and Myst V: End of Ages. He has twelve years experience in the game audio industry. He started in the game industry working as a composer/sound designer for Broderbund.
- Mark Healey
Mark Healey is a UK based computer games developer. Healey was formerly an artist at Lionhead Studios who developed "Rag Doll Kung Fu" independently. He is the founder of Media Molecule, a computer games studio currently working on its first project, a cooperative platformer for the Playstation 3 entitled "LittleBigPlanet".
- Richard Dansky
Richard "Rich" Dansky is a writer and a designer of both computer games and roleplaying games. He is a former game developer for White Wolf, Inc. where he worked as developer on the Wraith: The Oblivion, Mind's Eye Theatre, Vampire: The Dark Ages, Kindred of the East and Orpheus game lines.
- David Mullich
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.
- Alan Emrich
Alan Emrich is now best-known as a writer about and designer of computer games. In 2001 he received the The Blomgren / Hamilton Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement from ConsimWorld.COM.
- Grey Dog Software
Grey Dog Software is a computer games development company, based in Phoenix, Arizona, and specializing in sports text simulations. Notable games released by Grey Dog include the Total Extreme Warfare series and the Wrestling Spirit series.
- Jon Radoff
Jon Radoff (b. September 17, 1972) is an American entrepreneur and game designer. His work has focused on online communities, Internet media and computer games. Radoff was a co-founder of NovaLink, an early internet service provider. In 1991, while at NovaLink, he created "Legends of Future Past", one of the first commercial MMORPGs. Another early game he wrote was "Space Empire Elite", a bulletin board system strategy game for Atari ST BBSes.
- Siku
Siku is the pseudonym of British/Nigerian artist and writer Ajibayo Akinsiku, whose fully-painted work (particularly on "Judge Dredd" and the "Pan-African Judges" stories) has been appearing in "2000 AD" and the "Judge Dredd Megazine" since 1991. Siku also works in the computer games industry and as a freelance illustrator and artist. His latest work is "The Manga Bible", an adaption of the Holy Bible into manga format.
- Walter Bright
Walter Bright is a computer programmer known for being the main developer of the first native C++ compiler, Zortech C++ (later to become Symantec C++, now Digital Mars C++). Before the C++ compiler he developed the Datalight C compiler, also sold as Zorland C and later Zortech C. He is also known for Empire, one of the first strategy computer games, written in 1971-1977 on a PDP-10. His current main project is the design of the D programming language.
- Brian Sharp
Brian Sharp is a computer game programmer. He attended Dartmouth College and came close to graduating before taking a job at Ion Storm Austin to work on the Deus Ex and Thief computer games there. A published writer for Game Developer Magazine, Sharp has contributed articles on higher-order surface representations, including Bézier patches, Subdivision Surfaces, and Implicit Surfaces. In addition, he is a regular presenter at the Game Developers Conference, …
- Steve Perrin
Steve Perrin is a game designer and technical writer/editor. Perrin is probably best known for creating the role-playing game "RuneQuest" for Chaosium. While at Chaosium he also created "Stormbringer", "Worlds of Wonder", "Elfquest", and "Superworld", and contributed to "Thieves' World" and "Call of Cthulhu". He worked at Interplay Productions, Maxis, and Spectrum Holobyte, doing game design, playtesting, …
- Sunny Garcia
Sunny Garcia (b January 14, 1970) is a famous American surfer from Maile, Oahu. He was the 2000 world surfing champion and several computer games use his name. Sunny discovered his talent for surfing at the young age of seven when his friends literally threw him into the ocean. Within a few minutes he was already riding waves to the shore. At the age of five, Sunny was suspended from kindergarten for brawling.
- Bob Mills
Bob Mills (born 1957) is a British comedian, notable for his appearances in cult TV series such as "In Bed with MeDinner" and "The Show", the latter an attempt to do a non-fictional British version of "The Larry Sanders Show". In the 1990s, he also hosted the daytime quiz show "Win, Lose Or Draw" on ITV, and the computer games programme "Games World" on Sky One.
- Sean A. Moore
Sean A. Moore (1965-1998) of Boulder, Colorado, was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, and a computer programmer and systems operations specialist employed as a controller for Aspen Systems, Inc. of Wheat Ridge. He also played and wrote computer games, designed board games, and enjoyed fencing. Moore was the author of several books for Tor Books, …
- Celal Kandemiroglu
Celal Kandemiroglu is a graphic artist in the German computer games industry. He was born in 1953 in Turkey and made his first comic when he was five years old. After graduating at the fine arts academy in Istanbul he started to offer his comics to the Bastei-Verlag in Germany around 1978. Since 1985 he has created many video and movie covers until he became a cover artist for the German computer game industry in 1988.
- Oded Sharon
Oded Sharon (born in Tel-aviv, Israel April 10, 1977 ) is an Israeli game producer and head of Corbomite Games. Worked on a few computer games, of which the largest scale game is Ballerium which he made a lot of its content while working for Majorem. Oded is a management member of Starbase 972, and voluntary organizer in Icon (Israeli Sci-fi Convention), and Olamot, Israeli science fiction conventions. In his youth, produced, directed, and edited the show Eich Laharos Shaa, …
- Harry S. Robins
Harry S. Robins, known as "Hal", is a voice artist and screen writer. Robins is best known for his vocal work in the "Half-Life" series of computer games. He is also a prominent member of the Church of the SubGenius as Dr. Howland Owll. In that persona he voiced the narrator in "Arise! The SubGenius Video" and made brief appearances in "Grass".
- Mark Surfas
Mark Surfas founded GameSpy Industries, a network of computer and video game Web sites and online video game-related services. He was the majority owner, CEO and Chairman of the board until its acquisition by IGN Entertainment in March of 2004. Mark is now an investor and board member of numerous technology startups, as well as President and co-founder of California Stem Cell.
- Richard vander Wende
Richard Vander Wende is an American visual designer and video game designer best known for his work on the 1992 Disney film Aladdin and the Cyan Worlds computer game Riven. Vander Wende's career began at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), working on projects such as the films "Willow" and "Innerspace" as a concept designer. Because of a fondness for the old Disney films, Vander Wende took a position at Walt Disney Feature Animation.
- Jason Brashill
Jason Brashill is a British comic book artist. He has worked for 2000AD, mainly on cover work and the lead strip "Judge Dredd", as well as some British small press comics like The End Is Nigh. He has also produced comic work for Spaced. Currently he resides near Seattle, where he works in the computer games industry for Valve, the creators of Half-Life.
- Mike Milo
Mike Milo is an animator, director, writer and producer in the television and computer games industries. He began in 1990 animating commercials for Broadcast Arts in New York City. Subsequently he worked for Sierra On-Line and Warner Bros., again as an animator working on such hits as Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Tazmania, Pinky and the Brain and Histeria. His first directing job was at Film Roman where he was the Assistant Director on Gracie Film’s The Critic.
- Rikdo Koshi
is a Japanese mangaka, his most notable work being "Excel Saga". Rikdo graduated from Kyushu Sangyo University and lives in Dazaifu, Fukuoka. He displays some of the signs associated with otaku, insofar as he collects kitsch, likes playing computer games, and drawing breasts.
- Tom Hilpert
The Rev. Theodore "Tom" Hilpert (born 1969) is a U.S.-born author, pastor and corporate president. He is the author of "Galedor", a science fiction novel published in the United States in 2001, and "Surviving Seminary", a non-fiction guide for budding pastors and theologians. He has written for several magazines, and his non-fiction work has been read on at least four different continents. He is currently the Creative Director of Rebel Planet Creations, …
- Stephen B. Streater
Stephen Streater started his public company career as a founder of Eidos plc where his positions included managing director and director of video technology. Stephen founded and successfully floated Forbidden Technologies plc where his combination of expertise in technology, business and finance has been instrumental in the creation of this exciting and technically vibrant company.
- Greg Frame
Greg Frame (born 1967 in Dover, Ohio) is the co-founder and current Chief Gaming Officer of Kaneva, Inc. and a founder and former CTO of Indigo Olive Software, Inc. Frame formed Indigo Olive Software in the late 1990's under the name BeverageOne with his brother Rob Frame to automate the sales forces of the wine and spirits industry. In recent years Frame has become one of Georgia’s most visible game professionals, advising local Colleges including the Georgia Institute of Technology, …
- Daniel Owsen
Dan Owsen is an employee of Nintendo of America who is probably most well-known for his Ask Dan column that used to appear on Nintendo's official website. He is also famous for his work in the translation of "The Legend of Zelda series". His voice can be heard at the beginning of "Super Metroid" - "The last Metroid is in captivity... the galaxy is at peace." Dan Owsen has worked at NOA since 1989 in a variety of departments.
- Elizabeth Whitener
I am the reflector of light. Nothing stands in the way of the light, even when carried by a child of darkness. To some, an influential punk promoter in the 80’s. Yet my past does not define me. Technical degree-Sonic Arts/Sound Design, under Fred Catero. Consulted for Capitol Records. Organized musical festivals & events, successful Entertainment Producer & Corporate Event Coordinator. I live with my 15 yro son in Austin and work as a Technical, and Gaming Industry Recruiter.
- Vera Newman
Nest Egg Studios Inc is an innovative independent start-up multimedia entertainment studio with a mission to revolutionize the "interactive online media” markets by; creating fun, exhilarating, sophisticated games and online entertainment for the adults with an emphasis on the female consumer!