List of video game designers
This is a list of video game designers, past and present, in alphabetical order. The people in this list designed either computer games, console games, arcade games or some other type of video game.
- Richard Bartle, co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon.
- Chris Beatrice: Caesar and Lords of the Realm.
- Marc Blank: Co-designer of Zork, co-founder of Infocom
- Cliff Bleszinski: member of design team on Unreal.
- Bill Budge: Raster Blaster and Pinball Construction Set
- Dani Bunten (deceased): M.U.L.E., The Seven Cities of Gold, Modem Wars
- Chris Crawford: Eastern Front (1941), Balance of Power, founder of the Computer Game Developers' Conference, pioneer of Interactive storytelling
- Don Daglow: designer of Dungeon, Intellivision Utopia, Earl Weaver Baseball, Neverwinter Nights
- Brian Fargo: founder of Interplay Entertainment, InXile Entertainment and developer of Bard's Tale and Wasteland
- Kelton Flinn: designer of Air Warrior and many other pioneering online games, co-founder of Kesmai
- Richard Garriott (a.k.a. Lord British): creator of the Ultima series and founder of Origin Systems
- Julian Gollop, designer of Chaos, Laser Squad and X-COM: UFO Defense.
- Yuji Horii: Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger
- Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear Solid series, Snatcher and Policenauts.
- American McGee: American McGee's Alice
- Jordan Mechner: Prince of Persia series
- Sid Meier: Civilization series, Railroad Tycoon
- Jeff Minter: founder of Llamasoft.
- Shigeru Miyamoto: Donkey Kong, Mario, Legend of Zelda & others
- Peter Molyneux: Created Populous, Syndicate and Black and White, founded Bullfrog Software and Lionhead Studios
- Scott Orr: Designer of original version of Madden NFL, many other design credits
- Alexey Pajitnov: Tetris
- Brian Reynolds: Civilization II, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Rise of Nations
- John Romero: Doom and Quake level designer, Daikatana producer, co-founder of Id Software, Ion Storm and Monkeystone Games
- Hironobu Sakaguchi: Final Fantasy series and Chrono Trigger
- Tim Schafer, designer of Grim Fandango and Psychonauts.
- Warren Spector: System Shock, Thief series, Deus Ex
- Yu Suzuki, designer of many classics that became genres, such as Afterburner, Hang On, Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter series, F-355 Challenge and the Shenmue series.
- Toshiro Tsuchida: Front Mission series
- Jordan Weisman: Founder of FASA, co-creator of BattleTech and MechWarrior
- Roberta Williams: Designer of King's Quest and other series, pioneered graphic adventure game genre, co-founded Sierra Entertainment
- Will Wright: Game designer of SimCity series and The Sims series, co-founder of Maxis
- Gunpei Yokoi (deceased): inventor of handheld gaming, Metroid producer, Tetris Attack producer, Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu producer
See also: List of video game industry people