Game Designers
9 profiles
Technology
John Romero
Game designer who co-created Doom and Quake at id Software
Born 1967
Technology
Yuji Naka
Programmer who co-created Sonic the Hedgehog at Sega
Born 1965
Technology
Will Wright
Game designer who created SimCity and The Sims
Born 1960
Technology
Sid Meier
Creator of the Civilization strategy-game series
Born 1954
Technology
Shigeru Miyamoto
Nintendo designer who created Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong
Born 1952
Technology
Markus Persson
Swedish creator of Minecraft, the best-selling video game in history
Born 1979
Film & TV
Hideo Kojima
Japanese game creator of Metal Gear and Death Stranding
Born 1963
Gunpei Yokoi
Nintendo inventor of the Game Boy and Game & Watch
1941 – 1997
Science
Demis Hassabis
Co-founder of DeepMind and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold
Born 1976