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Hideo Kojima
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Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima (小島 秀夫, born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer, screenwriter, director and producer. He was the director of Kojima Productions, which he founded in 2005, and a former vice president of Konami Digital...
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from 6 votes
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Ken Levine
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Ken Levine
Ken Levine is an American video game creator who directed and co-founded the studio Irrational Games. He is primarily known for his work on Thief: The Dark Project, System Shock 2, Bioshock, and Bioshock Infinite...
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from 1 vote
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Hironobu Sakaguchi
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Hironobu Sakaguchi
Hironobu Sakaguchi (坂口 博信 Sakaguchi Hironobu) (born November 25, 1962) is a Japanese video game designer, director, producer, and former film director. He is the creator of the Final Fantasy series, and has had a long career in ga...
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from 1 vote
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Sid Meier
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Sid Meier

(1954)
Sidney K. "Sid" Meier (born February 24, 1954) is a Canadian-American programmer, designer, and producer of several popular strategy video games and simulation video games, most notably the Civilization series. Meier co-founded Mi...
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from 3 votes
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Shigeru Miyamoto
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Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto (Japanese: 宮本 茂, born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer and producer. He is best known as the creator of some of the best-selling games of all time.
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from 3 votes
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Tomonobu Itagaki
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Tomonobu Itagaki
Tomonobu Itagaki (板垣 伴信 Itagaki Tomonobu, born April 1, 1967 in Tokyo) is a Japanese video game designer best known for creating the Dead or Alive series and also reviving the Ninja Gaiden franchise in 2004. Joining Tecmo in 1992,...
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from 3 votes
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Hidetaka Miyazaki
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Hidetaka Miyazaki
Hidetaka Miyazaki (宮崎 英高 Miyazaki Hidetaka, born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese video game director and current president of the video game development company, FromSoftware. Miyazaki originally joined From...
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Tim Schafer
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Tim Schafer
Timothy John Schafer (born July 26, 1967) is an American computer game designer. He founded Double Fine Productions in July 2000, after having spent over a decade at LucasArts. Schafer is best known as the designer of critically a...
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from 1 vote
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Will Wright
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Will Wright
William Ralph "Will" Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the former game development company Maxis, and then part of Electronic Arts (EA). In April 2009, he left EA to run "Stupid Fu...
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from 3 votes
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Cliff Bleszinski
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Cliff Bleszinski
Clifford Michael Bleszinski (born February 12, 1975), popularly known as CliffyB, is an American video game designer, former design director for the game development company Epic Games, and the founder of Boss Key Productions. He...
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from 2 votes
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Casey Hudson
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Casey Hudson
Casey Hudson is a Canadian video game developer. After obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering, Hudson began his career at the Canadian video game developer BioWare with credits as a technical artist on several games, includi...
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Peter Molyneux
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Peter Molyneux
Peter Douglas Molyneux, (born 5 May 1959) is an English video game designer and programmer. He created the god games Populous, Dungeon Keeper and Black & White as well as Theme Park, the Fable series and Curiosity – What's Inside...
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Chris Sawyer
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Chris Sawyer
Chris Sawyer is a Scottish video game developer who is best known for designing and programming Transport Tycoon and the RollerCoaster Tycoon series. He is the founder of 31X, a mobile game development company.
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Yoshio Sakamoto
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Yoshio Sakamoto
Yoshio Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 賀勇) (born July 23, 1959) is a Japanese video game designer working for Nintendo.
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Edmund McMillen
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Edmund McMillen

(1980)
Edmund McMillen (born March 2, 1980) is an American video game designer and artist.
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Chris Metzen
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Chris Metzen
Christopher Vincent Metzen (born November 22, 1973) is an American game designer, artist, voice actor and author known for his work creating the fictional universes and scripts for Blizzard Entertainment's three major award-winnin...
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Don Bluth
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Don Bluth
Donald Virgil "Don" Bluth (born September 13, 1937) is an American animator, film director, producer, writer, production designer, video game designer and animation instructor who is known for directing animated films, including T...
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