Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (born Garriott; born July 4, 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur, and private astronaut. Garriott is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott. He began his career as a game designer and programmer and now works in many areas of computer game development.
Lorne Lanning is an American game designer, director, writer, and voice actor. He is also a co-founder and president of the video game company Oddworld Inhabitants. He is best known for creating the Oddworld series, which includes the games Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus, Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty!, and Oddworld: Soulstorm.
Warren Evan Spector was born on October 2, 1955. He is an American game designer, director, writer, producer, and production designer. He is known for creating immersive simulation games that allow players to make many choices about how to progress.
Paul Neurath is a video game designer and creative director. He started two companies, Blue Sky Productions (which later became Looking Glass Studios) and Floodgate Entertainment. He worked as the creative director at Zynga Boston.
Tim Willits was the former studio director, co-owner, and level designer of id Software. Starting in August 2019, Willits became the chief creative officer at Saber Interactive. He became a director at 3D Realms after Saber Interactive acquired the company.
American McGee is an American video game designer. He is most famous for designing the game American McGee’s Alice, its follow-up game Alice: Madness Returns, and for working on many video games created by id Software.
Carl Sanford Joslyn “Sandy” Petersen was born on September 16, 1955. He is an American game designer who worked at Chaosium, helping create the game RuneQuest and developing the well-known and influential horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu. Later, he joined id Software and worked on the Doom game series and Quake.
Tom Hall is an American video game designer most famous for co-founding id Software. He worked on famous games such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Commander Keen. He also co-founded Ion Storm with his friend and colleague, John Romero.
John D. Carmack II (born August 21, 1970) is an American computer programmer and video game developer. He co-founded the video game company id Software.
Alfonso John Romero was born on October 28, 1967. He is an American and Irish video game developer. He helped start id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Doom II (1994), Hexen (1995), and Quake (1996).