game industry heroes... who are yours?

Helix

I got to spend 20 minutes talking to ed boon today and i was like a giggly schoolgirl. so it got me thinking, who are your gaming heroes and what would you ask them if you had chance to speak to them?

Kare Bear

George Broussard.

Kidchameleon

Helix wrote: »

I got to spend 20 minutes talking to ed boon today and i was like a giggly schoolgirl. so it got me thinking, who are your gaming heroes and what would you ask them if you had chance to speak to them?

Howd U manage that?? Boon is a legend.

I suppose Miyamoto or David Perry would have me giggling aswell

Helix

he was demoing mk vita at an event i was at, so I grabbed a chat. genuinely a gent

dreamers75

Stamper brothers.



Should have slapped Boon and told him to stop, the horse is long dead stop beating it.

Jaafa

Tim Schafer. How much did he have to smoke before he developed psychonauts?

ShadowHearth

my gaming industry hero is [insert all names of CD project RED here]!

cloud493

Think it'd have to be Miaymoto, or the fella who made pokemon, his name slips my mind.

krudler

Robert Bowling




ha, just kidding, he needs a kick in the stones

johnny_ultimate

I've always had respect for game developers who have such a compellingly unique vision that their names alone are a selling point. Schafer, Ancel, Miyamoto, Mizuguchi...

And Jade Raymond. Always Jade Raymond.

Star Lord

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Schafer, Ancel, Miyamoto

And Jade Raymond. Always Jade Raymond.

^ Those 3 + Jade...

And Ron Gilbert. Tell me the damn secret! Or show me the plans for Monkey Island 3 as it was meant to be!

K.O.Kiki

Michel Ancel, Tim Schafer, Jordan Mechner, Suda Goichi, Shinji Mikami, Hideki Kamiya, Kenta Cho, ZUN, whoever designed the level layouts in Donkey Kong Country 2, and the guys from French Bread.

Captain Morgan Freeman

Jack Thompson

richymcdermott

The entire company of sega so trying to convince them to bring out dreamcast 2 ,shemue 3 and streets of rage

Jade raymond and kojima also

:pac:

johnny_ultimate

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Suda Goichi, Shinji Mikami, Hideki Kamiya

Also: these :pac:

Can the entirety of Platinum Games count, actually? Because they're reliably awesome.

Kidchameleon

Oh I forgot, Ken Silverman

hooradiation

Anyone who decides to work in the games industry.

The vast majority will be overworked, underpaid and spend their time working on unambitious titles with crazy deadlines for feckless publishers. On top of that treated like they're lazy, shiftless greedy shysters by the spoilt children that constitute the majority of 'gamers'.

So here's to those crazy bastards that forsake money and health so that people have something to complain about on the internet!

On the plus side the average time someone spends in the games industry is about five years at which point I can only assume they finally have had enough of the bullshit and getting a job that sucks slightly less.

SirLemonhead

Matt Saettler who was the project manager at Monolith for Blood. Very generous and helpful bloke when I bombarded him with emails regarding said game.

Magill

Solid snake.

Star Lord

Forgot to mention: Suda 51!

Some truly mad games. Particularly loved Killer 7!

Bubblefett

Cliffy B
(also helps that he's a ride)

Helix

i met jade redmond a while back at an event

i didnt know who she was, and paid her little heed because she was a girl :P

Gingervitis

Ken Levine (System Shock, Bioshock, NOT Bioshock 2, and Bioshock Infinite).
Definitely one of the smarter developers I know, and not afraid to make some insightful observations and challenge the player.

gizmo

Off the top of my head?

From a design perspective...

Warren Spector (Wing Commanders, Ultimas, System Shock, Thief & Deus Ex)
Shigeru Miyamoto (duh)
Patrice Désilets (not only Creative Director on the early Assassins Creed series but also Prince of Persia: Sands of Time)
Peter Molyneux (circa 1997 )

From a code perspective...

John Carmack (iD)
Tim Sweeney (Unreal)
Ken Silverman (Build)
Michael Abrash (****ing graphics genius in general)

RogerWilco1982

Nobody else wants to meet Gabe Newell?!

The man is so articulate I could listen to him speak all day.

Temptamperu

RogerWilco1982 wrote: »

Nobody else wants to meet Gabe Newell?!

The man is so articulate I could listen to him speak all day.

Most people want his hide to be fair

Kinski

Helix wrote: »

i met jade redmond a while back at an event

i didnt know who she was, and paid her little heed because she was a girl :P

Jade Raymond. Goddam, she's gorgeous!!! What could possibly have been more attention-grabbing than her?:p

Miyamoto probably. Don't think it would be a very interesting conversation: "I love your games." "Ok, thanks." The end. Not even sure if he speaks Engrish.

super_furry

I'd love to sit down and have a few pints with Trip Hawkins. I mean he's the bloke the founded Electronic Arts, then left them to found 3D0 and create the 3D0 console.

He's bounced backed from that to form Digital Chocolate and in between found time to design his own Major course in Harvard.

mewso

The programmer side of me would say Carmack and Sweeney but the gamer in me would say Tom Hall. Ahh Anachronox. The memories.

SirLemonhead

ah sure feck it, props to Romero too. Doom and Doom 2 are fantastic games. He had some brilliant ideas back in the day. He's a pretty sound bloke too

K.O.Kiki

I actually would like to speak to Gabe Newell... AFTER he releases Half-Life 3! :mad:

Also, all of Team Ico.

gizmo

SirLemonhead wrote: »

ah sure feck it, props to Romero too. Doom and Doom 2 are fantastic games. He had some brilliant ideas back in the day. He's a pretty sound bloke too

Careful, he might try and make you his bitch. :pac:

Burning Eclipse

Schafer. That is all :cool:

Honestly, it would be really easy to write a really long list here, but if I had to pick one, Tim Schafer is the guy.

Sakaguchi would be 2

RobbingBandit

The guys at Ghostlight for releasing so many RPGs that would never have seen the light of day over here.

Professey Chin

Ken Kutaragi
All hail the playstation!!

Krusader

Bobby Kotick

trollollollolloll

Dozen Wicked Words

Julian Gollop, that is all.

goalscoringhero

Dino Dini.

Star Lord

Another addition to my list that I almost forgot, The Bitmap Brothers
(I know it's a company as opposed to a person/people, but they made a few great games back in the day. Used to love GODS.

sarumite

Sid Meier probably. Civ and alpha centuri were probably two games that sucked up more of my life than any other.

corcaigh07

yu suzuki, even if it was just to thank him for the amazing masterpieces that were Shenmue 1 and 2. There will never be a game I want more than Shenmue 3.