Who was your first celebrity developer?

[shuraiya]

twesterm said:

shuraiya said:

twesterm said:

shuraiya said:

For me, it's Kojima. You specifically requested developer, that's why Kojima takes the spot. My first video game related celebrities however, are Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda. Musical composition gets my attention more that any other aspect in a video game, besides story.

He's still a developer, it's for that reason I specifically said developer and not designer, programmer, etc. 

@Darth- ::blush:: not a celebrity :-p

I've never actually considered composers as developers. After all, it's possible for many of them to work without ever even laying eyes on the game in question. Referring to them as developers would technically include someone like Harry Gregson-williams simply because he composed for MGS.

They created content to the game, why wouldn't they be one of the developers?  Even if the composer never played the game, music is still as big of a part as something like art direction yet you would still count the art director as a developer.

I consider a developer to be someone heavily involved in the development process; the ones responsible for taking several elements and combining them into one cohesive whole. Composers are simply people commissioned to construct a given component; the music does not necessarily even have to be created specifically for the game. I just have a hard time seeing them as developers.