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Carl on 01 March 2011

Kojima.

I remember Googling the shit out of everything MGS around the time of MGS3's release.

He came up, a lot, and I squeeled, a lot.



                            

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mibuokami on 01 March 2011

Sid for sure, he was the only guy that I could remember that actually put his name on a title waaaay back when games were still not really mainstream.




shuraiya on 01 March 2011
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.



iasta on 01 March 2011

David Perry. For his CPC games (Trantor,...)

As other works he works on Aladdin on Megadrive.

He is the first game creator i remember the name and it was in the end of 80's



But we must first concentrate ourselves on the way to entertain people, for video games to live. Else, it's a world where sales representative will win, which has as effect to kill creativity. I want to say to the creators all around the world:"Courage, Dare!". Shigeru Miyamoto.

SnesTea on 01 March 2011

Eiji Aonouma. Because his name was all over the Wind Waker pre-release stuff. And I blamed him for "ruining" Zelda.



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okr on 01 March 2011

Sid & Ron

I bought these two games on the same day back in 1991:



mantlepiecek on 01 March 2011

Hideo Kojima. Because of MGS 4, I didn't know any celebrity developers until then.

Strange, isn't it? I did know sid meier but I never considered them as celebrity developers and the only guy that took my attention was this kojima god.

After that I saw him in the top 100 dev list somewhere and the first guy was Miyamoto. Kojima was 6th....I was like wtf? There's someone better? lol.



manuel on 01 March 2011

The first famous developer I knew by name was Shigeru Miyamoto.



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IllegalPaladin on 01 March 2011

Hmm, I'm not quite sure.

Hideo Kojima could be it, but I don't think I really knew who he was till after Metal Gear Solid 2.

Actually, I think Valve beats out Kojima. I was really into following Gabe's presentations for the Source engine and the other people at Valve when they talked about Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike, ect.



theprof00 on 01 March 2011

chris and tim stamper, the gods of Rare N64 games.