Who's your favorite game designer?

[black-magic]

I'm not talking about a developer, I'm talking about one specific person that you feel contributes most to the video games you love, or is at least the most recognizeable of the people working on it.

My favorite is Yoshifumi Hashimoto and Yasuhiro Wada, producer and creater respectively of the Harvest Moon/Rune Factory franchise.

 

[TheDuckbunny]

I guess Ron Gilbert or Tim Shafer? I feel kinda bad for not knowing alot of game designers.

 

[Yureina]

I guess Ron Gilbert or Tim Shafer? I feel kinda bad for not knowing alot of game designers.

Same. I don't really know game devs much.

Sid Meier, maybe?

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Mr Miyamoto, Kojima, Sakaguchi, Kamiya, Ueda

Other roles incude, Nomura, Amano, Hamazu, Uematsu, Hayter (shh, he makes Metal Gear what it is), Gregson-Williams, probably more I've forgotten

 

[StriderShinryu]

I quite enjoy most of what Itagaki has done in the past and look forward to what his new studio will put forward. Most of his games certainly haven't been flawless, but they have a unique feel and energy that resonates with me.

 

[Rauten]

Ooff, too many to list I think... Yuji Naka (Sonic), Yu Suzuki (Shenmue) and Gabe Newell (I don't really need to explain this one, do I?) have probably the ones most influential for me, but there are lots more that I think are great. Suda51, Sid Meier (although I think he's a bit too high on his pedestal), Ragnar Tornquist, Hideki Kamiya, Hironobu Sakaguchi... the list could just go on and on.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Shigeru-san, Hideo Kojima all the gentlemen at Valve.

 

[leotime0]

Hideo fucking Kojima.

 

[Jennacide]

Warren Spector(Thief, Deus Ex, System Shock 1) and Yasumi Matsuno(Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, FF12).

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Tim Cain, Chris Avellone, Warren Spector, Sid Meier and the flawed, fractured, completely random and batshit genius of Peter Molyneux (for his pre Black and White titles only, the new titles can die of rectal cancer).


... and for a REAL blast from the past JEFF fucking MINTER

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Kojima

He is made of win and silliness.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Mr. Miyamoto

 

[swordless]

Miyamoto, Molyneaux, Wright and Meier all spring to mind as I have multiple games that I love made by all of them.

To be honest though I haven't always paid that much attention to who it is that makes a lot of the games that I buy so there are probly plenty of others that have made several games I have liked witout me knowing.

 

[ShrapnelHound]

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