Video Game Developer

🇺🇸John D. Carmack

Technology

b. 1970

"It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies."

🇯🇵Shigeru Miyamoto

Entertainment

b. 1952

"A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once."

🇯🇵Tomonobu Itagaki

1967–2025

"I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death."

🇨🇦Nicky Case

Philosophy

b. 1994

"No medium is particularly better than any other medium for tackling pressing social issues. But, yeah, it really depends on what options I can do. Games happen to be the medium I'm most familiar with."

🇺🇸Richard Garriott

Business

b. 1961

"Stealing is OK as long as it's done well."

🇯🇵Keiji Inafune

Literature

b. 1965

"Personally when I looked around all the different games at the TGS floor, I said "Man, Japan is over. We're done. Our game industry is finished."