Video Game Director

🇺🇸John D. Carmack

Technology

b. 1970

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

🇯🇵Naoto Ohshima

Art

b. 1964

"What I really wanted to do was just have this sonic boom, with a flash, and have the level change on you instantly."

🇺🇸John Romero

Psychology

b. 1967

"John Romero's About to Make You His Bitch."

🇯🇵Tomonobu Itagaki

1967–2025

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

🇺🇸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."

🇯🇵Hirokazu Yasuhara

b. 1965

"I shrink it down by myself, actually. It's up to the schedule,so... If the artists or programmers say "no", then that's the answer. So it's kind of a mix. I always try to push a can-do attitude with them, you know?"