I, Videogame features commentary from numerous game designers, developers and journalists.
James Wagner Au
Video Game Journalist
Au has worked as a game developer, lecturer and columnist for Wired, LA Times and a heap of other magazines and newspapers. In 2003 he wrote himself into the Internet universe Second Life, where, until this February, he acted as so-called embedded journalist for the newspaper New World Notes, covering the daily life in the virtual world.
Ralph Baer
Creator, Magnavox Odyssey
Baer has been in the business of inventing, developing and licensing electronic consumer products since 1975. He invented the home console for video games, which spawned the video game industry.
Richard Bartle
Co-author, MUD
Bartle is one of the pioneers of the massive multiplayer online game industry. He is a British writer and game researcher, best known for being the co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon. Bartle received a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Essex, which is where, along with Roy Trubshaw, he created MUD in 1978.
Nolan Bushnell
Founder, Atari
Bushnell set up Atari and is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He has received a great deal of recognition, including being inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame.
Ed Halter
Author, From Sun Tzu to Xbox
From Sun Tzu to Xbox is a definitive history of the longstanding relationship between games and military culture. It goes from wargaming's roots in ancient civilizations, to the Cold War development of computing for battle, and comes right up to date with the recent crop of Pentagon-funded shoot-'em-ups, big-budget commercial titles and homemade hacks.
Toru Iwatani
Creator, Pac-Man
Iwatani was a video game designer in the 1980s, and created one of the most popular arcade games of all time, Puck-man, better known by its American title Pac-man.
Henry Jenkins
Director of Comparative Media Studies, MIT
Jenkins has written extensively about the effects of interactivity, particularly computer games and "games for learning" and in this capacity was called to testify before Congress in 1999. This work ultimately led to the founding of the Education Arcade group, at the MIT Comparative Media Studies programme.
Tomohiro Nishikado
Creator, Space Invaders
Nishikado is a Japanese video game developer. He is known as the creator of the video game Space Invaders, released to the public in 1978 by the Taito Corporation of Japan.
Alexey Pajitnov
Creator, Tetris
Pajitnov developed the popular game Tetris while working for a Soviet government-founded centre.
Will Wright
Creator, Sim City and The Sims
Wright is an American computer game designer best known as the original designer of groundbreaking computer games such as SimCity, The Sims and Spore.