Japanese

Hired by Nintendo in 1977

Became the first artist for the company

Time called him “Spielberg of the gaming industry” and “The father of modern games”

General Dog Lover
Where he lived as a child contributed to his games
Initially hoped to be a manga designer
Networth - $40 Million
Salary - $1 Million per year
Miyamoto graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts with a degree in industrial design
The title that inspired him to enter the video game industry was the 1978 arcade hit Space Invaders.

Is a designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry?

Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Doom and Quake.

His game designs and development tools, along with new programming techniques created and implemented by id Software's lead programmer John D.

Carmack, led to a mass popularization of the first person shooter, or FPS, in the 1990s. He is credited with coining the FPS multiplayer term "deathmatch"

He won a programming contest in A+ magazine during its first year of publishing with his game Cavern Crusader.

Romero's first industry job was at Origin Systems in 1987 after programming games for 8 years.

In the Doom II final level "Icon of Sin", the final boss is supposed to be a giant demon head with a fragment missing from its forehead. It says, "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero!"

·  He developed his first game, a text-based adventure game, at a tender age of eight years, after experimenting with a number of type-in programs.

· In 2005, he joined King.com as a game developer, but left the company in 2009 to move into Jalbum where he worked as a programmer for two years.
· Despite Persson’s pushing the game before he even considered it finished, Minecraft struck a chord with players, and soon it became something of a phenomenon, with 400 copies selling per day for about six dollars per download. That success ended both Persson’s and Porsér’s life of working for other people, and they started their own company, Mojang (which means gadget in Swedish).

· He founded the company Mojang AB in May 2009, along with his best friend Jakob Porser, and began developing video games under this brand.

· He started producing his first sandbox video game, Minecraft, in 2009, and shifted from full-time to part-time at Jalbum, to concentrate on his creation.

· He quit his job in 2010 to focus solely on Minecraft. And after the game was officially launched in 2011, he passed the lead creative authority to Jens Bergensten.

·  Minecraft has been released in various versions to suit all kinds of platforms, including Android, iOS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation Vita and Windows Phone.

· He announced his second game, 0x10c, a sandbox science fiction video game, in 2012, but shelved it due to lack of interest and concentration on other projects. Presently, a team of his fans is developing their own version of the game.

· He appeared in the 2012 documentary showcasing the formation and growth of Mojang and Minecraft titled ‘Minecraft: The Story of Mojang’.

· Apart from his work on developing new games and updating the existing ones, he often participates in various competitions, some being Ludum Dare, Jave 4K Game Programming Contest and LD12.

· He has been a consistent participant at the Ludum Dare 48-hour game making contests. Some of his creations are breaking the Tower, Metagun, Prelude of the Chambered, and Minicraft.

· He sold his company, Mojang, to Microsoft at a whooping cash deal amounting to $2.5 billion, in November 2014, thereby handing over the Minecraft game’s intellectual property to its buyer

· Now hes depressed about his famous and rich life and regrets selling the company, losing his employees as friends, loosing his wife and having to pay 4k maintenance a month, and fells isolated and depressed. 

1968 - Graduated from Utah University – Electrical engineering 

1969 – Formed Syzygy with a colleague Ted Dabney wanting to produce a Spacewar clone known as Computer Space 

Kept the company alive servicing broken pinball machines 

Made an agreement with Nutting Associates who made coin op trivia and shooting games 

Computer space failed commercially but exceeded $3 Million 

1972 – Set off on their own and learned the name was in use already 

Incorporated under the name Atari 

Set up an office in California and contracted to make a driving game and hired their first employee Allan Alcorn

Then bought out his colleague

After attending a demonstration of the Magnavox Odyssey he gave a task of making the tennis game into a coin op version to Alcorn and this game was then made into Pong

•Worked for Interplay Products 1994

•bachelor of arts degree in criminology, law, and society from the University of California--Irvine in 1996.

•Blizzard 1997 – Designer and strike team member, working on StarCraft.

•After StarCraft success, Rob was set to oversee the design of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

•Blizzard Entertainment Vice President of Game Design, led the design for The Burning Crusade Expansion.

•Overall design and implementation of gameplay features. – World of Warcraft

•left Blizzard in July 2014.

•Now CEO of Bonfire Studio