In case you missed my post on
my blog, or also on
nerdsontherocks.com, these are the people who I think define our industry today. Emphasis on TODAY, because I left a lot of former big names off the list because they've either been off the radar (Itagaki), have quit (Will Wright), lost their touch (Yuji Naka), etc, so don't blast me for those people.
So what do you guys think? who's missing? for your ease, I'll reproduce the list below (in no particular order):
Vince Zampella and Jason West
Cliff Bleszinski
Shigeru Miyamoto
Hideo Kojima
Warren Spector
Peter Molyneux
Marty O'Donnell
Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk
Shinji Mikami
Ken Levine
Todd Howard
Amy Hennig
David Cage
*Oh yeah, one final note, this list represent names involved strictly in the creative process of games. No studio execs who just manage and aren't really involved in the design, like Gabe Newell, or even genius programmers, like John Carmack.