Chris

Chris Crawford

Chris
#6,061
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Computer game designer

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Computer Science
#421
World Rank
#466
Historical Rank
#230
USA Rank
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#4580
World Rank
#4968
Historical Rank
#651
USA Rank
computer-science Degrees

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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Crawford is an American video game designer and writer. Hired by Alan Kay to work at Atari, Inc., he wrote the computer wargame Eastern Front for the Atari 8-bit family which was sold through the Atari Program Exchange and later Atari's official product line. After leaving Atari, he wrote a string of games beginning with Balance of Power for Macintosh. Writing about the process of developing games, he became known among other creators in the nascent home computer game industry for his passionate advocacy of game design as an art form. He self-published The Journal of Computer Game Design and founded the Computer Game Developers Conference .

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