Chris Crawford
Chris Crawford (* 1950 ) began a career as a professional game developer in 1979 , initially at Atari .
In 1978 he published his first computer game Tanktics for the Commodore PET under the Avalon Hill brand , which was still a hybrid computer-board game. In 1984 he published The Art of Computer Game Design, a book on the development of computer games, which also contained a draft of a classification system for computer games.
In 1987 Chris Crawford founded the Computer Game Developers Conference (CGDC), which has been held annually since 1999 under the somewhat modified name Game Developers Conference .
Publications
Games
- Tanktics ( Avalon Hill , strategy game , 1978)
- Eastern Front 1941 ( Atari , strategy game, 1981)
- Balance of Power ( Mindscape , strategy game, 1985)
- Trust and Betrayal - Legacy of Siboot , (Mindscape, 1987)
Books
- The Art of Computer Game Design. Osborne / McGraw-Hill, Berkeley, California, 1984, ISBN 0-88134-117-7
- Balance of Power , 1986
- You Should Learn to Program , 1988
- The Art of Interactive Design , No Starch Press, 2002, ISBN 1886411840
- Chris Crawford on Game Design , New Riders Press, 2003, ISBN 0131460994
- Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling , New Riders Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0321278909
Web links
Commons : Chris Crawford - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Erasmatazz - Chris Crawford's website
- Chris Crawford at MobyGames (English)
- The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford - online book with current additions to the original edition
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| SURNAME | Crawford, Chris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American game developer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |