Chris Sawyer

Chris Sawyer (* in Dundee , Scotland , United Kingdom ) is a programmer of computer games . He was best known for his two games called RollerCoaster Tycoon and Transport Tycoon . He began his career in the computer game industry in 1983, programming for the Memotech MTX home computer and then for the Amstrad CPC . He then served for many ports of Amiga -Play on the PC responsible.

Life

Sawyer's first great success was the traffic simulation Transport Tycoon, which was released for the PC in 1994. He achieved global success in 1999 with the amusement park manager game RollerCoaster Tycoon . It was unusual that Sawyer programmed the game completely by himself and almost exclusively in assembler, except for the sound . In 2002 a second part appeared, which not only contained improvements in details, but also an editor and new attractions.

In September 2004 Atari SA published the unofficial successor to Transport Tycoon " Locomotion ", which uses the RollerCoaster Tycoon graphics engine and otherwise tries to stay close to the original from 1994. At the beginning of November 2004, the third part of the RollerCoaster Tycoon series appeared, which shows the events completely in 3D , but Sawyer only had an advisory role. The programming was done by Frontier Developments Ltd. by elite developer David Braben .

Web links

• Homepage of Chris Sawyer (English)
• Chris Sawyer at MobyGames (English)