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MaddieAuthor : Maddie
6 June 2025, 8:02 pm

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Legendary Game Designers: Jon Van Caneghem

Jon Van Caneghem stands as one of the most influential yet underappreciated figures in computer role-playing game history. From his humble beginnings as a pre-med student obsessed with games to becoming the mastermind behind two of the most enduring fantasy franchises in gaming, Van Caneghem's career represents the last gasp of the bedroom programmer era and the birth of modern CRPG design philosophy.

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TashaAuthor : Tasha
2 October 2019, 1:29 pm

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Legendary Game Designers: Richard Garriott

“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”

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TashaAuthor : Tasha
22 April 2017, 2:18 pm

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Legendary Game Designers: Guido Henkel

This time we take our journey to Germany, though the designer is technically American, but was born and grew up mostly in Germany. Guido “Guy” Henkel is a bona fide jack-of-all-trades as he dabbles in a little bit of everything from composing and sound design to writing and game programming.

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