Chris Crawford (game designer)

Chris Crawford ( born 1950 ) began in 1979 a career as a professional game developers, first with Atari. His computer game Tanktics was the first commercially available computer strategy game.

In 1984 he published The Art of Computer Game Design a book about the development of computer games, which included a draft of a classification system for computer games.

1987 Chris Crawford founded the Computer Game Developers Conference ( CGDC ), the Game Developers Conference takes place every year since 1999 under the slightly modified name.

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)
  • The Art of Computer Game Design. Osborne / McGraw -Hill, Berkeley, California c1984, 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
Strategy video game Balance of Power (video game) MobyGames Integrated Authority File
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