Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux has been crowned the favourite game industry “hero”, according to a report over on USA Today. In its turn, that’s according to a recent online survey, asking some 9000 game developers to name their favourite peers, ranking them on a scale of 1-10.
Obviously some of the other people featured are predictable enough – Nintendo god Shigeru Miyamoto, Sim-everything Will Wright, and id Software’s John Carmack, for example – although I’d totally never heard of David Braben either.
The full top ten list includes:
1. Peter Molyneux (Black & White, Populous, Fable)
2. Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong)
3. Jonathan Blow (Braid)
4. Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims, Spore)
5. John Carmack (Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake)
6. Mike Morhaime (World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo)
7. David Braben (Elite)
8. Sid Meier (Sid Meier’s Civilization, Sid Meier’s Pirates)
9. Masaya Matsuura (PaRappa the Rapper)
10. Dave Jones (Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto)

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