{"id":11836,"date":"2011-05-20T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dev-poll-declares-peter-molyneux-the-1-industry-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11836-dev-poll-declares-peter-molyneux-the-1-industry-hero","title":{"rendered":"Dev poll declares Peter Molyneux the #1 industry \u201chero\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionhead&rsquo;s Peter Molyneux has been crowned the favourite game industry &ldquo;hero&rdquo;, according to a report over on <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/gamehunters\/post\/2011\/05\/poll-molyneux-miyamoto-top-world-game-development-heroes\/1?csp=34\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>. In its turn, that&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously some of the other people featured are predictable enough &ndash; Nintendo god Shigeru Miyamoto, Sim-everything Will Wright, and id Software&rsquo;s John Carmack, for example &ndash; although I&rsquo;d totally never heard of David Braben either.<\/p>\n<p>The full top ten list includes:<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Peter Molyneux (Black &amp; White, Populous, Fable)<br \/>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong)<br \/>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jonathan Blow (Braid)<br \/>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims, Spore)<br \/>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John Carmack (Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake)<br \/>6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mike Morhaime (World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo)<br \/>7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; David Braben (Elite)<br \/>8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sid Meier (Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization, Sid Meier&#8217;s Pirates)<br \/>9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Masaya Matsuura (PaRappa the Rapper)<br \/>10.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dave Jones (Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter_molyneux_167650203.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Peter Molyneux<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13576-Peter-Molyneux-declared-ultimate-industry-hero-by-other-developers?p=423210#post423210\" target=\"_self\">Discuss the Neux<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eh likes doggies and doesn\u2019t afraid of anything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}