Chris Crawford

Video Game Designer

1950 –

98

Who is Chris Crawford?

Christopher Crawford is a computer game designer and writer. He designed and programmed several important computer games in the 1980s, including Eastern Front and Balance of Power. Among developers he became known for his passionate advocacy of game design as an art form, founding both The Journal of Computer Game Design and the Computer Game Developers' Conference. In 1992 Crawford withdrew from commercial game development and began experimenting with ideas for a next generation interactive storytelling system.

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Born
1950
Houston
Education
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of Missouri–Columbia

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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