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Chris Crawford Biography

Chris Crawford is one of the most popular and richest Computer Game Designer who was born on June 1, 1950 in Houston, Texas, United States.

Christopher Crawford (born June 1, 1950) is a computer game designer and writer. He designed and programmed several important computer games in the 1980s, including Eastern Front (1941) 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 (now called the Game Developers Conference). In 1992 Crawford withdrew from commercial game development and began experimenting with ideas for a next generation interactive storytelling system. In 2018, Crawford announced that he had halted his work on interactive storytelling, concluding that it will take centuries for civilization to embrace the required concepts .

After receiving a B.S. in physics from UC Davis in 1972 and an M.S. in physics from University of Missouri in 1975, Crawford taught at a community college and the University of California.

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Crawford wrote a non-fiction book published by McGraw Hill in 1984: The Art of Computer Game Design

Chris Crawford Net Worth

Chris Crawford is one of the richest Computer Game Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Crawford's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He experimented with the Atari 8-bit computer’s hardware assisted smooth scrolling and used it to produce a scrolling map display. This work led to Eastern Front (1941), which is widely considered one of the first wargames on a microcomputer to compete with traditional paper-n-pencil games in terms of depth. Eastern Front was initially published through the Atari Program Exchange, which was intended for user-written software. It was later moved to Atari’s official product line. He followed this with Legionnaire, based on the same display engine but adding real-time instead of turn-based game play.

Crawford acknowledged that his views on computer game design were unusual and controversial. In a 1986 interview with Computer Gaming World he stated that he began writing software as a hobby that became a job with the goal of writing the best possible game. Crawford said that by 1982, his goal was to pursue computer games as an art form. While denouncing hack and slash games (“just straight run, kill or be killed”), text adventures (“about as interesting as a refrigerator light”), and the Commodore 64 and Apple II series (“so gutless. I don’t feel I can do an interesting game on them”), he stated that Dan Bunten, Jon Freeman and Anne Westfall, and himself were the only designers who had proven that they could develop more than one great game.

At the 1992 CGDC, Chris Crawford gave “The Dragon Speech”, which he considers “the finest speech of [his] life”. Throughout the speech, he used a dragon as a metaphor for video games as a medium of artistic expression. He declared that he and the video game industry were working “at cross purposes”, with the industry focusing heavily on “depth”, when Crawford wanted more “breadth”: to explore new horizons rather than merely furthering what has already been explored. He arrived at the conclusion that he must leave the gaming industry in order to pursue this dream. He declared that he knew that this idea was insane, but he compared this “insanity” to that of Don Quixote:

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By 1983 BYTE called Crawford “easily the most innovative and talented person working on the Atari 400/800 computer today”, and his name was well enough known that Avalon Hill’s advertising for a revised version of Legionnaire mentioned Crawford as author. Laid off in the Atari collapse during the North American video game crash of 1983, Crawford went freelance and produced Balance of Power for the Macintosh in 1985, which was a best-seller, reaching 250,000 units sold.

Since then, Crawford has been working on Storytron (originally known as Erasmatron), an engine for running interactive electronic storyworlds. As of December 2008, a beta version of the Storytronics authoring tool, Swat, has been released. The system was officially launched March 23, 2009, with Crawford’s storyworld sequel to Balance of Power. As of December 1, 2012, the project has been in a “medically induced coma.” In August 2013 Crawford released source code of several of his games from his career to the public, fulfilling a 2011 given promise, among them Eastern Front (1941) and Balance of Power.

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After his “Dragon” speech, at GDC 1993, and his apparent exit from the gaming industry, Crawford did appear at GDC the following year but had not abandoned his unconventional views on game design. Computer Gaming World wrote after the 1993 conference that Crawford “has opted to focus upon a narrow niche of interactive art lovers rather than continuing to reach as many gamers as possible”. He served as editor of Interactive Entertainment Design, a monthly collection of essays written for game designers.

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Chris Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Game Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Chris Crawford celebrates birthday on June 1 of every year.

The Game Developers Conference, which in 2013 drew over 23,000 attendees, began in 1987 as a salon held in Crawford’s living room with roughly 27 game design friends and associates. The gathering’s original name, the Computer Game Developers Conference, would remain into the 1990s until the word Computer was dropped. While the GDC has become a prominent event in the gaming industry, Crawford was eventually ousted from the GDC board, and made his final official appearance at the gathering in 1994. He eventually returned to the conference, giving lectures in both 2001 and 2006.

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