Games Designers

Where to start? Well, Shigeru Miyamoto seems to be revered as somewhat of a god at Nintendo, as many consider him to be the greatest video games designer, with Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, Zelda. There is even an online shrine to him! There are interviews with him on this site, dating from 1991.

Grand Theft Auto (as, indeed, with most games) owes its existence to a number of designers, and there's a good interview here, at the Design Museum website. Dan Houser explains that:

We felt that video games, interactive entertainment or whatever you wanted to call it could also appeal to a bigger, wider audience - older people who enjoyed playing games, but did not do so to the exclusion of everything else. People with an interest in film, music, books and a broader sense of popular culture.

My interests are not only in popular culture (although my game will be influenced heavily by it), but also history, art and literature.

More on the history of video games and designers here, at wikipedia.