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GAME DESIGNERS from France

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This page contains a list of the greatest French Game Designers. The pantheon dataset contains 56 Game Designers, 2 of which were born in France. This makes France the birth place of the 6th most number of Game Designers behind Canada and United Kingdom.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary French Game Designers of all time. This list of famous French Game Designers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. David Cage (1969 - )

With an HPI of 39.74, David Cage is the most famous French Game Designer.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

David De Gruttola (born June 9, 1969), known by his pseudonym David Cage, is a French video game designer, writer and musician. He is the founder of the game development studio Quantic Dream. Cage both wrote and directed the video games Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls for the PlayStation 3, and Detroit: Become Human for the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows.

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2. Éric Chahi (1967 - )

With an HPI of 35.21, Éric Chahi is the 2nd most famous French Game Designer.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Éric Chahi is a French computer game designer and programmer, best known as the creator of Another World (also known as Out of This World in North America) and Heart of Darkness.

Pantheon has 2 people classified as game designers born between 1967 and 1969. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living game designers include David Cage and Éric Chahi.

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