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The Most Famous

GAME DESIGNERS from Monaco

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This page contains a list of the greatest Monegasque Game Designers. The pantheon dataset contains 56 Game Designers, 1 of which were born in Monaco. This makes Monaco the birth place of the 9th most number of Game Designers behind Germany and Russia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Monegasque Game Designers of all time. This list of famous Monegasque 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. Michel Ancel (1972 - )

With an HPI of 37.75, Michel Ancel is the most famous Monegasque Game Designer.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Michel Ancel (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ɑ̃sɛl]; born 29 March 1972) is a retired Monégasque-French video game designer. He is best known for creating the Rayman franchise and was the lead designer or director for several of the games, including Rayman Origins and its sequel Rayman Legends. He is also known for the critically acclaimed (if poorly selling) video game Beyond Good & Evil, as well as for King Kong, based on Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong, which sold well and was critically acclaimed. In 2017, he began work on Beyond Good and Evil 2, although he left the project in 2020.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as game designers born between 1972 and 1972. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living game designers include Michel Ancel.

Living Game Designers

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