GAME DESIGNER

Chris Sawyer

1961 - Today

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Christopher Sawyer is a Scottish video game designer and programmer. He is best known for creating Transport Tycoon, which has been considered "one of the most important simulation games ever made", and the best-selling RollerCoaster Tycoon series. Sawyer began his career in the early 1980s producing small games for Memotech and developing DOS ports of many Amiga games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Sawyer has received more than 799,538 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Chris Sawyer is the 60th most popular game designer (down from 57th in 2019), the 6,266th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,957th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Chris Sawyer ranks 60 out of 77. Before him are John Tobias, Michel Ancel, Chris Metzen, Mark Cerny, Goichi Suda, and Éric Chahi. After him are Michael Morhaime, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, Patrice Désilets, Tom Hall, and Jeff Kaplan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Chris Sawyer ranks 681. Before him are Alberto Vaquina, Giovanni Evangelisti, Andrei Shleifer, Tomi Poikolainen, Gabi Zange, and Bernd Dittert. After him are Josefina Vázquez Mota, Nikolay Abramov, Ronnie Whelan, David Lovering, Park Kyung-hoon, and Ayan Sadakov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Chris Sawyer ranks 6,266 out of 8,785. Before him are Phil Davis (1953), Antony Costa (1981), Ademola Lookman (1997), Maxwell Caulfield (1959), Stuart Milner-Barry (1906), and Angela Buxton (1934). After him are Rosemarie Frankland (1943), Calum Scott (1988), Helen Sharman (1963), Arthur Owen (1915), Martin Carthy (1941), and James, Viscount Severn (2007).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United Kingdom

Among game designers born in United Kingdom, Chris Sawyer ranks 2. Before him are Peter Molyneux (1959). After him are Toby Gard (1972).

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