GAME DESIGNER

Mark Cerny

1964 - Today

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Mark Evan Cerny ( SUR-nee; born August 24, 1964) is an American video game designer, programmer, producer and media proprietor. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Cerny attended UC Berkeley before dropping out to pursue a career in video games. In his early years, he spent time at Atari, Sega, Crystal Dynamics and Universal Interactive Studios before becoming an independent consultant under his own company Cerny Games in 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Cerny has received more than 900,596 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Cerny is the 57th most popular game designer (down from 52nd in 2019), the 13,629th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,459th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 900k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Mark Cerny ranks 57 out of 77. Before him are Neil Druckmann, Yoko Taro, Naoto Ohshima, John Tobias, Michel Ancel, and Chris Metzen. After him are Goichi Suda, Éric Chahi, Chris Sawyer, Michael Morhaime, Yoshiaki Koizumi, and Hidemaro Fujibayashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Mark Cerny ranks 649. Before him are Nikola Jerkan, Laurent Fournier, Franz Wohlfahrt, Guy Hellers, Stefano Cerioni, and Dana Hill. After him are Paul Kaye, Frank-Peter Roetsch, Levon Julfalakyan, Sarah Lancashire, Greg Mottola, and Aurélio Miguel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mark Cerny ranks 13,629 out of 20,380. Before him are Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925), Sydney Tamiia Poitier (1973), Lamont Johnson (1922), Alexa Demie (1990), Jane Rosenthal (1956), and King Moody (1929). After him are Simon Cameron (1799), Dolores Gray (1924), Alberto Gonzales (1955), John Bellamy Foster (1953), Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865), and Joy Behar (1942).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United States

Among game designers born in United States, Mark Cerny ranks 21. Before him are Todd Howard (1971), Jordan Mechner (1964), Tim Schafer (1967), Amy Hennig (1964), John Tobias (1969), and Chris Metzen (1973). After him are Michael Morhaime (1967), Tom Hall (1964), Jeff Kaplan (1972), American McGee (1972), Jonathan Blow (1971), and Rob Pardo (1970).

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