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Mark Cerny

1964 - Today

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Mark Evan Cerny (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 810,961 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mark Cerny is the 52nd most popular game designer (down from 38th in 2019), the 12,488th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,927th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Game Designer.

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  • 810k

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  • 37.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Mark Cerny ranks 52 out of 56. Before him are Tim Schafer, Koji Igarashi, Todd Howard, Michel Ancel, Michael Morhaime, and Jordan Mechner. After him are John Tobias, Neil Druckmann, Éric Chahi, Chris Metzen, Chris Sawyer, and Tom Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Mark Cerny ranks 583. Before him are Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Jonas Sjöstedt, Dedee Pfeiffer, Patrick Fabian, Erica Gimpel, and Jordan Mechner. After him are George Newbern, Hendrie Krüzen, Frode Grodås, Andrei Borisenko, Ty Pennington, and Roy Tarpley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mark Cerny ranks 12,488 out of 18,182. Before him are Sharon Robinson (1953), Ashanti (1980), Bill Hougland (1930), Janet L. Kavandi (1959), Derek Chauvin (1976), and Leon Wilkeson (1952). After him are Frederick D. Gregory (1941), Tiffany Darwish (1971), John C. Baez (1961), Raphael Sbarge (1965), Kyle Korver (1981), and George Newbern (1964).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United States

Among game designers born in United States, Mark Cerny ranks 19. Before him are Ed Boon (1964), Carol Shaw (1955), Tim Schafer (1967), Todd Howard (1971), Michael Morhaime (1967), and Jordan Mechner (1964). After him are John Tobias (1969), Chris Metzen (1973), Tom Hall (1964), American McGee (1972), Jeff Kaplan (1972), and Matt Harding (1976).

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