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GAME DESIGNER

Tim Schafer

1967 - Today

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Timothy John Schafer (born July 26, 1967) is an American video game designer. He founded Double Fine Productions in July 2000, after having spent over a decade at LucasArts. Schafer is best known as the designer of critically acclaimed games Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Psychonauts, Brütal Legend and Broken Age, co-designer of Day of the Tentacle, and assistant designer on The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tim Schafer has received more than 1,513,931 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Tim Schafer is the 46th most popular game designer (up from 47th in 2019), the 11,700th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,555th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Game Designer.

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  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Tim Schafer ranks 46 out of 56. Before him are Naoto Ohshima, Chris Taylor, Carol Shaw, David Cage, Jens Bergensten, and Yoshinori Kitase. After him are Koji Igarashi, Todd Howard, Michel Ancel, Michael Morhaime, Jordan Mechner, and Mark Cerny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Tim Schafer ranks 429. Before him are Kari Wuhrer, Marc Warren, Pernilla Wahlgren, Valeriy Heletey, Alcindo Sartori, and Charles Austin. After him are Wladimir Kaminer, Igor Shuvalov, Ihor Pavlyuk, Kazumi Totaka, Artur Grigorian, and Alain Roche.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tim Schafer ranks 11,700 out of 18,182. Before him are Horatio Fitch (1900), Ted Knight (1923), Charles Austin (1967), Simon Rex (1974), Amy Coney Barrett (1972), and Mary Kay Bergman (1961). After him are Greg K. (1965), Chris Dodd (1944), Patrick Joseph Hayes (1867), Emma Willard (1787), Edmund Lowe (1890), and Herbert Goldstein (1922).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United States

Among game designers born in United States, Tim Schafer ranks 15. Before him are Dave Arneson (1947), Ron Gilbert (1964), Roberta Williams (1953), Scott Cawthon (1971), Ed Boon (1964), and Carol Shaw (1955). After him are Todd Howard (1971), Michael Morhaime (1967), Jordan Mechner (1964), Mark Cerny (1964), John Tobias (1969), and Chris Metzen (1973).

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