Who is the creator of the Cashflow board and software games and also the author of the 1997 book Rich Dad Poor Dad.
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Rich Dad Poor Dad Rich Dad Poor Dad is a 1997 book written by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter. Also see WikiSummaries of Rich Dad Poor Dad. It advocates the importance of financial literacy (financial education), financial independence and building wealth through investing in assets, real estate investing, starting and owning businesses, as well as increasing one's financial intelligence (financial IQ) to improve one's business and financial aptitude. "Rich Dad Poor Dad" is written in the style of a set of parables, ostensibly based on Kiyosaki's life.
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Robert Kiyosaki Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born April 8, 1947) is an American businessman and author. Kiyosaki is the founder of the Rich Dad Company, a private financial education company that provides personal finance and business education to people through books and videos. He is also the creator of the Cashflow board and software games to educate adults and children business and financial concepts.
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Scott Miller (entrepreneur) Scott Miller (born 1961 in Florida) is an American video game designer, programmer, and entrepreneur best known for founding Apogee Software, Ltd. (which later became 3D Realms) in 1987. Starting with the "Kroz" series for MS-DOS from that year, Miller pioneered the concept of giving away the first game in a trilogy—distributed freely as shareware—with the opportunity to purchase the remaining two episodes. This method became the standard distribution method for Apogee. Competitors such as Epic MegaGames later adopted the same business model.
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Gunpei Yokoi Gunpei Yokoi (Japanese: 横井 軍平 , Hepburn: Yokoi Gunpei , September 10, 1941 – October 4, 1997) , sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer. He was a long-time Nintendo employee, best known as creator of the Game & Watch handheld system, inventor of the Control Pad (whose plus-shaped design nearly all video game controllers attempt to mimic today), the original designer of the Game Boy, and producer of a few long-running and critically acclaimed video game franchises, such as "Metroid" and "Kid Icarus".
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Richard Brodie (programmer) Richard Reeves Brodie (born November 10, 1959) is an American computer programmer and author. He was the original creator of Microsoft Word. After leaving Microsoft, Brodie became a motivational speaker and authored two bestselling books.
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Puzzle Panic Puzzle Panic, also known as "Ken Uston's Puzzle Panic", is a computer game created by blackjack strategist Ken Uston, Bob Polin (designer of "Blue Max"), and Ron Karr. It was published by Epyx in 1984 for the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64.
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Scott Kim Scott Kim is an American puzzle and computer game designer, artist, and author of Korean descent. He started writing an occasional "Boggler" column for "Discover" magazine in 1990, and became an exclusive columnist in 1999, and created hundreds of other puzzles for magazines such as "Scientific American" and "Games", as well as thousands of puzzles for computer games. He was the holder of the Harold Keables chair at Iolani School in 2008.
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Jerry Kaplan Samuel Jerrold "Jerry" Kaplan (born March 25, 1952) is an American computer scientist, author, futurist, and serial entrepreneur. He is best known as a pioneer in the field of pen computing and tablet computers. He is the founder of numerous companies, including GO Corporation, whose technology was used to develop the first smartphone and tablet PC. Kaplan is the co-founder of OnSale, the first B2C online auction site launched in 1994, five months prior to eBay. He is a recipient of the 1998 Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award and author of the best-selling book "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure." He has been featured in major news publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Red Herring, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Kaplan is also the author of the 2015 book "Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence". Additional companies he has co-founded include artificial intelligence company Teknowledge, Inc. and social game website Winster.com. Kaplan is currently a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
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Stoo Cambridge Stuart "Stoo" Cambridge (born 6 September 1969 in Barking, Greater London, UK) is a British computer game designer and artist, and former member of British software developer Sensible Software.
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Larry DeMar Lawrence E. "Larry" DeMar (also known by his initials L.E.D.) is a video game and pinball designer and software programmer. He is known as co-designer, alongside Eugene Jarvis, of the classic arcade games "Defender" and "".
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Richard Tucholka Richard Tucholka (February 9, 1954 - April 27, 2017) was a writer, game designer and publisher, best known for his work in the creation of the role-playing games "Fringeworthy" & "".
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Chip Morningstar Chip Morningstar is an author, developer, programmer and designer of software systems, mainly for online entertainment and communication. He graduated from University of Michigan in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. While at the University of Michigan he also performed research in the Space Physics Research Laboratory, where he wrote device drivers and CAD software for electronic circuitry. Morningstar held many jobs throughout his career in the research and development of technology and programs. Most notably was Morningstar's role as project leader for Lucasfilm's "Habitat", the first large-scale virtual multiuser environment. In March 2001, Morningstar and colleague Randy Farmer were awarded the inaugural "First Penguin Award" by the International Game Developers Association for their work on Habitat. He also participated in Project Xanadu, for which the word hypertext was first coined. Additionally, he is credited with coining the term avatar for an on-screen representation and pre-Internet work in online information marketplaces.
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Enlight Software Enlight Software is a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment. The company was founded by Trevor Chan in 1993, and their first project was the economic strategy game "Capitalism", which was published by Interactive Magic in 1995. In 1997, they released "Capitalism Plus" (an updated version of "Capitalism") and the real-time strategy game "Seven Kingdoms". Later games include "Virtual U", "Capitalism II", "", "", "Restaurant Empire", "Zoo Empire", "Marine Park Empire" and "Restaurant Empire II".
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Shed Simove Sheridan Howard Simove or Shed Simove (born 8 May 1971) is a British author, performer, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. He is known for his non-fiction book "Ideas Man" and for several widely reported publicity stunts and controversies. He is also the creator of a number of well-known novelty products, such as the "Control-A-Woman" remote control. Playboy called Simove the ‘smartest guy ever’ and the Observer has dubbed him a ‘Marketing God’.
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Stephen Clarke-Willson Stephen Clarke-Willson, Ph.D, is a computer scientist who was a video game producer and executive producer in the early 1990s who produced a number of hit games.
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John A. Garcia John A. Garcia (born 1949) is a Spanish-born American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is best known as a pioneer of the modern American computer game industry. His early contributions to gaming were partially responsible for the industry’s recovery from the North American video game crash of 1983.
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Keith Johnson (author) Robert Keith Johnson (born 14 October 1938), known as Keith Johnson, is a writer and software developer. While working as a science teacher he published his first work, starting his career as an author. He left classroom education in 1990 to develop software to support teachers, and to promote physics through the writing of textbooks and associated materials.
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Tools for Thought Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology is a work of "retrospective futurism" in which Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold looked at the history of computing and then attempted to predict what the networked world might look like in the mid-1990s. The book covers the groundbreaking work of thinkers like Alan Turing, John von Neumann, and J.C.R. Licklider, as well as Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, and Microsoft (when Microsoft was "aiming for the hundred-million-dollar category"). Rheingold wrote that the impetus behind "Tools for Thought" was to understand where "mind-amplifying technology" was going by understanding where it came from.
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Halcyon Days (book) Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers is a digital book edited by James Hague and published in 1997. The book was originally formatted using HTML and sold via mail-order, shipped on a floppy disk by Dadgum Games for USD$20. In 2002 "Halcyon Days" was made freely available on the web. The book continued to be sold by "Dr. Dobb's Journal", on a CD-ROM also containing Susan Lammers's "Programmers at Work", until Dr. Dobb's shut down at the end of 2014.
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Haden Blackman W. Haden Blackman is an American writer and video game designer.
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Savage Entertainment Savage Entertainment was a video game developer founded in 1997 by Tim Morten and Chacko Sonny.
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Warren Robinett Joseph Warren Robinett, Jr. (born December 25, 1951) is a designer of interactive computer graphics software, notable as the developer of the Atari 2600's "Adventure" — the first graphical adventure video game — and as a founder of The Learning Company, where he designed "Rocky's Boots" and "Robot Odyssey". More recently he has worked on virtual reality projects.