Game Creators

Interview by David, Retro Replay. A wheat field had to move inside a tiny tile. A Roman city had to feel alive without burying the player in detail. An aqueduct had to look convincing while being assembled from just a handful of graphics. For Chris Beatrice, the art of those early strategy games was inseparable from finding practical solutions that made a world readable, appealing, and enjoyable to inhabit. Beatrice joined Impressions… Read more

Interview by David, Retro Replay Dizzy began with a problem small enough to fit inside a sprite: how do you give a game character a face that can actually express something? Philip Oliver's answer became one of the most recognisable figures of the British home-computer era. With his twin brother Andrew, he built a world of enchanted forests, peculiar objects, needy neighbours, and puzzles that could turn a humble bean into a… Read more

Sometimes a game stays with you as a tune. The television is gone, the controller has changed, and you can barely remember the last race you won. Then a few notes bring the whole afternoon back. For players who grew up with Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 or Top Gear, Barry Leitch is part of that memory. His music gave small cars and distant horizons a sense of occasion. You could be having… Read more