# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-crawford-q1077142
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:43:02.017Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-crawford-q1077142"
name: "Chris Crawford"
slug: "chris-crawford-q1077142"
description: "Christopher Crawford is an American video game designer and writer. Hired by Alan Kay to work at Atari, Inc., he wrote the computer wargame Eastern Front (1941) for Atari 8-bit computers which was sold through the Atari Program Exchange and later Atari's official product line. After leaving Atari, he wrote a string of games beginning with Balance of Power for Macintosh. Writing about the process of developing games, he became known among other creators in the nascent home computer game industry for his passionate advocacy of game design as an art form. He self-published The Journal of Computer Game Design and founded the Computer Game Developers Conference."
tagline: "Computer game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris-Crawford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.22
  momentum:             2.906976744186047
  historical:           7.907526666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "基斯·古羅霍"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford"
    title: "Chris Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford_(Spieleentwickler)"
    title: "Chris Crawford (Spieleentwickler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford_(game_designer)"
    title: "Chris Crawford (game designer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford"
    title: "Chris Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford"
    title: "Chris Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "クリス・クロフォード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%81%AC%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4_%ED%81%AC%EB%A1%9C%ED%8D%BC%EB%93%9C"
    title: "크리스 크로퍼드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford"
    title: "Chris Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1077142"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump