# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-overmars
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:18:34.186Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-overmars"
name: "Mark Overmars"
slug: "mark-overmars"
description: "Markus Hendrik \"Mark\" Overmars is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of game programming known for his game development application GameMaker. GameMaker allows users to create computer games using a drag-and-drop interface. He is the former head of the Center for Geometry, Imaging, and Virtual Environments at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. This research center focuses on computational geometry and its applications in areas such as computer graphics, robotics, geographic information systems, imaging, multimedia, virtual environments, and games."
tagline: "Dutch computer scientist (born 1958)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958-09-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.69
  momentum:             3.554979503255364
  historical:           13.29420666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Маркус Хендрік Овермарс"
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    title: "مارك اوفرمارس (استاذ جامعة من مملكه نيديرلاند)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Overmars"
    title: "Mark Overmars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Overmars"
    title: "Mark Overmars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Overmars"
    title: "Mark Overmars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Overmars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Overmars"
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    title: "Mark Overmars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Overmars"
    title: "Mark Overmars"
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    title: "Mark Overmars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump