Garry Kitchen
Encyclopedia
Garry Kitchen is a programmer
who is perhaps best known as the author of Garry Kitchen's Gamemaker
for Commodore 64
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He was also the president of Absolute Entertainment
throughout the company's life, and then pulled the plug and became the founding president of Skyworks Technologies
in 1995. Kitchen left Skyworks in September of 2009 and is currently the President/CEO of AppStar Games, which he founded with his long time business partner, David Crane
.
Programmer
A programmer, computer programmer or coder is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. One who practices or professes a formal approach to...
who is perhaps best known as the author of Garry Kitchen's Gamemaker
Activision Gamemaker
Garry Kitchen's GameMaker was an IDE for the Commodore 64 created by Garry Kitchen and released by Activision in 1985. It was the first sophisticated game design product for the average consumer...
for Commodore 64
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...
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He was also the president of Absolute Entertainment
Absolute Entertainment
Absolute Entertainment was a video game publisher based in Glen Rock, New Jersey and later in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Through its development house Imagineering, Absolute Entertainment produced titles for the Amiga, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Sega Game Gear, Sega Mega Drive, Mega-CD, Game Boy,...
throughout the company's life, and then pulled the plug and became the founding president of Skyworks Technologies
Skyworks Technologies
Skyworks Interactive, Inc., formerly known as Skyworks Technologies, Inc. is a video game developer most known for their work in advergaming. It was founded in 1995 by Garry Kitchen and David Crane, industry veterans formerly from Activision and Absolute Entertainment.Skyworks was the creator of...
in 1995. Kitchen left Skyworks in September of 2009 and is currently the President/CEO of AppStar Games, which he founded with his long time business partner, David Crane
David Crane (programmer)
David Crane is a video game designer and programmer.Crane started his programming career at Atari, making games for the Atari 2600. After meeting co-worker Alan Miller in a tennis game, Miller told Crane about a plan he had to leave Atari and found a company that would give game designers more...
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