Chris Sawyer

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Chris Sawyer is a Scottish computer game developer who is best-known for designing and programming Transport Tycoon and the RollerCoaster Tycoon series.Sawyer first entered the games industry in 1983, writing games in Z80 machine code on the Memotech MTX home computer, and then the Amstrad CPC series home computer. Some of these were published by Ariolasoft, Sepulcri Scelerati and Ziggurat. The former was a rare instance of a game being accepted by a publisher when it was already nearing completion.From 1988 to 1993, Sawyer worked on PC conversions of Amiga games and was involved in many projects, including Virus, Campaign, Birds of Prey, Dino Dini's Goal and Frontier: Elite II. He also contributed to the PC version Elite Plus.