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Sid Meier is a Canadian video game producer, engineer, computer scientist, and game designer. Born in Sarnia in 1954, he is a citizen of Canada and a Lutheran. He studied at the University of Michigan and began his professional work period in 1982. His fields of work include game design and entrepreneurship, and he has been employed by 2K.
Meier’s notable works include *Sid Meier's Railroads!*, *Sid Meier's Memoir!*, *Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri*, and *Sid Meier's civilization III*. He speaks English. A quote attributed to him states, "A game is a series of interesting choices."
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Sid Meier's Railroads!
- Sid Meier's Memoir!
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
- Sid Meier's civilization III
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 159
- Total plays
- 4,904
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sid+Meier">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
· 1958 · cited 70,801x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,210x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,794x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,658x
- Genome sequence-based species delimitation with confidence intervals and improved distance functions
· 2013 · cited 6,312x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “A game is a series of interesting choices.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1954-02-24 ) February 24, 1954 (age 72) , Sarnia , Ontario , Canada
- Education
- University of Michigan ( BA )
- Occupations
- Businessman, computer programmer
- Years active
- 1981–present
- Employer
- 2K Games
- Known for
- MicroProse , Firaxis Games , Civilization series
- Spouse
- Susan Meier
- Children
- Ryan Meier
- Awards
- AIAS Hall of Fame Award (1999)
via Wikipedia infobox
Article · Português
Sid Meier (Sarnia, Ontario, 24 de fevereiro de 1954) é um conhecido programador e designer canadense de alguns dos considerados maiores sucessos e mais aclamados jogos de computador de todos os tempos. Meier ganhou vários prêmios por sua contribuição à indústria de jogos de computador e pelos títulos que tiveram um grande sucesso comercial. Meier é considerado um dos lendários gigantes da indústria de jogos para computador até hoje. Em 1999, Meier tornou-se a segunda pessoa a ser incluído no Hall da Fama da Academia de Artes e Ciências Interativas. O primeiro a ser adicionado foi Shigeru Miyamoto da Nintendo. Sid Meier fundou a MicroProse junto de Bill Stealey em 1982. A MicroProse é a empresa na qual Meier desenvolveu a série de jogos pela qual é mais conhecido, Civilization. Meier deixou a MicroProse e em 1996 fundou a Firaxis Games junto com o executivo de jogos veterano Jeff Briggs. Sid Meier é casado com Susan Meier e tem um filho: Ryan Meier. Atualmente mora em , no estado norte-americano de Maryland.
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