Video Game Creatives Offer Sombre Tribute To Steve Jobs

News of the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs spread quickly today via Twitter, with video game developers, designers and executives mourning the loss of the software and hardware visionary. They offered brief, sombre reactions to Jobs’s passing showing the breadth of his influence and impact.

Jobs’s friends, admirers and even his business rivals took a quick moment to remember his contributions to technology, our lives and their respective careers. Most seemed simply sad to learn of Jobs passing at 56 years old, others expressed their gratitude and respect for his work. It’s truly impressive to see the broad impact that Jobs’ ideas had on video game creatives.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

John Carmack, id Software

Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games

Dylan Jobe, Lightbox Studios

Ken Levine, Irrational Games

John Drake, Harmonix

Chandana Ekanayake, Uber Entertainment

David Jaffe, Eat Sleep Play

Jeff Green, PopCap Games

Mark Rein, Epic Games

Donald Mustard, Chair Entertainment

Pete Hines, Bethesda Softworks

John Romero, co-founder of id Software

George Broussard, 3D Realms

Sony Corporation

Yasumi Matsuno, Level-5 (“Too young at 56,” he says, tweeting that he’d teared up.)