Sid Meier

Sid Meier
Sid Meier pada tahun 2007
Lahir	24 Februari 1954 (umur 72) Sarnia, Ontario, Kanada
Almamater	Universitas Michigan
Pekerjaan	Pemrogram permainan video, desainer permainan video, produser permainan video
Masa aktif	1982—sekarang
Pemberi kerja	Firaxis Games
Dikenal karena	Civilization
Pasangan menikah	Susan Meier
Anak	Ryan Meier

Sidney K. "Sid" Meier (lahir 24 Februari 1954) adalah seorang pemrogram dan desainer permainan video keturunan Kanada-Amerika dari beberapa permainan video strategi dan permainan video simulasi, lalu yang paling dikenal adalah Civilization. Meier turut mendirikan MicroProse tahun 1982 dan merupakan Direktur dari Pengembangan Kreatif untuk pngembang permainan komputer Firaxis Games, yang ia dirikan bersama Jeff Briggs dan Brian Reynolds tahun 1996. Dia telah memenangkan beberapa penghargaan bergengsi untuk kontribusinya kepada industri permainan video.

Permainan

Berikut ini adalah permainan video yang dikembangkan dan/atau diproduksi oleh Sid Meier:^[1]

1980an

Game	Release	Notes
Spitfire Ace	1982	The first project in which Meier played a major role in the game creation stage.
Hellcat Ace	1982
Floyd of the Jungle	1982
NATO Commander	1984
Solo Flight	1984
Kennedy Approach	1985
F-15 Strike Eagle	1985
Silent Service	1985	A World War II submarine simulation game, and Meier's first foray out of flight sims.
Crusade in Europe	1985
Decision in the Desert	1985
Conflict in Vietnam	1986
Gunship	1986
Sid Meier's Pirates!	1987
Red Storm Rising	1988	Naval warfare game based on the novel by Tom Clancy.
F-19 Stealth Fighter	1988
F-15 Strike Eagle II	1989
Sword of the Samurai	1989

1990an

Game	Release year	Notes
Covert Action	1990
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon	1990	A business simulation game that paints the early development of railroads in the United States and Europe. With the release of Sid Meier's Railroads!, this series now has four installments.
Sid Meier's Civilization	1991	A megahit turn-based strategy game, sparking Meier's most successful game franchise to date that sold over 8 million copies as of 2008.[2]
Pirates! Gold	1993
Sid Meier's Colonization	1994	A turn-based strategy game themed on the early European colonization of the New World.
Sid Meier's Civilization II	1996	Follow-up to Sid Meier's successful Civilization; Brian Reynolds was lead designer on the game.
Magic: The Gathering	1997	This would be the last game that Sid Meier worked on for MicroProse.
Sid Meier's Gettysburg!	1997	Sid Meier's first real-time tactical game.
Sid Meier's Antietam!	1998	Sid Meier's Gettysburg and Antietam are part of his Civil War set.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri	1999	Brian Reynolds was lead designer on this adaptation of Civilization to an outer space theme.

2000an

Game	Release	Notes
Sid Meier's Civilization III	2001	Jeff Briggs designed the third installment of the series, with more complex rules, graphics and gameplay.
Sid Meier's SimGolf	2002	A golfing simulation in which the player built their own golf course and played it against computer players, co-created by Maxis. (Not to be confused with Maxis' 1996 title SimGolf.)
Sid Meier's Pirates!	2004	Follow-up to the acclaimed Pirates! game from 1987, updating the graphics and featuring some entirely new gameplay elements.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV	2005	Designed by Soren Johnson. A full 3D engine replaces the isometric maps of Civilization II and III.
Sid Meier's Railroads!	2006	When Take 2 shut down PopTop Software and folded it into Firaxis, Meier once again became responsible for the Railroad Tycoon series, and this is billed as the sequel to Railroad Tycoon 3.
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution	2008	A seventh generation console edition of Civilization.
Sid Meier's Pirates! Mobile	2008	The game was developed and published by Oasys Mobile and was led by one of the original programmers for Pirates! Gold.
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Mobile		Developed by Blue Heat and published by Oasys Mobile. This mobile version allows players to build their own transportation empire.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization	2008	A 2008 remake of the 1994 Colonization, and a standalone game based on the Civilization IV engine.

2010an

Game	Release	Notes
Sid Meier's Civilization V	2010	Headed by Jon Shafer, new features include Social Policy (which replaces "Civics" system), unit stacking change, City-States, fully animated leaders and replacing the squares on the board with hexagons.
Sid Meier's CivWorld	2011	A massively multiplayer online game that runs on Adobe Flash, and was released on Facebook.

Refereni

Pranala luar

• Sid Meier's biography and his games history at Firaxis.com Diarsipkan 2013-01-20 di Wayback Machine.
• Sid Meier di MobyGames
• Sid Meier di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)