Nicky Robinson is an American

video game programmer A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebases for video games or related software, such as game development tools. Game programming has many specialized disciplines, all of which f ...

and software developer. Her career spanned over thirty years, extending back to titles such as '' Star Control'' and ''

Mail Order Monsters ''Mail Order Monsters'' is an action-strategy computer game created by Paul Reiche III, Evan Robinson, and Nicky Robinson. It was published by Electronic Arts (Ariolasoft in Europe) for the Commodore 64 in 1985, then released for Atari 8-bit fa ...

'', which she worked on with

Evan Robinson Evan is both an English and Welsh male given name derived from "Iefan", a Welsh form for the name John. In other languages it could be compared to " Ivan", " Ian", and " Juan"; the name John itself is derived from the ancient Hebrew name Yəhô ...

and

game designer Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

Paul Reiche III. Robinson later worked at 3DO as a game programmer and on the

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software as a release manager on the Skype team at Microsoft. Robinson helped start the Game Developer's Conference as an offshoot of the ''Journal of Computer Game Design''. She later served in the board of the conference. Robinson's work has been published by

Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted th ...

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, Accolade, and 3DO. Robinson had been active in the organization and leadership of Women in

Games International ''Computer Games Magazine'' was a monthly computer and console gaming print magazine, founded in October 1988 as the United Kingdom publication ''Games International''. During its history, it was known variously as ''Strategy Plus'' (October 1 ...

, a group dedicated to involving more women in professional game development and to advancing their careers.

Games

*''Dora the Explorer: Animal Adventures'' (

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) *'' BattleTanx'' (

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

) *'' Army Men'' (

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

) *'' 3DO Games: Decathlon'' (

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

) *'' Killing Time'' (

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...

) *'' Centurion: Defender of Rome'' ( 1990) *'' Star Control'' (1990) *'' The Last Ninja'' ( 1988) *''

World Tour Golf ''World Tour Golf'' is a 1986 video game by Evan and Nicky Robinson, Paul Reiche III and published by Electronic Arts for Commodore 64, Amiga, Apple IIGS, and DOS. Development After completing '' Mail Order Monsters'' in 1985, developers and ...

'' (1986) *''

'' (

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

)

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* Year of birth missing (living people) American computer programmers American video game programmers Living people Pomona College alumni University of California, Santa Cruz alumni Women video game programmers {{videogame-bio-stub