After Pinball Construction Set, Budge entered what he calls his "wilderness period," five years mostly spent windsurfing and tooling around with an even bigger dream called Construction Set ...

Pinball Construction Set is considered the first construction set game that launched the concept and genre. Construct a pinball game by dropping parts onto the table (or alter the table itself). Alter ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Who was there: The name Bill Budge isn't likely to ring any bells for the average gamer. However, to a generation of the most influential game makers, ...

This year’s Game Developer’s Conference will feature four Classic Games Postmortems, including developers of “some of the industry’s most influential landmark titles,” according to a press release ...

Wright fascinated by games that empower users to share creativity Speaking at the GDC Panel "Forgotten Tales Remembered," Wright says he got an Apple II early in his career, which inspired him with ...

The classic postmortem sessions at GDC are always good for some fun, inside stories of old-school game development, including the likes of GoldenEye 007, Doom, Maniac Mansion and Out of this World.

The past can often teach us important lessons about current circumstances. Games are no different. Today at the Game Developers Conference, four industry legends -- Sid Meier, Will Wright, Cliff ...

Making a videogame used to be something to which only the highest-level geeks could aspire. And then Bill Budge came along. As one of the prototypical computer hackers of the early 1980s, Budge loved ...

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences is handing Bill Budge a Pioneer Award to recognize his trailblazing efforts in the area of DIY game design. Apple II ...