Jacob Habgood

Jacob Habgood worked alongside Mark Overmars on the book "The Game Maker's Apprentice". He worked as a professional game developer for seven years, programming console games for Gremlin Interactive and Infogrames/Atari in the north of England. While doing so he led the programming teams on many successful titles, including Micro Machines and Hogs of War.

As of 2006, he works for Sumo Digital as the Head of Serious Games and continues to contribute to the development of Game Maker for YoYoGames.