Who are your favorite game producers? Author? Publishers? Developers? ... etc.
As for Author, any game by Chris Roberts is an automatic "A" for me. Wing Commander, Privateer,.. potentially Freelancer, (My Avatar was bound to tag along sooner or later. 🙄 ) and others, I'm sure. Warren Spector produced Ultima Underworld, and is key with games such as Deux Ex, Thief, System Shock, etc.. (All of these are from memory; correct me if I am wrong.)
Origin was originally my favorite Game Developers. Ultima, Wing Commander, the Underworld series, System Shock, ... man, what a great bunch of people. ID, the producers of many FPS's, Quake, Doom, etc. .. All briliant people.