Mark Cerny
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Mark Evan Cerny is an American video game designer, programmer, producer and media proprietor.
Cerny in 2025
Cerny in 2010
Yu Suzuki and Cerny at Game Developers Conference 2011
GDCA 2014
Marble Madness
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Marble Madness is a 1984 platform game designed by Mark Cerny and published by Atari Games Inc. for arcades. Set in an isometric perspective, the game tasks the player with guiding a marble through si
Mark Cerny
…in the 1990s, as well as other Sony first-party studios like Sucker Punch Productions. He has also developed several games, notably the arcade game Marble Madness and the Knack series, and has been credited on many more for his consulting work. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from…
Brad Fuller (shown in 2005)
The Motorola 68010 (pictured) allowed the developers to program in the more user-friendly C programming language but at the expense of the game running at half the speed of other arcade games.
Concepts for Marble Madness were outlined in an extensive design document. The document contains a number of ideas, like the tilting ramp (top right) and see-saw scale (bottom right), that were not used in the final product.