Mark Cerny

About Mark Cerny

Cerny Games was formed by game designer Cerny in 1998. In 2004, he received the International Game Developers Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2010, he was admitted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.

Mark Evan Cerny is an American video game designer, programmer, producer and director. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Cerny graduated from University Foundation School and attended UC Berkeley before dropping out to pursue a career in video games. During his early years, he spent time at Atari, Sega, Crystal Dynamics and Universal Interactive Studios before becoming an independent consultant for his own Cerny Games company in 1998. Cerny has since been works regularly with Sony Interactive Entertainment as a consultant, including as the lead designer for hardware for several PlayStation consoles, and has consulted Naughty Dog and Insomniac Games since their inception in the 1990s, as well as other studios owned by Sony. He has also developed a number of games, including the Marble Madness video game and the Knack series, and credits many others for his consulting work.

Occupation	Game designer, game producer, entertainment executive
Spouse(s)	Katsura Cerny
Nationality	American
Born	Mark Evan Cerny, August 24, 1964
Organization	Cerny Games

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Trivia

He won the AIAS Hall of Fame Award in 2010. He was the lead architect on the Play Station 4.

Mark Cerny before fame

In 1982, he began working with Atari, where he assisted in the development of the popular game Marble Madness.

Achievement of Mark Cerny

In 2010, he was inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame. He was the Play Station 4's principal architect.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Mark Cerny family life

He is a California native.

Associations of Mark Cerny

At Atar, he worked under Nolan Bushnell.

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