Giles Goddard (video game programmer)
Giles Goddard (born 30 March 1971) is an English video game programmer. He was one of the first Western employees at Nintendo, programming the Mario face in Super Mario 64, and working on titles such as Star Fox, 1080° Snowboarding, and Steel Diver. In 2002, he founded Vitei, a video game developer based in Kyoto, Japan, for which he serves as CEO. Career Argonaut Games Giles Goddard's interest in computers began when he was a teenager, when he used his ZX Spectrum, and later Amiga, to create demoscene works in his spare time. In his Amiga demos, he experimented with 3D wireframe graphics with filled polygons. During this time, Argonaut Software released Starglider 2, one of the first computer games to use filled polygons. Goddard soon left school before finishing his A-levels and joined Argonaut Games, where his first task was porting Starglider 2 to the Macintosh SE. Argonaut would develop a reputation for creating cutting-edge, 3D games. They produced a 3D graphics demo for the Nintendo Entertainment System and collaborated with Nintendo to produce the Game Boy title X, one of the few Game Boy games with 3D graphics. Nintendo When Goddard was 18 or 19, he moved to