Carol Shaw
Designer
Carol Shaw is an American video game designer and programmer.
Career
Shaw was hired by Atari in August 1978 as a Microprocessor Software Engineer while completing her master's degree at UC Berkeley.
After leaving Atari, Shaw worked at Tandem Computers for about 16 months before joining Activision at the beginning of 1982.
Shaw left Activision in 1984, returned to Tandem Computers, worked there through 1990, and then took early retirement while continuing some volunteer or part-time work.
Interesting Facts
- River Raid used a pseudorandom-number method to generate its river landscape from very limited cartridge space, while retaining repeatability from the same seed.
- In 2017, Shaw donated games, source code, design documents, and related memorabilia to The Strong National Museum of Play.
