Steve Turner (game programmer)

Steve Turner is a former computer game musician and designer. His development team, Graftgold, mostly wrote for games published by Hewson Consultants during the 1980s.

Steve Turner
Born	1954; 71 years ago (1954)
Occupation(s)	computer game musician designer

The first computer he bought was a ZX80 which had to be assembled by hand. At school he was a member of a computing club where he learnt the Algol 60 programming language. During the 1970s he added Cobol to his repertoire from a government funded training course. He went on to a programming job in the Civil Service. Turner was 30 when he decided to move into games development. His first game was written whilst he was still employed as a programmer and he handed his notice in when he received his first royalty cheque.^[1]

He also wrote a series of articles for ZX Computing between August 1986 and January 1987, called The Professional Touch.^[2] Andrew Hewson had previously written for the magazine but got too busy to do it and Turner replaced him.^[3]

List of games

For Hewson Consultants:

• 3D Space Wars (1983)
• 3D Seiddab Attack (1984)
• 3D Lunattack (1984)^[4]
• Avalon (1984)^[3]
• Dragontorc (1985)^[3]
• Astroclone (1985)
• Uridium (1986) (music)
• Alleykat (1986) (music)
• Quazatron (1986)^[4]
• Ranarama (1987)
• Zynaps (1987) (music)
• Magnetron (1988)
• Bushido (1989) (design)
• Rainbow Island (1990) (design)^[5]
• Simulcra (1990) (design and sound effects)
• Super Off Road (1990) (design)