From 1988 to 1993, Sawyer worked on MS-DOS conversions of Amiga games and was involved in many projects, including Virus, Conqueror, Campaign, Birds of Prey, Dino Dini's Goal and Frontier: Elite II.
He faced issues with one company failing to pay him royalties on continued sales of his games. Some of these were published by Ariolasoft, Sepulcri Scelerati and Ziggurat.
He sent tapes containing his games to Memotech, who arranged first publications of his titles.
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Sawyer began to write games in Z80 machine code on his Memotech MTX home computer- which possessed a built in assembler- and then later on an Amstrad CPC series home computer. Career Memotech & MS-DOS titles (1983–1993) He graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Microprocessor Systems from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Being unable to afford a BBC Micro, Sawyer purchased a Camputers Lynx with which he could write simple programs in machine code. Sawyer was born in Stirling, Scotland, and had an interest with computers and programming from an early age, writing simple scripts in BASIC on a ZX81 at a local store in Doune. After a legal dispute with Atari and a hiatus from the industry, he founded 31X, which released a mobile version of Transport Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic for mobile, Windows, and macOS. His interest in roller coasters led to the development of RollerCoaster Tycoon. After working on MS-DOS conversions of Amiga games, he developed his own title inspired by Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon, leading to the creation of Transport Tycoon in 1994. He created early games on his Memotech MTX and Amstrad CPC series home computers, with Memotech arranging the first publications of his titles. He got his start in programming using BASIC on a ZX81 and later a Camputers Lynx, eventually graduating with a degree in Computer Science and Microprocessor Systems.
After a period away from the games industry in the late 2000s, Sawyer founded 31X, a mobile game development company. He is best known for creating Transport Tycoon, which has been considered "one of the most important simulation games ever made", and the bestseller RollerCoaster Tycoon series. Christopher Sawyer is a Scottish video game designer and programmer.
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