David Fox (game designer)

In 2022, Fox was the lead gameplay programmer on Return to Monkey Island, the sixth installment of the Monkey Island franchise.

Fox, along with Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, was involved in the programming, scripting and writing of the adventure game Thimbleweed Park, which was released in March 2017.

From 2005 to 2011, he was the Director of Production for NewsTrust, a citizen news rating service aiming to bring together experienced journalists and volunteer reviewers.

In the run-up to the 2004 Democratic primaries, Fox was active on Howard Dean's Media Team (responsible for Switch2Dean.com) and built a blog for Simon & Schuster on Dean's book, Winning Back America.

In 2001, he returned to immersive gaming at Xulu Entertainment, producing their motion simulator project. He produced and designed a prototype of an educational game for Learning Friends under a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

After leaving LucasArts, Fox was a Senior Game Designer at Rocket Science Games, then worked as a freelance consultant on several games. In 1996, he joined LiveWorld Inc./Talk City, an Internet community provider, as their Director of Kids and Entertainment Programming. During his four years at the company, he produced The InSite, a website for teen empowerment, and then became the Director of New Content.

Fox is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. At age eleven, he made his first 8 mm cartoon using stacks of discarded Flintstones cels he found in the trash bins behind Hanna-Barbera. He studied engineering at UCLA and Humanistic Psychology at Sonoma State University, where he received his bachelor's degree. Fox and his wife Annie co-founded Marin Computer Center in 1977 - the world's first public-access microcomputer center. He co-authored the books Computer Animation Primer, Armchair BASIC, and Pascal Primer.

David Fox (born 30 December 1950, in Los Angeles) is an American multimedia producer who designed and programmed numerous early LucasArts games. He and his wife, Annie Fox, now work on educational software, web design, emotional intelligence content, online communities, emerging technologies, and writing books for children and teens.