Introduction
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.
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.
He also wrote a series of articles for ZX Computing between August 1986 and January 1987, called The Professional Touch.
List of games
For Hewson Consultants:
- 3D Space Wars (1983)
- 3D Seiddab Attack (1984)
- 3D Lunattack (1984)
- Avalon (1984)
- Dragontorc (1985)
- Astroclone (1985)
- Uridium (1986) (music)
- Quazatron (1986)
- Ranarama (1987)
- Zynaps (1987) (music)