James D. Sachs

James D. Sachs is a retired United States Air Force veteran, video game artist and game programmer.
Sachs was the lead artist on the groundbreaking Amiga computer game Defender of the Crown from Cinemaware. He is also the author of the Commodore 64 game Saucer Attack. He is also the author of the CompuTrainer 3D software, Marine Aquarium simulation screensaver SereneScreen Aquarium, and of the user interfaces and start-up animations of the Amiga CDTV and Amiga CD32.
Some time after finishing development of Defender of the Crown, Sachs began working on a video game adaptation of the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Unable to secure from Disney Productions|Disney] the rights for a game based on 20,000 [Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)|their 1954 film], Sachs instead based his design on the original 1870 book by Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, but was ultimately unable to secure funding.