Roberta Williams

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Roberta Heuer Williams (born February 16, 1953 ) is an American computer game developer .

Life

In the 1980s and 1990s, Roberta and her husband Ken Williams were among the best-known developers in the field of graphic adventures . Together they founded On-Line Systems, which later became known as Sierra On-Line . Together they also developed the first graphic adventure Mystery House in 1980 . Roberta Williams' most famous titles include Time Zone , the King's Quest series and The Dagger of Amon Ra. Although Sierra was sold in 1996 and her husband left the company in 1997, Williams continued to work there until 1999. Her areas of activity included game design, game production and sound design.

Roberta and Ken married when they were 19 years old. You have two children. Her contribution to the computer game industry has been recorded in part in the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution . The last known status of the Williams family was documented in the form of an interview by an Asian gaming magazine that they have built a house in Mexico and are planning to live there for a while. In the interview, Williams indicated that she wanted to return to the video game industry as soon as she developed a concept of how the adventure genre could be combined with massively multiplayer online game .

In 1996, the US online game magazine GameSpot listed Williams as 10th of the 15 most influential game developers. In 2002 she was ranked among the 30 most important game developers of all time by the US online game magazine GameSpy . In 2009, Roberta and Ken Williams were ranked among the 100 most important game developers of all time by the US online game magazine IGN . The Williams couple received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 Game Awards in Las Vegas. In the same context, a new offshoot of the King's Quest series, developed by The Odd Gentleman studio, was presented. In the same year, Odd Manor , a casual game for the Facebook platform , appeared in which Williams made some contributions to the design concept.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Most Influential People in Computer Gaming ( English ) In: GameSpot . CNET . March 2, 2002. Archived from the original on February 17, 2002. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
  2. ↑ GameSpy's 30 Most Influential People in Gaming ( English ) In: GameSpy . News Corp . March 2, 2002. Archived from the original on February 8, 2005. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ 23. Ken Williams & Roberta Williams ( English ) In: IGN . News Corp . 2009. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 5, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / games.ign.com
  4. ↑ The Game Awards 2014 - Dragon Age Game of the Year, Sierra Industry Icon
  5. ↑ King's Quest Trailer Brings the Adventure Series Back to Life
  6. ↑ Gamezebo.com: Legendary King's Quest designer Roberta Williams working on Facebook's Odd Manor. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Roberta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Roberta Heuer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer game developer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1953