The team revealed that their new studio Cygnus Entertainment was creating a remake of Colossal Cave Adventure titled Colossal Cave 3D Adventure
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Roberta Williams
Roberta Lynn Williams is an American video game designer and writer. She has been named by several publications as one of the best or most influential creators in the video game industry.
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business · American video game designer (born 1953) · video game designer · writer · entrepreneur · video game director · video game developer · also Roberta Williams, Williams
Born 16 February 1953 · Q55176
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2021· 2 entries
And returned to game development with the 3D remake of the classic adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure, released as Colossal Cave in 2023
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Williams self-published her first novel Farewell to Tara, set in mid-1800s Ireland during the time of the Great Famine
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded Game Developers Choice Awards for King's Quest (2020).
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2019· 1 entry
Vancouver Film School announced The Roberta Williams Women in Game Design Scholarship, in partnership with game studios The Coalition and Blackbird Interactive
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded The Game Awards – Industry Icon (2014).
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Leading developer The Odd Gentlemen to create King's Quest: A Knight to Remember
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2011· 1 entry
The video game website Gamezebo reported that she had returned from her sabbatical as a design consultant on the social network game Odd Manor, for Facebook
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2009· 1 entry
IGN included both her and Ken in the 23rd position on the list of top game creators of all time, highlighting their role in co-founding Sierra as "the company behind some of the best and most well known adventure games o
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1998· 2 entries
The game was considered a commercial and critical disappointment, leading to further layoffs, and the sale of Sierra to Vivendi
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Williams left the game industry in 1999 and focused her retirement on traveling and writing historical fiction
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1996· 2 entries
Sierra was sold to CUC International for more than a billion dollars in stock
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Leading to layoffs and management changes
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1995· 1 entry
Next Generation included Roberta Williams among their list of 75 power players in the game industry
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1993· 1 entry
“If I could only pick one game, I would pick Phantasmagoria, as I enjoyed working on it immensely and it was so very challenging (and I love to be challenged!). However, in my heart, I will always love the King's Quest series and, especially, King's Quest, I since it was the game that really 'made' Sierra On-Line.”
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1992· 1 entry
It was recognized by several publications as one of the best adventure games, if not one of the best games overall
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1991· 1 entry
A sequel to The Colonel's Bequest based on characters and concepts created by Williams
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1989· 1 entry
Williams released another mystery adventure game called The Colonel's Bequest, which iterated on ideas from her original Mystery House game with more detailed graphics and improved text parsing
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1988· 1 entry
It was one of the first games to receive sound card support, and one of the first adventure games to support a mouse
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1980· 2 entries
The game was distributed by mail order, advertised in computer magazines under the name of Ken's consulting company, On-Line Systems
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Her first game, Mystery House, became a modest commercial success; it is credited as the first graphic adventure game
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-02-16.
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