Roberta Williams Quotes

• I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

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• An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

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• A good story never dies.

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• Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.

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• Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

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• I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

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• I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

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• My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

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• I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don’t put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

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• I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

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• It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

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• If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

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• King’s Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King’s Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.

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• The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.

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Roberta Williams (14)

Birth:	16th February, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Game Designer, Writer

About

Roberta Williams is an American video game designer, writer and a co-founder of Sierra On-Line, originally from Simi Valley, California. She is most famous for her pioneering work in graphic adventure games such as Mystery House, the King's Quest series, and Phantasmagoria.

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