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Bill Tiller
Bill Tiller is an American computer game designer, writer, and artist. At LucasArts, he was the lead artist and art director of '' The Dig'', the lead background artist on ''The Curse of Monkey Island'', and the lead artist on ''Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine''. He created the games ''A Vampyre Story'' and ''Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island'' for Autumn Moon Entertainment, a studio he co-founded with Mike Kirchoff in 2002. He worked as a game designer on the iOS title Perils of Man. Career Bill Tiller was hired by LucasArts adventure games by Collette Michaud in 1992 as an animator for Brian Moriarty's version of '' The Dig''. He stayed with the project through all of its incarnations, and was ultimately the lead artist and art director on the final version of the game. He was the lead background artist of ''The Curse of Monkey Island'', and the lead artist of ''Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine''. In 2001, he left LucasArts to work at ArenaNet. In 2002, co-founded A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Designer
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in the form of gamification. Game designer and developer Robert Zubek defines game design by breaking it down into its elements, which he says are the following: * Gameplay, which is the interaction between the player and the mechanics and systems * Mechanics and systems, which are the rules and objects in the game * Player experience, which is how users feel when they're playing the game Games such as board games, card games, dice games, casino games, role-playing games, sports, video games, war games, or simulation games benefit from the principles of game design. Academically, game design is part of game studies, while game theory studies strategic decision making (primarily in non-game situations). Games have historically inspired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimson Cow
Crimson Cow is a German video game publisher A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer. They often finance the development, sometimes by paying a video game developer ... that was founded in 2002. They hold the German license for the ''Runaway'' series and the worldwide publishing rights for '' A Vampyre Story''. References External linksOfficial Crimson Cow website German companies established in 2002 Video game companies established in 2002 Video game development companies Video game companies of Germany Video game publishers {{Europe-videogame-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 In Video Gaming
1995 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as ''Dragon Quest VI'', ''Mario's Picross'', ''Mega Man 7'', ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'', and ''Tekken 2'', along with new titles such as ''Battle Arena Toshinden'', ''Chrono Trigger'', ''Rayman (video game), Rayman'', ''Soul Edge'', ''Twisted Metal (1995 video game), Twisted Metal'', ''Star Wars: Dark Forces'', ''Destruction Derby'', ''Wipeout (video game), Wipeout'' and ''Jumping Flash!'' The year's highest-grossing arcade game in Japan was ''Virtua Fighter 2'', while the best-selling arcade video games in the United States were ''Daytona USA'' (for the second year in a row) and ''Mortal Kombat 3''. The home video game with the highest known sales in 1995 was ''Dragon Quest VI'', despite only releasing in Japan. The Super Famicom was the best-selling game console in Japan, while the Sega Genesis was the best-selling console in North America. Hardware releases *Nintendo releases: **March 20 – Game Boy line# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures
''Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures'' is a 1994 platform video game released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is a video game adaptation of the ''Indiana Jones'' films ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981), ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' (1984), and ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989). The game was developed by Factor 5 and published by JVC Musical Industries. The story is told through cutscenes and text and is mostly faithful to the movies. Its release coincided with that of '' Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi'', also released by JVC and LucasArts and in the same platform style as the ''Super Star Wars'' trilogy. Gameplay The game is primarily action based, and the player controls Indiana Jones through levels based on events of the films. Jones's main method of attack is his bull-whip, but he can also damage enemies by punching or rolling into them. Occasionally a gun can be found that has unlimited ammo, and grenades are available in limited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return Of The Jedi
''Return of the Jedi'' (also known as ''Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi'' is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand. The screenplay is by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas from a story by Lucas, who was also the executive producer. The sequel to ''Star Wars'' (1977) and ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980), it is the third installment in the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy, the third film to be produced, and the sixth chronological film in the "Skywalker Saga". The film stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew and Frank Oz. Set one year after ''The Empire Strikes Back'', the Galactic Empire is constructing a second Death Star to exterminate the Rebel Alliance. With intel that the Emperor will be onboard, the Rebel fleet launches a full-scale attack on the Death Star in hopes of both destroying it and the Emperor. Meanwhile, Rebel hero Luke Skywalker, now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 In Video Gaming
1994 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as '' Super Metroid'', '' Donkey Kong Country'', ''Final Fantasy VI'', '' Sonic 3 & Knuckles'', ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'' and '' Virtua Fighter 2'' and '' Doom II'', along with new titles such as '' Daytona USA'', '' Ace Driver'', '' Alpine Racer'' and '' Tekken''. The year's video game console was the Game Boy, while the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis remained the home console. The year's highest-grossing arcade video games were ''Super Street Fighter II X'' (''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'') and ''Virtua Fighter'' in Japan, and ''Daytona USA'' and '' Mortal Kombat II'' in the United States, while the year's best-selling home video game worldwide was ''Donkey Kong Country''. Events * Nintendo proclaims "1994: The Year of the Cartridge". * Nintendo Australia Pty. Ltd, the Australian subsidiary of Nintendo Co., Ltd is established and opened by Hiroshi Yamauchi and effectively ends Mattel Australia's distribution of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebel Assault
''Star Wars: Rebel Assault'' is a rail shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts for DOS, Macintosh, Sega CD and 3DO Interactive Multiplayer systems, set in the Star Wars universe. Released in 1993, it is the first CD-ROM-only game to be published by LucasArts. The game's story focuses on a young pilot called Rookie One as they are trained by, and subsequently fights for, the Rebel Alliance in the Galactic Civil War. The game features digitized footage and music from the original movies (although most of the original footage is replaced by CGI rendered sequences), and full speech. ''Rebel Assault'' is one of the oldest titles to make use of extensive full-motion video (FMV) on the PC. The video was used to display pre-rendered 3D graphics that were far ahead of what a contemporary PC could render in real-time. Developers pre-rendered various environments and battles and the player flew through these environments. Gameplay The game consists of four mission types: t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
