Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Roberta Williams

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American designer Roberta Williams.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Roberta Williams

Roberta Williams is an American video game designer and writer, who co-founded Sierra On-Line with her husband, game developer Ken Williams. In 1980, her first game Mystery House became a modest commercial success, and is credited as the first graphic adventure game. She is also known for creating and maintaining the King's Quest series, as well as designing the full motion video game Phantasmagoria in 1995.

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.
My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.
Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well. — © Roberta Williams
Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.
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.
I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.
At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.
I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.
You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don't kind of do it. Don't dilly-dally around, because people really enjoy the genre, and they expect certain things.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A good story never dies.
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!
I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.
I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters. — © Roberta Williams
I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.
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