Roberta Williams Quotes

United States, Designer
February 16, 1953

Roberta Williams is an American video game designer, writer, and a co-founder of Sierra On-Line (later known as Sierra Entertainment), who developed her first game while living in Simi Valley, California. She is most famous for her work in the field of graphic adventure games with titles such as Mystery House, the King's Quest series, and Phantasmagoria. She is married to Ken Williams and retired from her career in 1999. Roberta Williams is one of the most influential PC game designers of the 1980s and 1990s, and has been credited with creating the graphic adventure genre.

Also known as Video Game Developer, Writer

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

Roberta Williams
- Though
- Exceed
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.

Roberta Williams

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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- Female
- Bringing
- Pivotal
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.

Roberta Williams
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.

Roberta Williams
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.

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- People
- Kind
- Expect
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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- Computer
- Nobody
- Keeping
I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

Roberta Williams

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.

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

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

Roberta Williams
A good story never dies.

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

Roberta Williams

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.

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- Weird
- Project
- Addiction
I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

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

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