Gamer Girls Is An Important Reminder That There Are Some Things GamerGate Can’t Take Away From Us
Gamer Girls: 25 Women Who Built The Industry reminds us that women aren’t defined by the abuse they receive. As feels inevitable with any conversation around the subject, Gamer Girls: 25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry opens on GamerGate. In the book’s first few pages, author and Insomniac writer Mary Kenney, who has worked on Spider-Man: […]
Colossal Cave – The Interview
When thinking about the pioneers of gaming, who comes to mind? What games can you think about that truly helped the games of today? Games always had to start with an idea before they can become a reality. But sometimes those ideas can become ahead of their time and have a following that one can […]
Sierra Founders Ken & Roberta Williams Talk About Their Past (And Future) In Video Games
In 1979, husband-and-wife team Ken and Roberta Williams founded a small company that would later become known as Sierra. It would play an enormous role in the development of some of the most beloved video game series of all time. With Ken overseeing business operations, Roberta spent the 1980s helping create adventure game classics like […]
Why Roberta Williams Is Re-embarking on a Colossal Cave Adventure in 2022
From 70s text-based adventure to a fully visualized, VR spelunking trip. Even after she retired from making adventure games, Sierra On-Line co-founder Roberta Williams never stopped having adventures. After a legendary career as a pioneer of the adventure genre, creating games like King’s Quest, Mystery House, Phantasmagoria, and many more, Williams has spent her retirement […]
Roberta and Ken Williams are back after 25 years with ‘Colossal Cave 3D Adventure’
It’s a full, VR-focused reimagining of the classic text adventure. Roberta and Ken Williams are back. After 25 years out of the video game industry, the legendary founders of Sierra On-Line are working on a new project with an old twist – they’re rebuilding the classic text-based game Colossal Cave Adventure as a 3D experience with a […]
Sierra founders got ‘bored’ in lockdown so they’re making their first new game in more than 20 years
Ken and Roberta Williams, the founders of pioneering game development studio Sierra Online, are getting back into the game (so to speak) with a graphical remake of the groundbreaking text adventure Colossal Cave. Colossal Cave 3D is not a reboot of an old Sierra game, which some followers expected after the project was first teased last […]
Video game history is colliding: Sierra founders are bringing a seminal text adventure game to VR
Ken and Roberta Williams, two of the most influential figures in video game history, are bringing the original 1976 text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure to virtual reality, as well as Mac and Windows PC. It sounds pretty straightforward when I put it like that, right? And then I remind you that the game in question looked like this: And […]
『Colossal Cave 3D Adventure』“アドベンチャーゲーム”の語源となった作品を伝説的開発者のロバータ＆ケン・ウィリアムズ夫妻が3D＆VR化【GDC 2022】
Cygnus Entertainmentが開発中のアドベンチャーゲーム『Colossal Cave 3D Adventure』を体験してきたので、その内容をお伝えしよう。
Why Roberta Williams came out of retirement | Ken & Roberta Williams interview pt. 1
For some reason, they let me interview the one and only Ken and Roberta Williams, founders of Cygnus Entertainment and a little-known start-up from the 80s called Sierra On-Line. In this part, Roberta talks about why she came back to the games industry after the personal and professional disappointment of King’s Quest 8. Join the […]
Two classic video game pioneers plan a comeback
Making a comeback: Roberta Williams, whose pioneering design work helped popularize adventure games like King’s Quest in the 1980s through a company she co-founded with husband Ken. Driving the news: Roberta and Ken are working with a team of more than a dozen developers to remake a 1970s classic that inspired them, Colossal Cave Adventure. The new Colossal Cave 3D is […]
