Sid Shuman (he/him)January 19, 2023 Ken and Roberta Williams need little introduction among adventure game fans. The duo, who founded legendary developer Sierra On-Line in the earliest days of gaming, has been responsible for some of the genre’s most innovative, daring, and memorable titles. The two have been away from …

Fifty years after it first appeared on old mainframes, Sierra founders Ken and Roberta Williams have remade the landmark adventure game Colossal Cave. Ian Boudreau23 hours ago Colossal Cave is an adventure game that predates its own genre and  arguably everything we know as ‘the rules’ of modern game design. It began …

Colossal Cave, a VR remake of the classic text-based Colossal Cave Adventure, arrives next week on Meta Quest 2. Developed by Sierra On-Line co-founders Ken and Roberta Williams through Cygnus Entertainment, we interviewed these adventure game icons to learn more. I’m reminded of something Rand Miller once told me. “2014 is …

Right before her 20-plus year retirement, Roberta Williams could see how the video game industry was about to leave the adventure game genre behind. Set in motion in the 1970s by a text adventure game called Colossal Cave Adventure, the genre would never be the same after Roberta and her husband, …

‘Colossal Cave Adventure’ summoned the Sierra adventure game legend to her calling. Forty years later, she’s heeding its call again. When you are as successful as Roberta Williams, you can decide you are done making video games on land. Colossal Cave is the designer’s first game in 24 years, and her …

Reimagined by the legendary Roberta & Ken Williams, textured with Substance 3D Marcus: I’m Marcus Maximus Mera, and I’m the first artist to work with Ken and Roberta Williams on the Colossal Cave game. My background is a little different from most game designers. I come from high-end jewelry and apparel design …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDdih0tJ7iY Ken and Roberta Williams, cofounders of Sierra Online, join us to discuss their new game Colossal Cave: Reimagined by Roberta Williams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ODtx0vazY Come watch @Ducati Damo and @EDDocGamer take on the text based game Colossal Cave! This game is one of the first adventure computer games ever made, and the basis for the soon to be released @Colossal Cave Reimagined by Roberta Williams of Sierra Online Fame!! Check out colossalcave3d.com to …

Ken and Roberta Williams are the cofounders of Sierra Online, the company behind such classic computer games as King’s Quest, Space Quest, and Quest for Glory. Their latest project, Colossal Cave: Reimagined by Roberta Williams, is a remake of the genre-defining Colossal Cave Adventure by Will Crowther and Don Woods. “It’s a wonderful game, and I would …

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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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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。

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 …

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 …

No fear of Colossal failure: “If this game sinks, it ain’t gonna change our life at all.” SAN FRANCISCO—Legendary game programmer Ken Williams needed only a moment to chew on my question. He and equally famed game designer Roberta Williams had set themselves up for the query by recounting a principle from …

Ken and Roberta Williams are well known as the founders of Sierra On-Line, and now Cygnus Entertainment! They’ve been making a new game for some time now, and it has been revealed to be a remake of one of the first adventure games – Colossal Cave, by Will Crowther and …

Sierra On-Line founders Ken and Roberta Williams announce a VR reimagining of the influential early text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure. Ken and Roberta Williams are true living legends of game design. The husband-and-wife team founded what would become Sierra On-Line in 1979, which was responsible for many legendary adventure game …

Pioneering adventure game developers are working on a revival of Colossal Cave Adventure. After officially announcing their return to games last year, Sierra On-Line founders Ken and Roberta Williams are ready to show off their new project. Previously referred to as The Secret, it will be a “reimagining” of Colossal …

In this video we sit down with Ken & Roberta Williams in their house in Southern California for an exclusive chat about Sierra On-Line games including some of their biggest hits …

For Immediate Release February 22, 2022 Seattle, WA: Cygnus Entertainment, the new 3D and Virtual Reality game development company from Sierra On-Line founders Ken and Roberta Williams, announced they would release Colossal Cave 3D this fall, the couples’ first game in over 2 decades.  The legendary creators of iconic games such as King’s …

SIERRA ON-LINE’S KEN AND ROBERTA WILLIAMS TO RELEASE NEW GAME IN 2021 Ken and Roberta Williams, two legendary developers in the history of gaming, are set to release a new video game that the creators say will be “Sierra flavored,” in the same Vein as early successful franchises like Kings Quest and …