Stephen Clarke-Willson
Stephen Clarke-Willson is a computer scientist who was a video game producer and executive producer in the early 1990s who produced a number of hit games.
Summary[]
From 1990 to 1994, he was the vice-president of Virgin Interactive. He was instrumental in Virgin's acquisition of Westwood Studios, after which he supervised budgets at Westwood.[1]
He supervised the production of titles for the SNES and the Sega Genesis like Disney's Aladdin, Global Gladiators, Cool Spot, and Disney’s Jungle Book; also The Seventh Guest for DOS. (He was also the producer of one of the most ridiculed games of all time, Color a Dinosaur.)
He published a SIGGRAPH paper, "Applying Game Design to Virtual Environments".[2]
Clarke-Willson now works at ArenaNet as the Studio Technical Director for Guild Wars.
Trivia[]
- Clarke-Willson arranged and performed "The Bare Necessities Rag" title music for Disney’s Jungle Book on Genesis and SNES.[citation needed]
- He composed the Adrenium Games theme which was arranged by Larry Kenton and performed by the musicians of the City of Prague Philharmonic and first heard in the video game Azurik: Rise of Perathia.
- Created the NES game Color a Dinosaur for his four-year-old son. It cost $30,000 to produce, was printed on the cheapest cartridges Nintendo offered, and was sold (he thinks) exclusively at Wal-Mart.[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Clarke-Willson, Stephen. "Resume". Above the Garage Productions. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
- ^ "Applying Game Design to Virtual Environments" reprinted at Gamasutra
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feIpb7RE90
External links[]
- [1] Interview from Sega-16.com
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