Kathleen Bober

Developer BIO

My start in the gaming industry began in 1991 with a phone call from Legend Entertainment designer Glen Dahlgren. Legend was only a couple of years old at that point, and Glen was working his way through the Virginia Yellow Pages looking for free-lance artists. I was reluctant at first since my specialty was airbrush illustration for corporate/commercial print materials (and I wasn’t a gamer), but I was intrigued by the technology so jumped in hoping my first spec piece would lead to bigger things. For the next twelve years, I worked on most of Legend’s titles – first as an illustrator, and later as a video/audio producer and casting director.

I moved from Washington, D.C. to Tucson, Arizona at the end of 1998, continuing to work as an independent producer on a variety of interactive projects. Some notable roles/projects have been: producer/project manager for Hasbro’s Trivial Pursuit® DVD Saturday Night Live Edition; sound manager on Atari’s Unreal® II: The Awakening, producer for Health Media Lab’s award-winning children’s strategy game Hungry Red Planet, producer/project manager of 23 interactive exhibits for the Indiana State Museum, and producer of a series of collectible CD-ROM baseball cards for Donruss Trading Card Company. More information about my company, Agora Multimedia, is available at www.agoramultimedia.com.

Websites

• Agora Multimedia -- A description of Kathleen Bober's company and a portfolio of her projects.

Games Credited

Unreal II: The Awakening (2003), Infogrames, Inc.
Hungry Red Planet (2002), Health Media Lab, Inc.
The Wheel of Time (1999), GT Interactive Software Corp.
John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure in Terror (1998),
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1997), Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Star Control 3 (1996), Accolade, Inc.
Mission Critical (1995), Legend Entertainment Company
Death Gate (1994), Legend Entertainment Company, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
Superhero League of Hoboken (1994), Legend Entertainment Company
Companions of Xanth (1993), Legend Entertainment Company
Eric the Unready (1993), Legend Entertainment Company
Frederik Pohl's Gateway (1992), Legend Entertainment Company
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break (1992), Legend Entertainment Company