Robert Vieira

Bob Vieira (510 654 2461) has worked on games since 1982. He is currently working on SIMS 2 for Maxis / EA.

He began in games when Peter Niday brought him into Atari to fix some SFX on the weekend. Then George Kisch and Condon Brown made him a consultant. Bob worked on a number of games for consoles (2600, 5200, ColecoVision) as well as coin-op conversions, where he transcribed music and SFX. Atari work includes: 5200 Baseball (Best Sports Game of 1984), Crystal Castles, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Millipede, Dumbo, Zoo Keeper, Gremlins, Road Runner, The Last Starfighter, The A-Team, Mario Brothers, Moon Patrol, others.

During the rest of the 1980s, Bob worked as an independent contractor/consultant and contributed interactive design, music, and sound effects to a number of titles for Epyx on C64 (Summer Games II, Super Cycle, Movie Monster Game, Barbie, others), Apple II (Street Sports Baseball, others), IBM (California Games, others), Lynx (ElectroCop, Gates of Zendocon, Blue Lightening, Chip's Challenge, California Games, Gauntlet, WarBirds, Batman Returns, others), and stand-alone talking toys (Toytronics). In 1992, RJ Mical called him to work for NTG/3DO. Bob was intimately involved in empolyee recruitment (found Phil Burk, without whom 3DO's audio capabilities would not have become a reality) and with the design of system sound tools. His work on games in this period included: RoadRace, Escape from Monster Manor (music, sfx, voice-over scripts, and intro video co-direction), Jurassic Park, Station Invasion (designed music trivia game, researched and wrote all music history voice-overs), Killing Time (associate producer, de facto co-director during the last 6 months of development, influenced all aspects of design, all music/sfx, wrote the manual, designed world map, named all levels).

Since 1997, Bob has been included in Who's Who in Entertainment and has been self-employed (Arieiv Productions).

Recent Projects: Wrote dialog for leading adventure game (Diablo II by Blizzard North); Did scripting, interactive design, audio production and activity design for many educational product prototypes (Leapfrog); Designed training/simulation program for Shell Oil Company in Amsterdam; Designed sounds for new computer-based telephony company (Shoreline Teleworks); Designed webpages with GoLive’s CyberStudio; Composer for current (Spring 2002) "O" and "Q" alphabet segments for TV’s Sesame Street; Composed for Shakespeare at the Beach’s production of Tempest, and The Lawrence Pech Dance Company’s concert at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Theater; Script consultant and stage director for Joanne Green’s upcoming one-woman show at Z-Space; above-mentioned work on SIMS 2.

Bob is graduating with a Ph.D. in history from UC Berkeley in Spring 2004 (a task delayed by years in the games industry). The Broadway musical he is writing with NYC collaborator Jennifer Piech (from B'way's Titanic) will have a reading in NYC in 2004; the Act One reading of 2002 was a very helpful and educational event. Pixar continues to be a target of his job applications because they do such wonderful work.