Bill James
Moby ID: 76171
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Graduating from UCSD in 1991, Bill worked for a couple years for SAIC developing an anti-ballistic missile modeling system for the Star Wars project. While working there, Bill and college friend Mark Botta purchased a Sega Genesis development kit from someone online who'd reverse engineered the kit.
Bill (and Mark) soon got jobs at BlueSky Software (1994), where Bill worked on game simulators, pitch physics, and UI screens for the World Series Baseball series. BlueSky made an unsuccessful attempt to move on to the Saturn and Playstation and, after being purchased by Titus Interactive, the company disbanded in 2000.
Bill moved on to Sony Online Entertainment, creating 2 game engines and several titles for their Web Games division before moving to the EverQuest development team. Bill spent 4 years on EverQuest, completing work on 7 expansions.
In October 2007, Bill left the game industry for Qualcomm, where he works in web applications development.
Credited on 18 games
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| The Saboteur (2009, PlayStation 3) | The Saboteur Team Thanks |
| The Saboteur (2009, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| EverQuest: Prophecy of Ro (2006, Windows) | Programmers |
| EverQuest: Depths of Darkhollow (2005, Windows) | Programmers |
| EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath (2005, Windows) | Programmers |
| EverQuest: Omens of War (2004, Windows) | Programmers |
| EverQuest: Gates of Discord (2004, Windows) | Programmers |
| EverQuest: Lost Dungeons of Norrath (2003, Windows) | Programmers |
| EverQuest (2003, Macintosh) | Programmers |
| EverQuest: The Legacy of Ykesha (2003, Windows) | Programmers |
| EverQuest: The Planes of Power (2002, Windows) | Programmers |
| Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '98 (1997, Windows) | The Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '98 Season team would like to give special thanks to the following people and organizations who helped make this product happen |
| World Series Baseball 98 (1997, Genesis) | Programmers |
| Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '96 Season (1996, Windows 3.x) | The Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '96 Season team would like to give special thanks to the following people and organizations who helped make this product happen |
| World Series Baseball '96 (1996, Genesis) | Programmers |
| World Series Baseball '95 (1995, Genesis) | Programmers |
| World Series Baseball starring Deion Sanders (1995, SEGA 32X) | Programmers |
| Front Page Sports: Baseball '94 (1994, DOS) | Special Thanks |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 9 games with Anthony Gervais
- 9 games with Gordon Dapkus
- 9 games with Michael Hardman
- 9 games with Loren G. Skeels
- 9 games with Allen Bond
- 9 games with Alan Krause
- 9 games with Neil Christmas
- 9 games with Ryan Robinson
- 9 games with Carly Towle
- 9 games with Jonathan Caraker
Companies
- 9 games with Daybreak Game Company LLC
- 4 games with SEGA of America, Inc.
- 4 games with BlueSky Software, Inc.
- 3 games with Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
- 3 games with Dynamix, Inc.
- 3 games with Ubisoft Entertainment SA
- 2 games with XPEC Entertainment Inc.
- 2 games with Technicolor Interactive Services
- 2 games with Ripple Effect Studios
- 2 games with Rhythm & Hues Studios
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