William Anderson
aka:
Will Anderson,
Bill Anderson
Moby ID: 219926
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William Anderson has been a game developer, product manager and senior designer for well over two decades now, having worked in-house for many of the top developers and publishers in the world. A US and international business consultant, designer, writer and ghost writer for many years now, contributing game development articles to industry books and web sites.
William first started designing and programming video games back in the 1980's, but got his big break in game development when employed by Virgin Games in Irvine, CA. His first published title out of Virgin was Global Gladiators for the Sega Genesis, which became Sega's 3rd Party Game of the Year. From there he would go on to design the play for Cool Spot, Jungle Book and the block-buster Aladdin, which to date holds the record for the shortest development time for a hit title, that being less than 4 months and the most sales on a single platform, over 4-million units worldwide. Later William would go on to lead the game play development on Abes Oddysee and then over to Capcom to lead the game play design for Maximo Ghost to Glory. Just to name a few of his past hit productions.
Credited on 18 games
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| Descendants (2015, Android) | Testers |
| Frozen: Free Fall - Snowball Fight (2015, Windows) | Quality Assurance Testers |
| Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (2008, Wii) | Designer |
| Hard Rock Casino (2006, PlayStation 2) | Assistant Producer |
| Daxter (2006, PSP) | Additional Design |
| Army Men: Sarge's War (2004, Xbox) | Design |
| Maximo: Ghosts to Glory (2001, PlayStation 2) | Senior Game Designer |
| Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996, Nintendo 64) | Silicon Graphics Inc. |
| Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings (1995, Genesis) | Game Play Designed by |
| The Jungle Book (1994, Game Gear) | Original Design Concept by |
| Disney's The Jungle Book (1994, NES) | Special Thanks to |
| Disney's The Jungle Book (1994, Genesis) | Game Design |
| Disney's The Jungle Book (1994, SNES) | Additional Map Design |
| Disney's Aladdin (1993, Genesis) | Levels Design by |
| Mick & Mack as the Global Gladiators (1993, Amiga) | Graphics by |
| Cool Spot (1993, Genesis) | Level Design |
| The Terminator (1993, SEGA CD) | Levels by |
| Double Dragon (1993, Game Gear) | Special Thanks |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 9 games with David Bishop
- 8 games with Michael Francis Dietz
- 8 games with Shawn McLean
- 7 games with David Perry
- 7 games with Erik Yeo
- 7 games with Bijan Shaheer
- 7 games with Edward Schofield
- 7 games with Clark Sorensen
- 7 games with Tommy Tallarico
- 7 games with Stephen Clarke-Willson
Companies
- 9 games with Virgin Interactive...
- 6 games with Avalon Interactive
- 3 games with Eurocom Developments Ltd
- 3 games with Bergsala AB
- 2 games with Virgin Interactive...
- 2 games with FarSight Technologies Inc.
- 2 games with Tectoy S.A.
- 2 games with Crave Entertainment, Inc.
- 1 game with Tommy Tallarico Studios, Inc.
- 1 game with Capcom Studio 8, Inc.
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