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.
  • 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
  1. Clarke-Willson, Stephen. "Resume". Above the Garage Productions. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  2. "Applying Game Design to Virtual Environments" reprinted at Gamasutra
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feIpb7RE90
  • Interview from Sega-16.com


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