Bill Williams (game designer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bill Williams (game designer)

Game designer and programmer

Date of Birth: 29-May-1960

Place of Birth: Pontiac, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 28-May-1998

Profession: writer, engineer, computer scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Bill Williams (May 29, 1960 – May 28, 1998) was an American game designer, programmer, and author born with cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic disorder.
According to a medical encyclopedia Williams consulted when he was 12, people with cystic fibrosis weren't expected to live past the age of 13.Williams created a string of computer games from 1982 through 1990 for the Atari 8-bit family and then the Amiga which are admired for their imaginative design concepts, innovative sound and music, and skillful implementation.
Necromancer is a three stage game about a wizard growing and controlling an army of trees.
Scenarios in Alley Cat include stealthily drinking from the bowls of sleeping dogs, avoiding a sweeping broom to jump inside a fish bowl, and collecting ferns atop a bookcase protected by spiders.
Mind Walker, one of the first games released for the Amiga, places the player inside the head of a physics professor gone mad. Late in his career he worked on a licensed title for the Nintendo Entertainment System and another for the Super NES, but became frustrated with the game business and left to attend the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and write two theological works. Williams died from cystic fibrosis in 1998, at the age of 37.