Bill Tiller
| Bill Tiller | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 1, 1967 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer, writer, artist |
Bill Tiller is an American computer game designer, writer, and artist. At LucasArts, he was the lead artist and art director of The Dig,[1] the lead background artist on The Curse of Monkey Island,[2] and the lead artist on Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. He created the games A Vampyre Story and Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island for Autumn Moon Entertainment, a studio he co-founded with Mike Kirchoff in 2002. He worked as a game designer on the iOS title Perils of Man.
Career
Bill Tiller was hired by LucasArts adventure games by Colette Michaud in 1992 as an animator for Brian Moriarty's version of The Dig. He stayed with the project through all of its incarnations, and was ultimately the lead artist and art director on the final version of the game. He was the lead background artist of The Curse of Monkey Island, and the lead artist of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. In 2001, he left LucasArts to work at ArenaNet.[3]
In 2002,[4] co-founded Autumn Moon Entertainment to develop his own adventure games.[5] Their first release was A Vampyre Story in 2008, followed by Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island in 2009. Due to financial issues with the publisher of the Autumn Moon games, Crimson Cow, Tiller has maintained a freelance career in the industry. His royalty checks from his work on Snuggle Truck has allowed Tiller to keep working on his own adventure games. Before the success of Snuggle Truck, Tiller served as the art director for MunkyFun, which is itself a studio founded by a number of ex-LucasArts developers.[6] In 2013, Tiller started a crowdfunding effort for an episodic, independent prequel to the A Vampyre Story saga called A Vampyre Story: Year One. The Kickstarter campaign was unsuccessful, however, the game remains in development.[7] In 2013, Tiller collaborated with IF Games in Switzerland as one of the game designers for the 3D adventure Perils of Man, which saw release in 2014. In August 2014, Bill Tiller began a Kickstarter campaign for a spin-off of Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island titled Duke Grabowski: Mighty Swashbuckler!.[8]
Games
- 1993 Star Wars: Rebel Assault, artist (LucasArts)
- 1994 Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, artist (LucasArts)
- 1994 Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures, artist (LucasArts)
- 1995 Full Throttle, artist (LucasArts)
- 1995 The Dig, lead artist, art director (LucasArts)
- 1997 Outlaws, artist (LucasArts)
- 1997 The Curse of Monkey Island, lead background artist (LucasArts)
- 1999 Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, lead artist (LucasArts)
- 2008 A Vampyre Story, project leader, artist, writer (Autumn Moon Entertainment)
- 2009 Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island, project leader, artist, writer (Autumn Moon Entertainment)
- 2011 Snuggle Truck, artist (Owlchemy Labs)
- 2013 Jack Lumber, artist (Owlchemy Labs)
- 2014 Perils of Man, game designer(IF Games)
References
- ↑ "LucasArts Secret History: The Dig". The International House of Mojo. March 10, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
- ↑ "Bill Tiller at Autumn Moon Entertainment". The International House of Mojo. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
- ↑ "Bill Tiller leaves LEC". The International House of Mojo. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
- ↑ "Interview with Mike Kirchoff". Adventure Gamers. July 9, 2004. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ "Bill Tiller – A Vampyre Story interview". Adventure Gamers. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
- ↑ "LucasArts vet turns to Kickstarter to revive a 'Vampyre Story'". Los Angeles Times. June 21, 2013. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
- ↑ "Bill shrugs off Kickstarter outcome, sells kidney, pushes on". The International House of Mojo. July 6, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
- ↑ "Bill Tiller's Duke Grabowski, Mighty Swashbuckler! sets sail on Kickstarter". Adventure Gamers. August 8, 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-10.