The producer of joins Disney, use well-known roles to delvelop game
07/31/2011 – 5:53 pm
Former Blizzard, Flagship, and Cryptic lead, the producer of Diablo Bill Roper,has been hired as the new vice president of Disney Interactive Media Group’s Marvel franchise, and will oversee the development of future Marvel Comics-based games.
After Flagship Studios: the developer of Hellgate went bankrupt, he moved on to Cryptic Games as the Chief Creative Officer before stepping down in October 2010. After several months of rest, in February of this year, he announced through an interview that he was looking for new opportunities, and would ready go anywhere while if he got the opportunities.
Disney Interactive’s senior vice president and general manager of core games says “We are pleased to have Bill join our team, With 17 years of experience in the worldwide gaming industry, we are confident that Bill has the creative vision necessary to help guide the next wave of development and product for DIMG’s Marvel Games”.
Bill Roper said he was proud to be a member of Marvel. There are many well-known game character in Marvel and he was ready to reflect these roles to video games.
The producer of Diablo1 and 2 of the former Blizzard vice president Bill Robert, has left Blizzard in 2003. After that, he co-founded Flagship Studios and developed Hellgate: London and Mythos. After his company closed down operation, he joined Cryptic Studios, participated on development of Champions Online and Star Trek Online.
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