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Bob Bates is an American computer games designer. His number 1 promulgated back designs were them text adventures Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels and Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur for Infocom. The third game was never finished because Infocom was closed within 1989. Before long fallowing a prevent of Infocom, Bates & Mike Verdu founded Legend Entertainment to produce games in the Infocom tradition. Games designed by Bates for Legend include: Timequest, the Gateway series, Eric the Unready, Companions of Xanth, ''Callahan's Crosstime Saloon'' and the company's final game Unreal II: The Awakening.

Bates is too andy skinner of 2 books in gage project & development: Game Project: A Art & Business of Creating Games & ''A Game Creator's Market Option''.

Bates, Bob
Home page of the designer of such games as Sherlock, Arthur, Timequest, and Eric the Unready.

Adventure Collective Interview: Bob Bates
Subjects include how he got started, founding Legend, inspirations, people he has collaborated with, and the future of the adventure genre.






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