Bill Roper — one of the forces behind Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo — defected to Cryptic Studios back in 2008 to work on Champions Online and Star Trek. He has recently stated that he’s leaving Cryptic, but hasn’t given specifics.
Bill Roper — one of the forces behind Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo — defected to Cryptic Studios back in 2008 to work on Champions Online and Star Trek. He has recently stated that he’s leaving Cryptic, but hasn’t given specifics.
cheese
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 11:32 PMThis story seems to leave out his stellar track record with Flagship Studios and Hellgate London. The interview with him during the final days of that company was one of the most memorable I have ever read.
Reading this article it almost seems as if he went from working for Blizzard to working at Cryptic Studios (conveniently ignoring his time with Flaship Studios).
Collins
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 1:46 AMSounds interesting Care to post it for the rest of us?
cheese
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 9:02 PMI’m not sure what Kotaku’s policy on linking other websites is but I’ll give it a go.
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3170652
If they don’t let me do that, just google: “bill roper sleep office floor,” and you will find it.
Collins
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 4:31 PMCheers for that!