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Bill Roper (born March 27, 1965) is an American video game designer and producer. He is a co-founder and the current Chief Creative Officer at AuthorDigital / Arcadia Games. Previously, he was Chief Creative Officer at Improbable.
Nov 22, 2023 · From 1994 to 2003, Bill worked directly on numerous million-selling games in varied producer positions and played a key role in the success of the Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo series. Roper also served as a producer on several Macintosh versions of these games and worked as a member of the project oversight teams for the console versions of ...
May 15, 2009 · Game development veteran Bill Roper played a key role in the rise of the seminal Warcraft and Diablo series throughout the 1990s, and then co-founded eventually ill-fated Hellgate developer Flagship Studios. Now at Cryptic Studios, he talks in-depth in a major Gamasutra retrospective interview.
Bill is an actor, writer, producer, director, and streamer, and appears weekly on the Rolling in the Netherdeep on the Severed Studios channel on Twitch. He has written, directed, and been voice-over talent on numerous video games including the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises for over 30 years.
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- Actor, Producer, Writer
Bill Roper is a game designer and producer whose credits include games such as Warcraft: Orcs and Humans (1994), Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995), Diablo (1996), Starcraft (1998), Starcraft: Brood War (1998), Diablo II (2000), Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (2001), Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002), Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (2003
Bill Roper has been credited on games developed by the following companies: Blizzard Entertainment Inc., Blizzard North, Cyberlore Studios, Inc., Ping0, LLC, Flagship Studios, Saffire, Inc, Double Fine Productions, Inc., Junction Point Studios Inc., DreamRift, Mass Media Games, Inc., Cryptic Studios...
Mar 11, 2009 · Late last year, Atari-owned Cryptic Studios parachuted Roper in as design director and executive producer for its new superhero MMO, Champions Online. Due for release this spring, the game...
