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Stephen Clarke-Willson

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Stephen Clarke-Willson
NationalityAmerican
OccupationVideo game executive
EmployerArenaNet
Notable workDisney's Aladdin, Global Gladiators, Cool Spot, Disney’s Jungle Book, The 7th Guest, Color a Dinosaur
TitleStudio Technical Director

Stephen Clarke-Willson is an American video game executive. He served as the vice president of Virgin Interactive in the early 1990s.

Summary

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From 1990 to 1994, he was the vice president of Virgin Interactive. He was instrumental in Virgin's acquisition of Westwood Studios, after which he supervised budgets at Westwood.[1]

He supervised the production of titles for the SNES and the Sega Genesis like Disney's Aladdin, Global Gladiators, Cool Spot, and Disney’s Jungle Book; also The Seventh Guest for DOS. (He was also the producer of one of the most ridiculed games of all time, Color a Dinosaur.)

He published a SIGGRAPH paper, "Applying Game Design to Virtual Environments".[2]

Clarke-Willson now works at ArenaNet as the Studio Technical Director for Guild Wars.

References

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  1. ^ Clarke-Willson, Stephen. "Resume". Above the Garage Productions. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Applying Game Design to Virtual Environments" reprinted at Gamasutra
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