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Robert Bates (born December 11, 1953), better known as Bob Bates, is a U.S. computer games designer, and writer of books about game design and development.

Overview

His first published game designs were the two interactive fiction titles Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels and Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur for Infocom. A third game was never finished because Infocom was closed in 1989. Soon after the end of Infocom, Bates and 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 also the author of two books on game design and development: Game Design: The Art and Business of Creating Games and The Game Developer's Market Guide.

In his 21-year career are included more than 35 games that have sold in total over 5 million units and won over 55 industry awards, including two Adventure Game of the Year awards. He has worked on #1 titles for both the PC (Unreal 2) and for consoles (Spider-Man 3). He is currently Secretary of IGDA, co-founder of the Game Designers Workshop, and serves on the board of the Games Convention Developers Conference.

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