Richard Aronson

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Richard Aronson

About

Richard Aronson wrote:

Richard Aronson started designing games in 1978, when he built his first role playing game world. He was the first game master for over 200 players while running Los Angeles Mensa's Role Playing Gaming SIG for a dozen years. Friends persuaded him to leave his secure and lucrative job programming worldwide email systems and make computer games.

Richard has worked on almost 20 games in various capacities, including lead programmer, lead game designer, and voice actor, including three online RPGs for "The Sierra Network." For TSN Richard designed the new game facilitating features "Mute", "Whisper", "Upload", and "Dice Rolling".

He has written two plays, one novel, and is well known as the author of the highly plagiarized, er, reprinted RPG vignette "Eric and the Gazebo". Richard has written dozens of articles on game and world design, been published in "The Spell Book", "Re:Quests", "The Bridge World", and "The Mensa Bulletin" and has spoken on games at several World Science Fiction Conventions, Mensa Annual Gatherings, and numerous gaming conventions.

Richard currently works for General Dynamics making serious games in Sierra Vista, Arizona.

 

Richard Aronson wrote:

When I worked on my first Sierra Game as lead programmer (Conquests of the Longbow), I was expected to write the About Screen. I did something unheard of at the company: I listed every employee who worked in QA (with a couple of jokes) in the About Screen. This led swiftly to a meeting with Ken Williams, who asked me to justify that. "First of all, it will reward everyone who stuck it through to the game shipping in QA. Secondly, it doesn't cost us anything; text is cheap. Thirdly, maybe some QAers will want to buy a copy of the the game with their name in it to use as a gift. Finally, it will tell all our customers that we have a significant number of people trying to find bugs, which might make them a little friendlier to the phone line people when a customer's game crashes." Ken nodded, and said, "Okay, you convinced me."

I wonder how close I came to getting fired that day.

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Games by Richard Aronson

Title	Year	Credits
Hoyle Classic Card Games	1993	Bridge Design

Contributions by Richard Aronson

Title	Year	Credits
Hoyle Classic Card Games	1993	Bridge Design, Programming, Actor, Voice Talent
Hoyle Bridge	1996	Programming
Quest for Glory I: So You Want to be A Hero	1992	Programming
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood	1991	Lead Programmer
King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones	2002	Voiceovers (Count Caldaur, Cedric)
Lost Secret of the Rainforest	1993	Acting / Voiceovers
The Dagger of Amon Ra	1992	Voiceovers (Rameses Najeer)
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus	1991	Voiceovers (Superfluous)
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!	1990	Voiceovers (Cedric the Owl)

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