Bill Davis

Bill Davis was the Creative Director at Sierra On-line between 1989 and 1992. Between 1993-1994 he took more direct positions working on various games.

Background
He is a Emmy-award winning producer/director with history in movies/television and advertising.

He was appointed Creative Director at Sierra in July 1989. Ken placed him in the position to bring someone from the film industry to Sierra. His job was to help make computer game technology more and more theatrical, more like real films, animated and live action He was major advocate of CD-Rom technology as it would allow the company to push towards a more realistic cinematic experience, allowing them to make the company's animation "fuller (more life-like), have more music and add things like speech."

In 1993 he moved on to head Red Dog Software, making titles such as Slater and Charlie Go Camping for Sierra.

Creative Director

 * Quest for Glory II: Trial By Fire (1990)
 * King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder (1990).
 * Oil's Well (1990)
 * Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (1991)
 * Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Ripprs (1991)
 * Mixed-Up Fairy Tales (1991)
 * Jones in the Fast Lane (1991)
 * Roberta Williams' Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1991)
 * Police Quest III: The Kindred (1991)
 * Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (1991)
 * Leisure Suity Larry I: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1991)
 * EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus (1991)
 * Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood (1991)
 * Hoyle Official Book of Games: Volume 3 (1991)
 * Castle of Dr. Brain (1992)
 * The Dagger of Amon Ra (1992)
 * The Island of Dr. Brain (1992)
 * Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1992).
 * Quest for Glory III: Wages of War (1992)
 * Quest for Glory I: So You Want To Be A Hero (1992)

Development

 * Lost Secret of the Rain Forest (1993, Quality Assurance)
 * Crazy Nick's Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge (1993, Director)
 * Pepper's Adventures in Time (1993, Original Concept)
 * Slater & Charlie Go Camping (1993, Writer, Directer, Producer, Art Direction, Character Design, and Gag Writer)
 * Roberta Williams' King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride (1994, Configuration Group)

Behind the scenes
Bill Davis is listed as "Creative Director" in various Sierra games was a reference to his role as the Sierra company's Creative Director.

Bill Davis also did a comic for Sierra's magazine called 'Interactive'.