Doug Bell (game designer)

Douglas Andrew Bell
Born (1961-02-24) February 24, 1961 (age 63)
Alma materUniversity of California, Irvine
Occupation(s)Video game designer
Game programmer
Known forDungeon Master

Douglas Andrew Bell (born February 24, 1961[1]) is a video game developer, best known for his role as the designer and programmer for the Dungeon Master series from San Diego studio FTL Games.[2]

Career

Doug Bell worked as director, lead designer and developer for Dungeon Master. But before he joined in 1983 FTL Games, the game was titled Crystal Dragon, and developed together with Andy Jaros (Artwork) in their development studio PVC Dragon for the 8-bit Apple II computer. Then after the merger, the game was rescheduled to be launched after the release, and for the target platform of the 16-bit Atari ST computer, which offered more possibilities.[3] Bell was the lead developer and technical director of FTL from 1986 until 1995, the company ceased operations in 1996.[citation needed]

Credits

Games

Other commercial software

References

  1. ^ Bell, Doug. "Profile for Doug Bell". Amazon. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  2. ^ Stahl, Edwin Robert (2002). "Exploring the Virtual Frontier: The Evolution of Narrative Form in Immersive Video Games" (PDF). St Louis University. p. 45. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-06-26. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  3. ^ McFerran, Damien (2006). "The Making of Dungeon Master" (PDF). Issue 34. Retro Gamer Magazine. pp. 30–31. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Defiance game credits". Moby Games.
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