Who is William Volk for Shib?
On Nov 26, 2021, Shytoshi Kusama (Shib’s Lead Developer) posted a Medium post to welcome William Volk to the Shib Games Project. As we know the first Shib Game, Shiba Eternity, just came out for testing and William Volk has been the lead game
consultant behind this game. William Volk first tweeted about the game back in
August 1st, 2022 below.
Yes. It’s happening. https://t.co/AXoW992hG0
— william_volk (@william_volk) August 2, 2022
From Shytoshi Kusama’s medium post, we found out about
William Volk’s impressive background in the gaming industry. William Volk started
his career in gaming at the age of 22 and helped to launch the computer game division of
a “board game company, Avalon Hill (Now owned by Hasbro)”. He help created the games, “Conflict 2500,”
“Voyager 1” and “Controller” and established quality assurance program at the
company. He co-founded Aegis Development
in 1995 and wrote the Mac adventure “The Pyramid of Peril” and “Mac
Challenger,”. Mac Challenger is a simulation of landing the space shuttle. William Volk then later went on to become the
VP of Technology at Activision. When
Activision went through a Chapter 11 in 1990 due to lost in a patent judgment,
it was William Volk who turned the company around. He help created popular
games such as “Return to Zork” while at Activision. In 1994, William Volk jointed Lightspan, an educational
game company. At Lightspan, he help created an efficient title product process,
moved the company from the collapsing Interactive Television Market on to Sony Playstation, and created 100+ CD-ROM educational games which lead to the IPO of
Lightspan.
In 2004, William Volk and Sherri Cuono co-founded Bonus
Mobile Entertainment, Inc. While at
Bonus Mobile, Volk and Cuono created the award-winning game, the Dozens, a
social game that allowed paying cards, in-game chats, and invites when phones
were still pretty low in resolution. Then, when the iPhone came along, Cuono
and Volk, at MyNuMo (later PlayScreen) created the very first iPhone game,
iWhack. Then Volk went on to co-create more games such as “ Pigs a Pop’n, Bag
Bigfoot, Word Carnivale, and Impossible Hex”.
Now, William Volk runs his own company the Deep State Games
and “he is an avid cyclist.”
Want to know how to create a great mobile casino/lottery game
from William Volk’s point of view? Please watch his lecture below.
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