Ken Williams

Name: Ken Williams

Born: October 30, 1954, in Evansville, Indiana

American game programmer and co-founder of On-Line Systems, which became Sierra On-Line. At Sierra, he and his wife Roberta Williams produced classic games such as King’s Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry. Together, Ken and Roberta were leading figures in the evolution of graphical adventure games.
He also acted as a programmer on many of Sierra’s first products, acting as the sole programmer of Sierra’s very first game Mystery House (1980), the first adventure game with graphics.

Significant publications