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Dave Gilbert (born March 31, 1976) is an American designer of independent adventure games using Adventure Game Studio. He started out with home-made, freeware games, but went professional in 2006, founding Wadjet Eye Games and releasing ''The Shivah'' and ''The Blackwell Legacy'' commercially. ==Game design career== Gilbert's first adventure game was ''The Repossessor'' in 2001, an entry in the Reality-on-the-Norm series (a shared universe for adventure games started by Ben Croshaw). He went on to make three more RON titles, which gained a reputation for being among the better games in the series. In 2003, Gilbert released ''Bestowers of Eternity — Part One'', a game about a young woman who inherits a family ghost when her aunt dies in an insane asylum. It went on to win multiple awards in the 2003 AGS Awards.〔(AGS Awards 2003 ) (cited 20 February 2009)〕 In 2004, the AGS Forums organized the AGS Team Challenge, an informal contest where teams worked together to create an adventure game. Gilbert designed and wrote ''Two of a Kind'' for the contest. The game included two playable characters with different abilities and personalities, an unusual feature in an adventure game. This was one of only two games completed (the other was ''The Hamlet'') by the deadline, and both were declared co-winners. ''Two of a Kind'' received positive reviews, and won an AGS Award for Best Gameplay. In the summer of 2006, Gilbert produced ''The Shivah'', one of the first video games to star a rabbi, for MAGS, the monthly one-month AGS game contest (which it won). After its release, Gilbert decided to rework the freeware version, improving the graphics, adding new puzzles and voice acting, and releasing it as a commercial title. The game got good reviews and received considerable attention in the press,〔(''Gamasutra'', Are there any Jews in the Audience? )〕 〔(CNN.com coverage of ''The Shivah'' )〕 mainly because of its subject matter. It even earned some criticism in the Israeli press.〔(Scan of article in Maariv ) (translation to English ) (cited 31 December 2006)〕 ''The Shivah'' is sold through Manifesto Games on a non-exclusive basis. Turning his hobby into a professional career, Gilbert decided to become a full-time game designer. He founded Wadjet Eye Games to sell ''The Shivah'' and his forthcoming titles. A few months later, in December 2006, ''The Blackwell Legacy'' was released. This game was partially a much-improved remake of ''Bestowers of Eternity'' (revamping the earlier project which he considered to be over-ambitious 〔(Adventuregamers.com interview with Dave Gilbert )〕), but continued past the end of the earlier game, telling more of the story. ''The Blackwell Legacy'' is intended as the first installment of an episodic game. The second game, a prequel called ''Blackwell Unbound'', was released 4 September 2007. In February 2008, a publishing deal was announced between Wadjet Eye Games and PlayFirst.〔(PlayFirst Signs Acclaimed Developer Wadjet Eye Games to Publishing Deal ) PlayFirst Feb 18 2008 press release, via Reuters (cited 20 February 2009).〕 Under the agreement, Wadjet Eye Games would develop a casual adventure game for PlayFirst. The resulting game, ''Emerald City Confidential'', a noir story set in the world of Oz, was released on 19 February 2009.〔(PlayFirst Releases Emerald City Confidential, A Noir-Inspired Twist on the Book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ) PlayFirst Feb 19 2009 press release, via Yahoo! Finance (cited 20 February 2009)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dave Gilbert (game designer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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