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Hey, Bill!  Good to see you here.

Perhaps some of you newcomers aren’t aware that AG’s logo and Aggie Award were designed by Bill as well. (The Aggie being based on the idol in our logo.) This site just wouldn’t be the same without him. 

It’s billt at amegames dot com.

The AG logo was fun to do and so was the little idol. Originally in the logo they were holding guns like Indy would, but then it was pointed out that adventure games general don’t have guns or shoot. So then I though ok I need to encompass the ideas of adventure games, so the torch represented discovery, gathering knowledge, and casting light on the path of mystery, which is what you do in adventure games. The machete represent the physical tool used to help get past the barrier or obstacle, like items in your inventory. And the idol of course is the goal, or as Hitchcock put it, the McGuffin, the players reward for solving the puzzle and vanquishing the antagonist. It encapsulates all that adventure games are about I think, which is why I really enjoyed making it.
As far as sending me art to evaluate I would gladly take a look and let you know what I think.
On AVS 2 I want to work on it after I do the Kickstarter game. Karsten of Crimson Cow and I have been negotiating some ideas for agreement on it, but I want to see how the Kickstarter project goes first before I know for sure if how we want to do AVS2 will work.
We are making an animated video for the kick starter pitch and it’s about 80% done. We pushed the deadline till after the New Year due to tax reasons.  If you have money in your company’s account at the end of the year the USA federal government counts it as profit and taxes it badly. Plus it will give Romero, our animator, some time to polish the animation.
I have been working with Owlkemy Labs in Boston, and Munky Fun in San Francisco doing freelance art, so that is how I make a living right now. But I am open to taking on more work. So if anyone wants me to do art for them just email me and we can talk. I may not be the best artist for some projects, so that’s why I like to discuss it first. But if the Kickstarter thing works out I’ll focus on AVS full time.

I would really love to see Autumn Moon team up with some of the old Lucas Arts writers. AM’s games look so great, and the interfaces were great, and they’re generally well designed, but those old Lucas writers had such unique voices, I’d love to see them work with AM. This past year has been amazing for great writers returning to the genre, but we’re still missing Mike Stemmle, Steve Purcell, Larry Ahern, and a bunch of others.

I think it’s good AM pushed their kickstarter back. This seems to be a really bad time for KS, with some fairly big projects struggling. I think January will be a better time. I swore I wouldn’t back any more adventure Kickstarters until a few of them came out, but I might have to make an exception for Bill.

Mr. Tiller, any chance of putting up more images of your work on Bounty Hunter? Loved that game. The shot you posted of the Bando Gora planet is killer!