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Robert Bates, better known as '''Bob Bates''' (b. December 11 1953 ) is a U.S. Computer Games Designer , and writer of books about game design and development.


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His first published game designs were the two ''.

Bates is also the author of two books on game design and development: ''Game Design: The Art and Business of Creating Games'' and ''The Game Developer's Market Guide''.

In his 21-year career are included more than 35 games that have sold in total over 5 million units and won over 55 industry awards, including two Adventure Game of the
Year awards. He has worked on #1 titles for both the PC (Unreal 2) and for consoles ( Spiderman 3 ). He is currently Secretary of IGDA , co-founder of the Game Designers Workshop , and serves on the board of the Games Convention Developers Conference.


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