Hal Barwood

Hal Barwood is an American game designer and game producer best known for his work on games based on the Indiana Jones license.

Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, he studied art at Brown University and later attended the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television, where he met and became friends with George Lucas.

His film credits include writing on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (for which he was not publicly credited) and producing and co-writing "Dragonslayer". cite web
title = Hal Credits
url = http://www.finitearts.com/Pages/creditpage.html
publisher = Hal Barwood / Finite Arts
accessdate=2008-03-27]

He later worked as a script writer, producer and director for LucasArts. He's probably best known as the project leader and co-designer of the vgy|1992 adventure game "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis". In August 1999, "PC Gamer" magazine designated him as one of the top 25 game designers in the United States.cite web
title = Interview with Hal Barwood
url = http://www.therainfarm.com/paradigm4/Barwood_Interview.html
publisher = Rain Farm Press
author = Paul Fuhr
accessdate = 2008-03-27]

References

External links

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* [http://www.finitearts.com/ Hal Barwood's homepage]
* [http://www.therainfarm.com/paradigm4/ 2007 Interview with Paradigm (Under Stage & Screen)]
* [http://www.ninjadodo.net/temp/spector/04%20-%20hal_barwood.mov Video interview with Warren Spector (University of Texas)]