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Full Name	William David Volk
Occupation	Video Game Developer
Date Of Birth	Dec 16, 1956(1956-12-16)
Age	68
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Sagittarius

William David Volk Biography

William David Volk is one of the most popular and richest Video Game Developer who was born on December 16, 1956 in New York, United States. William David Volk (born December 16 1956) in New York City, New York is a publisher and developer of mobile games. Volk is also the chief futurist for Forward Reality, a VR publisher.

Volk has had a long-standing relationship with Activison in the development of his (M.A.D.E) Game Engine, and was the technical producer for the game of 1992 The Leather Goddesses from Phobos 2. Gas Pump Girls Meet the Pulsating Inconvenience of Planet X!, Return to Zork, The Manhole and Rodney’s Funscreen, among other adventure games.

In November 2015 Volk became the CMO of Tricerat, an enterprise software company, while still being a member of PlayScreen, LLC. Volk continued to consult with Tricerat and was the project manager of the Print Reliably app just released.

In 1988, he was transferred to Activison which was where he became director of Technology and was promoted to Director of Technology in the year 1991. At Activision He was the head of the team responsible for the production of the first CD-ROM entertainment title, The Manhole (based on the Cyan Hypercard game title). Volk invented the game engine used in Return to Zork as well as the majority of the interface design for the player. While working at Activision the company, he developed the concept and received U.S. Patent

5,095,509 on March 10, 1992, which allowed IBM personal computers reproduce

digitally sampled sound.

William David Volk Net Worth

William David Volk is one of the richest Video Game Developer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William David Volk 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Volk completed his studies at his time at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Astronomy. He then completed master’s studies with a focus on Physics as well as Computer Engineering at The University of New Hampshire. Then he moved to Avalon Hill Game Co. where he established the quality assurance division of Avalon Hill’s Microcomputer Game Division at Avalon Hill. Between 1979 and 1982, he designed his”games “Conflict 2500”, “Voyager 1” and “Controller”

He left the company in 1983. resigned from Avalon Hill Game Co. and was hired with Rising Star where he created the “ValDraw CAD” (computer aided drawing) program for QX10 and Z80 personal computers. Later, he was appointed Vice Director for Development for Aegis Development where he authored several early Mac gaming titles such as “The Pyramid of Peril” and “Mac Challenger” in 1984-1985. In the same time frame, Volk also created the “Draw” and “Draw Plus” drawing programs that were developed for Commodore Amiga.

While at BME he also created the ringtone brand known as Rude Tones. PlayScreen LLC acquired the assets of MyNuMo (a company co-founded my Volk with Sherri Cuono in 2006) in Nov. 2010. Volk is credited with creating the concept for iWhack, the first iPhone game released (July 2007). Volk co- designed several games at MyNuMo including Pigs A Pop’N, and Bailout Bonanza. Volk is currently the Chief Futurist of Forward Reality, LLC.

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William Ranked on the list of most popular Video Game Developer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. William David Volk celebrates birthday on December 16 of every year.