Grandia (video game)
Grandia is a role-playing video game, developed by Game Arts and published by ESP Software for the Sega Saturn console as the first game in their "Grandia" series. Released in Japan in 1997, the game was ported to the PlayStation in 1999, with an English version of the game appearing on the platform in North America in the following September by Sony Computer Entertainment, and in Europe in 2000 by Ubi Soft. The game was produced by much of the same staff who worked on the company's previous role-playing endeavor, the "Lunar" series, including producer Yoichi Miyagi and composer Noriyuki Iwadare.
Bill Williams (game designer)
Bill Williams's first published game was "Salmon Run" for the Atari 8-bit computers, published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1982. He then authored two titles for Synapse Software: "Necromancer" (1982) and "Alley Cat" (1983). "Alley Cat" was begun by another programmer, John Harris, who abandoned the project. Synapse ported "Salmon Run" to the VIC-20, publishing it in 1983 under the label Showcase Software. In 1984, Synapse published the stress reduction package "Relax", combining a sensor headband and mini-games providing biofeedback. The software was a collaboration between Williams and fellow Synapse game designer Kelly Jones (who wrote the 1983 Atari 8-bit game "Drelbs").