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Bill Van Buren
Biographical information
Occupation(s)	Producer Designer Lead Animator and Content lead[1] for Half-Life 2[2]

 

Bill Van Buren is a producer and designer working at Valve.

BiographyEdit

On Valve's official website, his function is described as follows: "Like a guest at the dinner party in Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel," Bill signed on for a short stint to help ship Half-Life and found himself unable to leave. Bills pre-Valve experience includes positions at Starwave and Microsoft where he was responsible for art and design direction, production management, and creating art, animation, and the odd bit of music."^[3]

Complete gameographyEdit

• Half-Life (1998)
• Half-Life: Opposing Force (1999)
• Half-Life: Blue Shift (2001)
• Counter-Strike: Source (2004)
• Half-Life 2 (2004)
• Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006)
• Portal (2007)
• Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)
• Left 4 Dead (2008)
• Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
• Alien Swarm (2010)
• Portal 2 (2011)

TriviaEdit

• His name appears in Half-Life as an Easter egg on a Sector D sign office.

ReferencesEdit

External linksEdit

• Bill Van Buren on MobyGames
• Bill Van Buren on MySpace
• Bill Van Buren on Facebook