Diablo II

Eric J. Sexton is a computer game developer, an artist and animator on the popular Diablo games. Sexton was born in 1970 in Cupertino, California, the older of two children to Patricia K. Bolen and Thomas H. Sexton, both of whom were X-ray technicians for Kaiser Hospital. He attended Lincoln High School but did not graduate. In 1995, he started in the game industry at Condor Inc. as an artist and animator, working on NFL Quarterback Club II for... the Game Boy and Game Gear. In late 1996 Condor was purchased by Davidson & Associates, and changed its name to Blizzard North. He was an artist and animator on Diablo, animating all of the heroes and many of the monsters, creating many of the story-based quests, and co-creating the "Random Item System." He also did art, animation, and design for Diablo II, modeling and animating many of the characters, as well as designing quests, and character and monster skills. He was lead designer for the game's "Random Name System" which included both items and monsters. Sexton married in 1990, but divorced in 2002.
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Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce and is currently a subsidiary of American company Activision Blizzard, which... itself is owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Based in Irvine, California, the company originally concentrated primarily on the creation of game ports for other studios before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with the development of games like Rock n' Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings. In 1994 the company became Blizzard Entertainment Inc before being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates and later by Vivendi. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard shipped their breakthrough hit Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. Blizzard went on to create several successful video games, including the Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo series, and the MMORPG World of Warcraft.
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Sierra Entertainment Inc. was an American video-game developer and publisher founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems by Ken and Roberta Williams. Based in Oakhurst, California, the company was last owned by Activision, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard. Sierra is best known today for its multiple... lines of seminal graphic adventure games started in the 1980s, many of which proved influential in the history of video games. The Sierra label was absorbed by its parent company. Some franchises that were published by Sierra will be published by Activision, which also announced in 2008 that it may sell the Sierra brand. Sierra Entertainment was founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems in Simi Valley, California, by Ken and Roberta Williams. Ken Williams, a programmer for IBM, bought an Apple II microcomputer with which he planned to use to develop a FORTRAN compiler for the Apple II. At the time, his wife Roberta Williams was playing text adventure games on the Apple II. Dissatisfied with the text-only format, she realized that the graphics display capability of the Apple II could enhance the adventure gaming experience.
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