Bill Trost
Bill Trost is Lead Game Designer at Intrepid Studios.[1][2]
After over six years at Amazon Games, working with several awesome teams on quite a few exciting projects, especially New World, it’s time for me to embark on a new adventure! I’m happy to be able to say that I’m now the Lead Designer on Ashes of Creation at Intrepid Studios![3]
I’ve known Steven Sharif, the Creative Director on Ashes, for over seven years. We met as fellow gamers through mutual friends, and I vividly remember one of our early conversations where he laid out his detailed vision for this crazy ambitious MMO he wanted to build. I’ll admit, at the time I was skeptical. But I watched with growing excitement as the team Steven has built at Intrepid Studios gained steam, blasted through my skepticism, and started to deliver on his vision! The beautiful, deep world, the gamer-first attitude, and the openness of the team were all things I wanted to be a part of and so when the opportunity arose, I jumped at it. It’s also an opportunity to get to work with several awesome folks who I’ve known and worked with before, when years ago we built another world, that is still thriving today. So, in many ways it feels like a homecoming.[3]
Ashes is an ambitious game and there are tons of challenging problems to solve, but that is the fun part of game design. I can’t wait to be able to get lost in the world of Verra with all of you.[3]