William 'Bill' Lane

I’m Bill and I lead the design team here at FUSE. I’m passionate about experience-led design, where we deliberately influence what players think, feel and do to bring them wonderful gaming experiences. An inherently collaborative approach, this empowers all crafts to pull in the same direction. My gaming passions, whether I’m making or playing, are game feel and fantasy immersion. I love to make wonderful toys for players to enjoy, particularly ones that deliver intuitive physically-based fun, within a core fantasy that immerses players and brings out intense emotional highs and lows. I’m thrilled to be working at FUSE alongside such talented folks :D

_Favourite Game

Halo: Combat Evolved

_Favourite Book

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

_Currently Learning

Chopin's Études (I'll be learning these forever!)

Questions & Answers

Earliest gaming memory?

Answer

Obsessively playing Galaxian on a vintage cocktail table coin-op.

What was the game that triggered you looking at games as a career?

Answer

Burnout 2

What did you study at School or Uni that you feel was valuable for a career in games?

Answer

I studied Engineering at university - a very broad degree that covered all the sub-disciplines (e.g. chemical, civil, aeronautical) to some degree. Having a traditional scientific background, rather than game dev or computer science, gave me a broad knowledge base and appreciation for scientific rigour that has proven invaluable. I wish more folks with a classical science degree got into design!

Game that has inspired you the most?

Answer

Deus Ex

What is the first game you worked on?

Answer

Battlefield 2

Games you’re the proudest to have worked on?

Answer

NFS Hot Pursuit, Battlefront II, NFS Unbound

If you weren’t making games?

Answer

I’d be an entomologist or a pastry chef. Or both!

Top 3 games of all time?

Answer

#1 - Halo: Combat Evolved #2 - Dark Souls #3 - NieR:Automata

Hardest Game Boss?

Answer

Owl (Father) from Sekiro. What a fight!

_TIME REMAINING