Michael Cranford is a game designer and game programmer. He is most well known as the designer and programmer of 1985's The Bard's Tale and 1986's The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight computer role-playing games published by Interplay Productions. He also programmed the Apple version of Donkey Kong, the Commodore 64 version of Super Zaxxon, as well as Maze Master (a spiritual predecessor of The Bard's Tale). His last computer game was Centauri ...
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Michael Cranford is a game designer and game programmer. He is most well known as the designer and programmer of 1985's The Bard's Tale and 1986's The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight computer role-playing games published by Interplay Productions. He also programmed the Apple version of Donkey Kong, the Commodore 64 version of Super Zaxxon, as well as Maze Master (a spiritual predecessor of The Bard's Tale). His last computer game was Centauri Alliance for Brøderbund in 1990.
He left the video game industry to pursue a career more in line with his religious beliefs, and thus was not involved in the creation of 1988's The Bard's Tale III.
He was a Professor of Biblical Studies for eight years at Biola University and Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California, gaining his Master of Divinity Degree from Biola and a Masters Degree in Religion from the University of Southern California. He studied architecture at the University of California at Berkeley and he holds a degree in...
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