the music. The credits often read, simply, "by Bill Williams." Near the end of his game development career he worked on Monopoly for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Bart's Nightmare for Super NES. Both games were for Sculptured Software in Salt Lake City, Utah, though Williams worked out of his home. Company meddling during the development of the last game prompted Williams to abandon the video game industry completely, calling the experience "Bill's Nightmare". Some Super Nintendo sound driver code written by Williams during this time was used in other games. Writing Williams wrote the book Naked Before God: The Return of a Broken Disciple, published by Morehouse Publishing in May 1998 and in paperback in 2001. It imagines himself as a disciple of Jesus with cystic fibrosis in the present day, trying to understand his struggles with CF and diabetes, and Jesus's message. A collection of poetry and short prose, Manna in the Wilderness: A Harvest of Hope, illustrated by his wife Martha Williams, was published posthumously in March 1999. Death Bill had been born with the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis, which affected his lungs and impaired his ability to breathe. In 1992, he moved to Chicago to study at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, but the city's air pollution worsened his condition significantly, and he had to drop out after two years with only half of the program completed. He moved to Rockport, Texas, but his health continued to deteriorate until he died of complications from the disorder on May 28, 1998, one day before his 38th birthday. References External links Essay on Bill Williams's game development career which also explores Necromancer Bill Williams at MobyGames 1960 births 1998 deaths 20th-century American writers 20th-century American male writers American video game designers American video game programmers Deaths from cystic fibrosis Video game composers