What role do you play in the development of A Vampyre Story?
Bill Tiller: The street would be correct. AVS is my baby, so to speak. I doodled up some characters one day back in 1995; one a female vampire and the other a bat I dubbed, “Froderick”. I liked the idea of a naive vampire who didn’t want to be one and did her best to ignore her condition. So I started thinking of a story that went along with the character and that is how I came up with the idea for A Vampyre Story. I was thinking about doing an animated movie about her, but then I thought it might make a good game too. I was tempted to pitch it to LucasArts but decided not to because they would then own the idea. So I held on to it till I quit and started working on it then. GT: What is A Vampyre Story about? Bill Tiller: Back in 1895, at the Parisian Institute for the Operatic Arts, a lonely and psychotic vampire named Shrowdy Von Kiefer was looking for a companion. He had recently lost his mother, under mysterious circumstances, and was sort of looking for a replacement. He suffered
