Site Policies
The basic terms governing use of this website.
Last updated: April 29, 2026
This is a tribute site dedicated to celebrating Roberta Williams' career. It is provided as-is, free for reading, and offered in good faith. Please don't redistribute the site's original writing or scrape it wholesale, and please respect that screenshots, box art, and other visual material from Sierra On-Line games appear here under fair-use principles for the purpose of historical and biographical commentary.
robertawilliams.com is a biographical and tribute website chronicling the work of game designer Roberta Williams — the games she designed, the awards she received, the press coverage she generated, and the cultural legacy of her career. The site does not sell products. The Colossal Cave game has its own dedicated site at colossalcave3d.com, which handles all commercial details for that title.
You're welcome to read, reference, and link to anything on this site. Personal use — quoting a sentence in a research paper, sharing a link in a forum, including a small portion in a piece of journalism — is fine and welcomed.
What we ask you not to do: republish substantial portions of the original writing here as your own; scrape the site systematically; redistribute the photos and visual material hosted here outside the context of fair-use commentary; or use the site to imply endorsement of products, services, or causes that Roberta and Ken haven't actually endorsed.
The original writing on this site — the biographical narrative, the design-philosophy essays, the awards summaries, the press retrospectives — is copyright the site owner. You may quote brief passages with attribution. For longer reproductions, please ask first.
Screenshots, box art, character illustrations, and other visual material from Sierra On-Line games appear on this site under fair-use principles for the purposes of historical documentation, biographical commentary, and educational reference. Sierra On-Line and its games are properties of their respective rights holders.
Colossal Cave imagery is used with the permission of Cygnus Entertainment.
Press logos appearing on the News & Media page are the trademarks of their respective publications and are used here solely to identify the source of articles linked from this site — not to imply endorsement by those publications.
This site links out to interviews, articles, museum collections, the Colossal Cave game site, the newsletter, and various other external resources. Once you click out, you're on a third-party site governed by its own terms. We don't control those sites and aren't responsible for their content.
The site has been built with reasonable effort toward accuracy: dates, awards, and biographical details have been cross-referenced against public records, Wikipedia, first-party press releases, and the archives at sierragamers.com, sierrachest.com, and mobygames.com. Even so, fifty years of game industry history is a lot, and the occasional small error may slip through. If you spot something incorrect, please let us know via the Contact page and we'll fix it.
The site is provided as-is, without warranties of any kind. It may occasionally be unavailable for maintenance, updates, or reasons outside our control. Information on the site reflects the best understanding at the time of publication and may be updated, corrected, or expanded without notice.
If these terms change in any meaningful way, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change.
Questions about these terms, requests for permission to reproduce content, or notices about anything that may need correcting can be sent through the Contact page.