William Kus
aka:
Will Kuss,
Will Kus,
William Ryan Kus
Moby ID: 57760
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William Kus' first video game experience was Adventure. He began working at THQ in 1998 testing Ricky Charmichael, MTV Snowboarding, Brunswick Pro Bowling (credits), Road Rage 64, Sinistar PC, Danger Girl, Wrestlemania 2000, Totally Angelica (credits), and other games. After about 9 months of being a temporary employee, he was hired permanently as a tester by THQ.
Later he moved up north to Oakland and would start working at Sega of America in Downtown San Francisco for 6 months right as they launched the Dreamcast. He tested all sorts of 1st Party Dreamcast games at Sega: Seaman, Space Channel 5, Jet Grind Radio, NBA2K, NFL2K, Skies of Arcadia, Ecco the Dolphin, Quake III, and others. His main project was Assistant Lead for Shenmue (credits).
After Sega, he would work 6 months at Sony Computer Entertainment of America in Foster City. Working in the 3rd party testing division. He ran backwards compatibility tests on the PSX.
Moving back to Los Angeles, Kus worked for Activision as a temporary tester for over a year. He began as a console tester on Matt Hoffman 2 Dreamcast (credits). He worked on Total War Medieval (credits), Castle Wolfenstein, Tony Hawk 2, Spider-man, Bridge Commander (credits) and other games. With a solid track record, William Kus would be promoted to Database Manager of Starfleet Command III (credits).
Kus would then work for TDK in Agoura Hills, before they were bought by 2K Games. He worked for about 6 months before being hired as a permanent employee. Some of his games include Tonka Trucks, The Haunted Mansion (credits), Corvette (credits), The Guy Game (credits), and others.
Kus worked for cell phone developer Alacre in Santa Monica for about half a year. Some of the cell phone applications that were tested include TV Guide, 24, and others.
The last company he would work for would be Vivendi Universal in El Segundo. His main project would be Caesar and a Nintendo DS game starring Crash Bandicoot.
Credited on 17 games
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Crash Boom Bang! (2006, Nintendo DS) | QA Testers |
Caesar IV (2006, Windows) | QA Test Team |
UFC Sudden Impact (2004, PlayStation 2) | Quality Assurance Team |
Corvette (2004, PlayStation 2) | Quality Assurance Team |
Tonka Rescue Patrol (2003, GameCube) | Quality Assurance Team |
Disney's The Haunted Mansion (2003, Xbox) | QA Team |
Medieval: Total War (2002, Windows) | QA Testers |
Star Trek: Bridge Commander (2002, Windows) | QA Testers |
Supercar Street Challenge (2001, PlayStation 2) | QA Testers |
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX (2001, Windows) | QA Testers |
NBA 2K1 (2000, Dreamcast) | Testers |
Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (2000, Dreamcast) | Testers (SOA) |
Rugrats: Totally Angelica (2000, Game Boy Color) | Testing |
Shenmue (1999, Dreamcast) | Assistant Test Leaders |
BassMasters 2000 (1999, Nintendo 64) | Testers |
Bass Masters Classic (1999, Game Boy Color) | Tester |
Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling (1998, Nintendo 64) | Game Testers |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 8 games with Donn W. Nauert
- 4 games with Jim Summers
- 4 games with Jason Wong
- 4 games with Indra Yee
- 4 games with Nadine Theuzillot
- 4 games with Denise Walsh
- 4 games with Sam Nouriani
- 4 games with Rob Lim
- 4 games with Gary Bolduc
- 4 games with Daniel Kletzky
Companies
- 5 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 4 games with THQ Inc.
- 4 games with Effective Media GmbH
- 3 games with Take-Two Licensing, Inc.
- 3 games with SEGA Corporation
- 3 games with SEGA of America, Inc.
- 3 games with NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH
- 3 games with Activision Deutschland GmbH
- 2 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 2 games with Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
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