Joel Billings
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Joel Billings is an American computer game designer. He is the founder of the seminal game company SSI in 1979. The company was an industry leader for years in war games and role-playing games.
In 1987 Billings acquired the rights to the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing games from TSR, which led to the creation of the Gold Box D&D game series, one of the best selling computer game franchises of the 1980s and 1990s.
After two years of losses tied to delays in the new Dark Sun game engine, Billings sold the company to Mindscape in 1994.
In 2001 Billings started a game development company called 2 By 3 Games with former SSI game programmers Gary Grigsby and Keith Brors.
