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This meant that the sequel to Phantasmagoria would have to go to somebody else. For the next King’s Quest game Roberta was determined to take back control - the Great Mother of the Kingdom of Daventry simply could not bear the idea of abandoning her child for good. She had already endured the hardships of working on two equally challenging and innovative games at the same time ( King’s Quest VII and the first Phantasmagoria), and quickly understood that she could succeed only if she’d hand the creative reins over to another designer for at least one of them - thus most of the work on King’s Quest VII ended up in the hands of Lorelei Shannon, a former writer of guides and hintbooks for Sierra.

There was one problem, though: Roberta Williams was not interested. The market law is harsh, but it is law: the massive commercial success of Phantasmagoria more or less put an imperative to Sierra that a sequel should be produced as soon as possible.