P. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. David Lebling (born 1949) was an interactive fiction game designer, or Implementor, at Infocom. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A "game designer" is a person who designs Video games or one who designs traditional games such as Board games Video Games Designer A video game designer Implementer was originally the self-given name of the creators of the Infocom text adventure series Zork. Infocom was a Software company, based in Cambridge Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of Interactive fiction.
He was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Maryland, and attended MIT, where he obtained a degree in political science before becoming a member of its Laboratory for Computer Science. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions
After encountering the original Adventure game (also called Colossal Cave), he was fascinated by the concept and—together with Marc Blank, Tim Anderson and Bruce Daniels—set out to write an adventure game with a better parser, which became Zork. Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) (Crowther 1976 Crowther Marc Blank is an American Computer game designer and Game programmer. Tim Anderson is a Computer programmer who helped create the Adventure game Zork, one of the first works of Interactive fiction and In Computer science and Linguistics, parsing, or more formally syntactic analysis, is the process of analyzing a sequence of tokens to Zork was one of the first Interactive fiction Computer games and an early descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure. In 1979 he became one of the founders of Infocom. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar)
His games include Zork I, II and III, Starcross, Suspect, Spellbreaker, The Lurking Horror and James Clavell's Shogun. Zork was one of the first Interactive fiction Computer games and an early descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure. Spellbreaker is an Interactive fiction Computer game written by Dave Lebling and released by Infocom in 1985, the third The Lurking Horror is an Interactive fiction Computer game released by Infocom in 1987 James Clavell's Shōgun is an Interactive fiction Computer game written by Dave Lebling and released by Infocom in 1989
After Infocom's end in 1989, Lebling worked on a GUI spreadsheet program, joined Avid (a company doing special effects for broadcast and film), and designed server applications at Ucentric. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) A spreadsheet is a Computer application that simulates a paper worksheet Avid Technology Inc ( is an American company specializing in video and audio production technology specifically digital non-linear editing (NLE
External links
- Dave Lebling's profile at MobyGames
- Interview with Dave Lebling at Adventure Classic Gaming (2001)
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