Gareth D. Rees (born 1971) is a British software developer and games writer. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He is known for his contribution to the manual for the Inform programming language, and has written several pieces of interactive fiction using Inform. Inform is a Programming language and design system for Interactive fiction originally created in 1993 by Graham Nelson. He works for Zoonami, a video game development company in Cambridge, UK. Zoonami is a video game development company founded in 2000 by Martin Hollis, the director and producer of GoldenEye 007. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England
Rees read computer science at Christ's College, Cambridge. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Christ’s College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge.
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Works
Video games at Zoonami
Contributed to:
Interactive fiction
- Christminster (1995, Z-code)
- The Magic Toyshop (1995, Z-code). Zendoku is a videogame developed by Zoonami and published by Eidos Interactive for the Nintendo DS and the PSP portable video Go! Puzzle is a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store developed by Zoonami / Cohort Studios. The Z-machine is a Virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games Won award in IF Comp 1995 (3rd place, Inform division). Inform is a Programming language and design system for Interactive fiction originally created in 1993 by Graham Nelson.
- Through the Looking Glass (1995, Z-code)
Books
- (2001) Inform Designers Manual (4th ed), with Graham Nelson. Graham A Nelson (born 1968 is a British mathematician poet and the creator of the Inform design system for creating Interactive fiction (IF games Placet Solutions, ISBN 0 971311 90 0
External links
- Gareth Rees' website
- Gareth Rees. IFWiki