Web pages of or about the authors who program and write interactive fiction.
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Scott Adams is the author of Adventureland, one of the first text adventures playable on the small home computer "micros" of the late 1970s (with no disk drive and only 16 or 24 KB memory). He wrote it in 1978 and founded his company Adventure International (AI) to publish it. AI published 17 other adventures (many of them best sellers) between 1979 and 1985.
Mark Blank was one of the original Implementors of the mainframe Zork at MIT. He was one of the founders of Infocom, helped to program the Z-machine, and wrote several other games, including Deadline and Enchanter.
Stephen Granade, author of Undertow, Losing Your Grip, and Common Ground, is also editor of IF resource Brass Lantern and has run the IF Competition for several years.
Brian Howarth used a basic game design tool for writing Scott Adams databases and wrote his own TRS-80 driver so he could then ship and sell them. This driver became the Adventure International Spectrum driver for all games including Scott's and Brian did a lot of the code used for the graphics system in the later Spectrum games.
Dave Lebling was a co-founder of Infocom and wrote many of the text adventures developed and published by Infocom.
Games written or co-written by Dave Lebling include:
Steve Meretzky, author of numerous text adventures (Planetfall, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Leather Goddesses of Phobos), as well as many graphic adventures and now online games.
Graham Nelson, creator of the Inform interactive fiction compiler and author of several text adventures (Curses, Jigsaw, The Meteor, The Stone, and a Tall Glass of Sherbet).
Don Woods gave us Adventure (1976) as we know it, modifying the original cave simulation program by Will Crowther. He wrote other expanded versions of Adventure as well.