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Peter David Lebling (born October 30, 1949) is an American interactive fiction game designer ( implementor) and programmer who has worked at various companies, including Infocom and Avid. Life and career.
- From Game Maker to Gamer
- Discovering Emergent Silliness
- Feelies with Feeling
- Inspiring A New Generation
“The game I play the most is World of Warcraft,” Lebling says enthusiastically when asked about his current gaming habits. “I’ve been into MMOs for a long time. I was a hardcore EverQuest player; I was in a guild on one server that did all the top-end content, and I just got to the point where I did not want to devote the time. Being in a high-end ...
The first Infocom title I ever really fell in love with was Steve Meretzky’s “serious” game, A Mind Forever Voyaging. You play as an artificial intelligence that is capable of jumping into a person’s life at various points in a simulated future. My young mind couldn’t quite grasp everything that was going on, but Meretzky painted a memorable world ...
Again, my thoughts start to wander. Bureaucracy is another of the Infocom classics that left a mark. The text for that adventure was delivered by none other than Douglas Adams, Mr. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxyhimself. It wasn’t the Adams link that grabbed me though; it was the stuff inside the box, the feelies. Infocom games often came packaged...
Of course, none of this is a concern for Lebling anymore; the Infocom founder still works with computers, but games have become more of a hobby than a pursuit. He currently works as a programmer for British defense and aerospace company, BAE Systems. He admits to having an interest in trying out The Walking Dead, Journey, and a handful of others, b...
Aug 22, 2017 · Zork creator Dave Lebling created this hand-drawn map of the game’s “Great Underground Empire” in the late 1970s.
Dec 19, 2012 · Wired has just announced that Infocom co-founders and Zork co-creators Marc Blank and Dave Lebling will be receiving the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Pioneer Award for their work in...
Jun 20, 2023 · There's a quote in 50 Years of Text Games from Dave Lebling, co-creator of Zork, that has been rattling around in my head ever since I read the book, coming to the surface every so often...
Those are the opening lines of the 1980 interactive computer game, Zork I, the creation of Dave Lebling in collaboration with Marc Blank. Lebling went on to write seven other highly popular and critically acclaimed text-only computer games, and also cofounded one of the pioneering businesses in computer gaming, Infocom.
May 21, 2015 · Two decades before id Software changed the game industry with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, Colley, Palmer and MIT students Greg Thompson and Dave Lebling invented the first-person shooter.
