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William Crowther (born 1936) is an American computer programmer, caver, and rock climber. He is the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure from 1975 onward, a seminal computer game that influenced the first decade of video game design and inspired the text adventure game genre.
He was one hell of a programmer, “regarded by his colleagues as being within the top fraction of 1 percent of programmers in the world,” with a particular genius for writing incredibly compact and efficient code, a valuable skill indeed in those days of absurdly limited memory and processing power.
William Crowther (born 1936) is an American computer programmer, caver, and rock climber. He is the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure from 1975 onward, a seminal computer game that influenced the first decade of video game design and inspired the text adventure game genre .
In 1975 and 1976 spelunker and programmer at Bolt Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, William Crowther wrote the first computer text adventure game, Adventure. Adventure was originally called ADVENT because a filename could only be six characters long in its operating system.
William "Willie" Crowther (1936) was the author of the strong Tolkien influeced Text-Adventure Colossal Cave Adventure, on which Colossal Adventure was based.
William Crowther (born 1936) is an American computer programmer, caver, and rock climber. He is the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure from 1975 onward, a seminal computer game that influenced the first decade of video game design and inspired the text adventure game genre.
William Crowther may refer to: William Crowther (Australian politician) (1817–1885) William Crowther (New Zealand politician) (1834–1900) William Crowther (programmer) (born 1936) Category: Human name disambiguation pages.
