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| Born | (1949-10-30)October 30, 1949 (age 75) |
| Occupation(s) | Video game designer,computer programmer |
| Known for | Zork, co-founder ofInfocom |
Peter David Lebling (born October 30, 1949) is an Americaninteractive fictiongame designer (implementor) and programmer who has worked at various companies, includingInfocom and Avid.
He was born inWashington, D.C., grew up inMaryland, and attendedMIT, where he obtained a degree inpolitical science before becoming a member of its Laboratory for Computer Science.
After encountering the originalAdventure game (also calledColossal Cave), he was fascinated by the concept and—together withMarc Blank,Tim Anderson andBruce Daniels—set out to write an adventure game with a betterparser,[1] which becameZork. In 1979, he became one of the founders of Infocom.[2]
His games includeZork I,II andIII,Starcross,Suspect,Spellbreaker,The Lurking Horror,Maze andJames Clavell's Shōgun.
After Infocom's end in 1989, Lebling worked on aGUIspreadsheet program, joinedAvid (a company doing special effects for broadcast and film), and designed server applications atUcentric.
Lebling currently resides inConcord, Massachusetts with his wife. He is a programmer for British defense contractorBAE Systems.
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