Don Woods

male
Princeton University, James M. Lyon, Stanford AI lab, INTERCAL programming language, The Soul of a New Machine, PDP-10…ColossalCaveAdventure, adventure game
Don Woods (born April 30, 1954) is an American perennial hacker and computer programmer. Woods teamed with James M. Lyon while both were attending...

William Crowther

male
Video Game Designer, Cavers, computer programmer, caver, ARPANET, Bolt, Beranek and Newman…ColossalCaveAdventure, text adventure, adventure
William ("Willie" or "Will") Crowther (born 1936) is a computer programmer and caver. He is best known as the co-creator of "Colossal Cave...
Dave Lebling

Dave Lebling

male, 59 years old
Video Game Designer, Ucentric, interactive fiction, GUI, ColossalCaveAdventure, spreadsheet…Colossal Cave, adventure
P. David Lebling (born 1949) was an interactive fiction game designer, or "implementor", at Infocom. He was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in...
Marc Blank

Marc Blank

male, 54 years old
Video Game Designer, Game designer, Infocom, mainframe, mdl, microcomputers…text adventure, ColossalCaveAdventure, adventure
Marc Blank is an American computer game designer and game programmer. He is best known as part of the team that created one of the first hit text...

Tim Anderson

male
computer programmer, PDP-10, ColossalCaveAdventure, interactive fiction, Advent, Infocom…adventure game
Tim Anderson is a computer programmer and helped create the adventure game "Zork", one of the first works of interactive fiction and an early...
Warren Robinett

Warren Robinett

male
Find Talents, Random Access Memory, Slot Racer, Rocky's Boots, The Learning Company, Western Geophysical…ColossalCaveAdventure, adventure
Warren Robinett is a designer of interactive computer graphics software, notable as the developer of "Adventure", the first graphical adventure...