Dave Lebling (born 1949) was an interactive fiction game designer, or "implementor", at Infocom. Image File history File links Dave Lebling, ca 1985. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Zork, an early work of interactive fiction, running on a modern interpreter Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software containing simulated environments in which players use text commands to control characters. ... Zork universe Zork games Zork trilogy Zork I Zork II Zork III Enchanter trilogy Enchanter Sorcerer Spellbreaker Wishbringer Beyond Zork Zork Zero Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis Zork Grand Inquisitor Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Frobozzica Miscellaneous Timeline   Calendar   Magic Double Fanucci Companies Infocom   Activision Infocom was an American software company, based in...

He was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Maryland, and attended MIT, where he obtained a degree in political science before becoming a member of its Laboratory for Computer Science. Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. ... State nickname: Old Line State; Free State Other U.S. States Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Governor Robert L. Ehrlich (R) Senators Paul Sarbanes (D) Barbara Mikulski (D) Official language(s) English Area 32,160 km² (42nd)  - Land 25,338 km²  - Water 6,968 km² (21%) Population (2000)  - Population 5... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a widely renowned leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including engineering systems, management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ...

After encountering the original Adventure game (also called Colossal Cave), he was fascinated by the concept and—together with Marc Blank, Tim Anderson, and Bruce Daniels—set out to write an adventure game with a better parser, which became Zork. In 1979 he became one of the founders of Infocom. Adventure (also known as ADVENT or Colossal Cave) (Crowther & Woods, 1976) was the first computer adventure game. ... A parser is a computer program or a component of a program that analyses the grammatical structure of an input, with respect to a given formal grammar, a process known as parsing. ... Zork can run on modern Z-machine interpreters, as well as the older models it was made for originally. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

His games include Zork I-III, Starcross, Suspect, Spellbreaker, The Lurking Horror and James Clavell's Shogun. Zork can run on modern Z-machine interpreters, as well as the older models it was made for originally. ... Starcross is a 1982 interactive fiction game designed and implemented by Dave Lebling and published by Infocom. ... Suspect is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Dave Lebling and published by Infocom in 1984. ... Zork universe Zork games Zork trilogy Zork I Zork II Zork III Enchanter trilogy Enchanter Sorcerer Spellbreaker Wishbringer Beyond Zork Zork Zero Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis Zork Grand Inquisitor Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Frobozzica Miscellaneous Timeline   Calendar   Magic Double Fanucci Companies Infocom   Activision Spellbreaker is an interactive fiction computer game written... The Lurking Horror is an interactive fiction computer game released by Infocom in 1987. ... James Clavells Shōgun is an interactive fiction computer game written by Dave Lebling and released by Infocom in 1989. ...

After Infocom's end in 1989, Lebling worked on a GUI spreadsheet program, joined Avid (a company doing special effects for broadcast and film), and designed server applications at Ucentric. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A graphical user interface (or GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

External links

• MobyGames' rap sheet on Lebling
• Interview with Dave Lebling (2001)