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David Fox is a multimedia producer, best known for his early work on LucasArts games, most notably Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. He and his wife, Annie Fox, now work on educational software, Web design, Emotional Intelligence content, online community, emerging technologies, and writing books for children and teens. Official LucasArts logo LucasArts Entertainment Company (sometimes shortened to LEC), is a video game developer and publisher. ...
A screenshot of Zak McKracken, PC version. ...
Annie Fox is a book author. ...
The expression emotional intelligence or EI indicates a kind of intelligence or skill that involves the ability to perceive, assess and positively influence ones own and other peoples emotions. ...
Early work
David is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. At age eleven, he made his first 8 mm cartoon using stacks of discarded Flintstones cels he found in the trash bins behind Hanna-Barbera. He studied engineering at UCLA and Humanistic Psychology at California State University at Sonoma where he received his bachelor's degree. David and his wife Annie co-founded Marin Computer Center in 1977 - the world’s first public-access microcomputer center. He co-authored the books Computer Animation Primer, Armchair BASIC, and Pascal Primer. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...
The cast of The Flintstones, from left to right: Betty, Barney, Fred, Wilma and Dino. ...
Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ...
The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ...
Opened in 1977 in Marin County, CA, the Marin Computer Center was the worlds first public access microcomputer center. ...
LucasArts David's books led to him being hired as a founding member of the Games Division at Lucasfilm (now LucasArts Entertainment Company). Over the next ten years he was the designer, project leader, and one of the programmers for the games Rescue on Fractalus!, Labyrinth, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure. He also worked on Maniac Mansion as the primary script programmer. David was part of the immortal team that included Ron Gilbert and Noah Falstein. Lucasfilm Logo Lucasfilm Ltd. ...
Official LucasArts logo LucasArts Entertainment Company (sometimes shortened to LEC), is a video game developer and publisher. ...
Screenshot Rescue on Fractalus! on the Atari 5200 Rescue On Fractalus! is a 1985 computer game created by Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts Entertainment). ...
Labyrinth: The Computer Game is an early computer adventure game, inspired by the Jim Henson fantasy film, Labyrinth. ...
A screenshot of Zak McKracken, PC version. ...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1989, published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). ...
Maniac Mansion is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1987 by LucasArts. ...
Ron Gilbert is a computer game designer, programmer and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. ...
Noah Falstein is a freelance game designer and producer who has been in the video game industry since 1980. ...
David spent his last two years at LucasArts David as Manager of Entertainment Software on Mirage (a collaboration between LucasArts and Hughes Aircraft Corporation). This multi-player, networked location-based entertainment system was intended for theme parks, but like several early Lucasfilm projects of the time, was too advanced and hence too expensive for the market at that time. Hughes developed the AIM-120 AMRAAM, one of the worlds most advanced air-to-air missiles Hughes Aircraft Company was a major defence/aerospace company founded by Howard Hughes. ...
Talk City After leaving LucasArts, David was a Senior Game Designer at Rocket Science Games, then worked as a freelance consultant on several games. In 1996, he joined LiveWorld Inc./Talk City, an Internet community provider, as their Director of Kids and Entertainment Programming. During his four years at the company, he produced The InSite, a Web site for teen empowerment, and then became the Director of New Content.
In 2001, David returned to immersive gaming at Xulu Entertainment, producing their motion simulator project. Then he produced and designed a prototype of an educational game for Learning Friends under a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a foundation that has been making grants since 1966 to address current social and environmental issues. ...
recent and current work In the run-up to the 2004 election, he was active on the Dean Media Team (www.Switch2Dean.com) and built a (blog) for Simon & Schuster on Dean’s book, Winning Back America. Since then he has developed Web sites for authors David McCullough and Terry Gamble, Alaska Federation of Natives and Marin Democrats, all with graphic designer Daniel Will-Harris. A blog or weblog (derived from web + log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ...
Jean-François Millet Le Semeur (The Sower) Simon & Schuster logo, circa 1961. ...
David McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American historian and bestselling author. ...
David is the Director of Production for NewsTrust, a proposed citizen news rating service aiming to bring together experienced journalists and volunteer reviewers.
David's interests include science fiction, good films, photography, video making, and taking long walks in the hills of Marin County with Annie (and with their dog, Vermont). Marin County is a county located in Californias San Francisco Bay Area, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. ...
See also Before concentrating almost exclusively on Star Wars titles, LucasArts was known for their point-and-click adventure games, nearly all of which received high scoring reviews at the time of their release. ...
Maniac Mansion on the Commodore 64. ...
ScummVM is a stack-based virtual machine which allows one to play LucasArts adventure games which use the SCUMM system on platforms other than those where versions were originally released; furthermore, it supports the non-SCUMM games Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword and Broken Sword II, Flight of the...
Screenshot Rescue on Fractalus! on the Atari 5200 Rescue On Fractalus! is a 1985 computer game created by Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts Entertainment). ...
Maniac Mansion is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1987 by LucasArts. ...
A screenshot of Zak McKracken, PC version. ...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1989, published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). ...
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