[Purple-Blurb] Brian Moriarty Monday 5:30pm in 6-120

[Nick Montfort]

Please join us for a talk by

 

Brian Moriarty

Creator of Wishbringer, Trinity, Loom, and other interactive fiction and 
graphic adventure titles

and professor of practice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute



  "Beyond Zork: Games & Interactive Fiction"



Monday, November 28, 5:30 pm

MIT’s 6-120

 

Brian Moriarty built his first computer in the fifth grade. He began
publishing games in the early 1980s and in 1984 joined legendary text
adventure company Infocom, where he authored three award-winning 
interactive
fiction titles, Wishbringer (1985), Trinity (1986) and Beyond Zork (1987).
His first graphic adventure game, Loom, was published in 1990 by Lucasfilm
Games to wide critical acclaim.


Sponsored by the Angus N.MacDonald Fund

http://nickm.com/if/purple_blurb/

As always, this Purple Blurb event is free and open to the public.

  -Nick