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Dave Anderson
Bob Bates
Michael Berlyn
Marc Blank
Amy Briggs
Liz Cyr-Jones
Patricia Fogleman
Stu Galley
Jim Lawrence
David Lebling
Steve Meretzky
Brian Moriarty
Jeff O'Neill
Jerry Wolper
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Mike Berlyn was already an accomplished novelist before joining Infocom having written the books The Integrated Man and Crystal Phoenix among others published by Bantam Books. He really doesn't feel that he should have the cult attention saying the real honors should go to "Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, even Steve Meretzky..." as well as the other core Infocommies as they sometimes refer to themselves (along with Imps and Implementors). He comments that he looks back on his days with Infocom "quite often and with great fondness and warmth." He explains that he had a competing business based in Colorado and actually published his first text adventure a month before Zork was released. He then saw Zork and "I said, 'Boy! These guys really know what they're doing, unlike me (laughs).'" Fate then played its hand by allowing Berlyn to meet Blank at an Applefest. Blank extended the invitation to apply for a job and Berlyn became an Imp. Even with his novelist background (his latest book The Eternal Enemy was published in 1990 by Wm. Morrow), Berlyn says writing interactive fiction was very different and equally as hard as writing a novel. His interactive games are Suspended, Infidel, and Cutthroats. He also headed up Fooblitzky. Berlyn was the fourth person to join Infocom and he says he was very intimidated at first by working with highly intelligent people. "It seemed like overnight stardom for me." Now, Berlyn has partnered again with Marc Blank to found Eidetic, Inc. to produce games that "push the envelope." (Courtesy infocom.elsewhere.org.)
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