Dave Lebling

Developer BIO

(Taken from a 1988 game manual)

Dave Lebling was born in Washington D.C., in a hospital that was torn down soon thereafter. He grew up in suburban Maryland. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science where he developed an interest in computer entertainments. He co-authored the original mainframe Zork. He co-authored Zork 1, Zork II, Zork III, and Enchanter, and wrote Starcross, Suspect, Spellbreaker, and The Lurking Horror on his own. He is married and lives in a suburb of Boston. His long-range ambition is to have a library with room enough for all his books to be taken out of storage. His short-range ambition is to keep squirrels out of his birdseed.

Websites

• Interview with Dave Lebling -- on AdventureClassicGaming.com (2001)
• Infocom Authors -- Short biography of Dave Lebling.

Games Credited

Alienators: Evolution Continues (2001), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Curses (1993),
Return to Zork (1993), Activision, Inc.
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur (1989), Infocom, Inc.
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (1989), Infocom, Inc.
James Clavell's Shogun (1988), Infocom, Inc.
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor (1987), Infocom, Inc.
Dungeon (1987),
The Lurking Horror (1987), Infocom, Inc.
Trinity (1986), Infocom, Inc.
Spellbreaker (1985), Infocom, Inc.
Suspect (1984), Infocom, Inc.
Enchanter (1983), Infocom, Inc.
The Witness (1983), Infocom, Inc.
Starcross (1982), Infocom, Inc.
Zork III: The Dungeon Master (1982), Infocom, Inc.
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz (1981), Infocom, Inc.
Zork: The Great Underground Empire (1980), Infocom, Inc.