Zilpha Keatley SnyderDeveloper BIO
"Zilpha Keatley Snyder, a native Californian, is the renowned author of more than a dozen adventure and fantasy books for young people. In addition to the Green-Sky Trilogy, Ms. Snyder is the author of the acclaimed "Egypt Game", "The Headless Cupid", and "The Witches of Worm", which are all Newbery Honor Books from Athenaeum Publishers."
-- from the Below the Root game manual
Zilpha was first introduced to adventure games on computers by Dale Disharoon, lead programmer/designer for Below the Root. In adapting the Green-Sky triology into a computer game, Zilpha acted as co-designer to bring her world to life. The following excerpt from the game manual describes part of the process of adapting the Green-Sky trilogy in her own words:
"I began to map out the vast world of Green-Sky on an enormous sheet of graph paper spread out on my studio floor. I stretched the many grundtrees whose intricate network of branches supported the homes, shops, temples, and public buildings of the people of Green-Sky ... Next came the many inhabitants of the land; I planned the responses they might make when addressed or
'pensed'.
Dale and I worked very closely over many months on the adaptation. While I sketched and charted Green-Sky, he made it all possible by ably programming the computer. Our ideas flowed back and forth, and it felt more like play than work."
Websites
Games CreditedBelow the Root (1984), Windham Classics
