Scott MurphyDeveloper BIO
One of the legendary "Two Guys from Andromeda", Scott Murphy is best known as the co-creator of the
Space Quest series.
His career in the games industry began when he was hired as a dealer returns person at
Sierra (then still On-Line Systems). He later worked in customer support and quality assurance. After seeing other people programming Sierra's adventure games, he begged
Ken Williams to let him have a try at programming, which led to him becoming a programmer for
The Black Cauldron. Working on that game, he met
Mark Crowe, who was doing the graphics. The two shared a love of science fiction and a sense of humor, so they decided to get together and design their own game - the Two Guys from Andromeda and Space Quest were born.
Murphy programming, Crowe doing art, both designing, they did four Space Quest games together. After
the fourth game, the two split ways when Crowe moved to
Dynamix. Murphy continued programming for various Sierra projects. When Sierra decided to do
Space Quest 6, he was busy programming
Police Quest: Open Season, so they asked
Josh Mandel to design the game. Murphy worked as a consultant, but had to finish the game when Mandel left Sierra.
Murphy later worked on Space Quest 7, a project that never saw the light of the day. He was laid off from Sierra in early 1999 (a while before the infamous "Chainsaw Monday"), and hasn't worked in the games industry since.
Websites
Games CreditedKing's Quest Collection (2006), Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
Police Quest: SWAT 2 (1998), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
King's Quest: Collection Series (1997), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (1995), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier (1995), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
King's Quest (Collector's Edition) (1994), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Leisure Suit Larry's Greatest Hits and Misses! (1994), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Space Quest (Collector's Edition) (1994), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: Open Season (1993), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Hoyle Classic Card Games (1993), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
SimCity Enhanced CD-ROM (1993), Interplay Productions Ltd.
The Dagger of Amon Ra (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon (1989), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1987), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Space Quest II: Chapter II - Vohaul's Revenge (1987), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
The Black Cauldron (1986), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
King's Quest (1986), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter (1986), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne (1985), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
