Jeff Stephenson
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Jeff Stephenson created SCI (Sierra's Creative Interpreter), the object-oriented scripting language of Sierra On-Line for its adventure games after the older AGI (a procedural language). Previously, he also was the head of Sierra’s AGI and SCI system programmers and responsible for much of the code of both of those languages. He originally called it LSCI, for Large-model Script Code Interpreter, and later SCI because it ran scripts, until someone in marketing found a better way to explain the acronym.
He was one of the company's first employees, struggling through the down times when Sierra almost went under. When Sierra got back on track, development began on King's Quest.
In the early nineties, as Sierra's Lead Programmer, he was also involved with creating TSN (The Sierra Network), later TNN (The ImagiNation Network), the architecture for online games. In 1992, he left the company for good.
Credited on 49 games
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| Fuck Quest (2004, Windows) | Based upon the Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) by |
| Castle of Dr. Brain (1992, Amiga) | Development System |
| Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1992, DOS) | Development System |
| Quest for Glory III: Wages of War (1992, DOS) | Interpreter / Development System |
| The Dagger of Amon Ra (1992, DOS) | Development System |
| Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge (1992, DOS) | System Development |
| Police Quest 3: The Kindred (1992, Amiga) | Development System |
| Jones in the Fast Lane: CD-ROM (1992, DOS) | Interpreter / Development System |
| Mixed Up Fairy Tales (1991, DOS) | Development System |
| Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1991, DOS) | System Programmer |
| Roberta Williams' Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1991, DOS) | Development System (Floppy Disk) |
| Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1991, DOS) | SCI Development System |
| Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (1991, DOS) | Development Team |
| Jones in the Fast Lane (1991, DOS) | Development System |
| EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus (1991, DOS) | Interpreter / Development System |
| Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (1991, DOS) | Interpreter / Development System |
| Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (1991, DOS) | System Development |
| Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood (1991, DOS) | Development System |
| Hoyle: Official Book of Games - Volume 3 (1991, DOS) | Interpreter / Development System |
| Hoyle: Official Book of Games - Volume 2: Solitaire (1990, DOS) | Development System |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 40 games with Ken Williams
- 35 games with Robert Eric Heitman
- 25 games with Dan Foy
- 24 games with Mark Seibert
- 22 games with J. Mark Hood
- 22 games with Pablo Ghenis
- 21 games with Corey Cole
- 21 games with Larry Scott
- 19 games with Chris Iden
- 18 games with John Rettig
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Companies
- 48 games with Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
- 18 games with U.S. Gold Ltd.
- 18 games with Kixx XL
- 7 games with Camel Advertising and...
- 6 games with Vivendi Games (UK) Limited
- 4 games with Fairfield Software
- 4 games with Brasoft Produtos de...
- 3 games with InterTAN Canada Ltd.
- 2 games with Evryware
- 2 games with International Business...
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