Marc Blank
Moby ID: 199
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Marc Blank is a software programmer and developer. He is best known for his work on Zork games and was one of the co-founders of the company Infocom.
He then worked for Sony when his second company, Eidetic, was acquired in 2000. He left Sony in 2004 and focused on applications for mobile devices.
He most recently is an application engineer with Google.
Credited on 32 games
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| Zork N plus 9 (2012, Browser) | adapting Zork by |
| Endless, Nameless (2012, Z-machine) | Z-Machine by |
| Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror (2007, PlayStation 2) | Special Thanks |
| Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain (2004, PlayStation 2) | Director of Product Development |
| Syphon Filter 3 (2001, PlayStation) | Executive Producers |
| Ad Verbum (2000, DOS) | Z-Machine by |
| Syphon Filter 2 (2000, PlayStation) | Executive Producer |
| Syphon Filter (1999, PlayStation) | Executive Producer |
| Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (1997, Commodore 64) | Written by |
| Bubsy 3D (1996, PlayStation) | Executive Producer |
| Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1996, PlayStation) | Original Game Authors are |
| Live Action Football (1994, Windows 3.x) | Game |
| Columbo's Mystery Capers (1993, Newton) | Developed by |
| Return to Zork (1993, DOS) | Special Thanks to |
| Pork I: The Great Underground Sewer System (1991, DOS) | A parody of ZORK I, THE GREAT UNDERGROUND EMPIRE by |
| Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (1989, DOS) | Based on a concept by |
| Journey: The Quest Begins (1989, Apple II) | Game Design |
| Border Zone (1987, DOS) | Author |
| Bureaucracy (1987, DOS) | Contributions by |
| Zork Trilogy (1987, Commodore 64) | Interactive Fiction by |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 16 games with Dave Lebling
- 7 games with Christopher Reese
- 6 games with Michael Berlyn
- 6 games with Norman Chang
- 6 games with Michael Maxwell
- 5 games with John Garvin
- 5 games with Timothy Anderson
- 5 games with Darren Yager
- 5 games with John Koller
- 5 games with Tom Plunket
Companies
- 16 games with Infocom, Inc.
- 8 games with SCE Bend Studio
- 5 games with Sony Interactive...
- 5 games with Mastertronic Ltd.
- 4 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 3 games with Sony Interactive...
- 2 games with Zynga Eugene
- 2 games with Accolade, Inc.
- 2 games with 989 Studios
- 2 games with Commodore Business Machines, Inc
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