Marc Blank
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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 31 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 |
| Zork (1987, DOS) | created at the Programming Technology Division of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science by |
| Bureaucracy (1987, DOS) | Contributions by |
[ full credits ]
July 28, 2006
source: getlamp.com
Frequent Collaborators
People- 15 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 Connie Booth
- 5 games with Darren Yager
- 5 games with Buzz Burrowes
- 5 games with Tim Midkiff
- 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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