Scott Adams (game designer)
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 Scott Adams, game designer |
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| Born | July 10, 1952 |
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Scott Adams (born July 10, 1952) is the co-founder, with ex-wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers.
Born in Miami, Florida and currently living in Platteville, Wisconsin, Adams was the first person known to create an adventure-style game for personal computers,[1] in 1978 on a 16KB Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, written in the BASIC programming language. Colossal Cave was a year earlier, but on a mainframe, the PDP-10. These early text adventure games use a minimal parser, recognizing 2-word commands of the form VERB NOUN. The parser only scanned the first three letters of each command, so inputting SCREAM BEAR, SCRATCH BEAR or SCREW BEAR would be treated identically.[1] Scott had access to an advanced 16-bit computer at home, built by his brother Richard Adams, that gave him a jump on game programming in his leisure time.[1]
The Adventure International games were subsequently released on most of the major home PC platforms of the day, including TRS-80, Apple II series, Atari 8-bit series and Commodore PET. Versions of the games were also made for later platforms such as Vic-20 and some also had versions produced with rudimentary graphics.
On 02/14/2013, Scott Adams released his first game in over ten years, called THE INHERITANCE. This game is like most of his other games where they play the protagonist in a novel-like story and help the event unfolds in a text adventure setting. This newest game however also includes sound. The game can be purchased at http://www.msadams.com/inorder.htm.
Games [edit]
- Adventureland (1978)
- Pirate Adventure (1978–1979)
- Secret Mission (1979) (see also: Mission: Impossible)
- Voodoo Castle (In collaboration with Alexis Adams) (1980)
- The Count (1981)
- Strange Odyssey (1981)
- Mystery Fun House (1981)
- Pyramid of Doom (In collaboration with Alvin Files) (1981)
- Ghost Town (1981)
- Savage Island, Part I (1982)
- Savage Island, Part II (In collaboration with Russ Wetmore) (1982)
- Golden Voyage (In collaboration with William Demas) (1982)
- Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle (1982)
- Return to Pirate's Isle (Exclusively for TI-99/4A systems) (1983)
- Questprobe series:
- Questprobe #1: The Hulk (1984)
- Questprobe #2: Spider-Man (1984)
- Questprobe #3: The Fantastic Four (1984)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (in collaboration with Phillip Case) (1984)
- Return to Pirate's Island 2 (August 2000)
- The Inheritance (February 14, 2013)
References [edit]
External links [edit]
- Scott Adams official website
- Scott Adams Grand Adventures
- Scott Adams at MobyGames
- Scott Adams interview, Adventure Classic Gaming, 1998
- Academic panel featuring Scott Adams[dead link]
- 1986 CRASH magazine interview
- Adventure International Memorial games for download, solutions, map files)
- Scott's first home brew computer graphics game
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