Background
He was born in Washington, District of Columbia, grew up in Maryland, and attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained a degree in political science before becoming a member of its Laboratory for Computer Science.
He was born in Washington, District of Columbia, grew up in Maryland, and attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained a degree in political science before becoming a member of its Laboratory for Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After encountering the original Adventure game (also called Colossal Cave), he was fascinated by the concept and—together with Marc Blank, Tim Anderson and Bruce Daniels—set out to write an adventure game with a better parser, which became Zork. In 1979, he became one of the founders of Infocom. His games include Zork I, II and III, Starcross, Suspect, Spellbreaker, The Lurking Horror and James Clavell"s Shogun.
After Infocom"s end in 1989, Lebling worked on a GUI spreadsheet program, joined Avid (a company doing special effects for broadcast and film), and designed server applications at Ucentric.
He is a programmer for British defense contractor British Aerospace Systems.