Marc Blank

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Marc Blank is an American game designer and programmer best known as a co-creator of the pioneering text adventure game Zork and a key figure in early interactive fiction.

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instanceOf computer programmer
interactive fiction author
person
video game designer
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
developed Zork game engine NERFINISHED
educatedAt Albert Einstein College of Medicine NERFINISHED
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
employer Infocom NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork computer software
interactive fiction
video games
genre text adventure
influenced development of narrative-driven computer games
knownFor co-creating the text adventure game Zork
pioneering work in interactive fiction
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Infocom NERFINISHED
notableAchievement helped establish commercial market for interactive fiction
key figure in early text-based adventure games
notableWork Border Zone NERFINISHED
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Zork NERFINISHED
Zork I NERFINISHED
Zork II NERFINISHED
Zork III NERFINISHED
occupation computer programmer
game designer
software engineer
positionHeld co-founder of Infocom
programmed early versions of Zork
workedOn interactive fiction parser technology

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Infocom foundedBy Marc Blank