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Michael Berlyn


Role
  
Video Game Designer

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Michael Berlyn


Michael Berlyn (b. 1949) is an American video game designer and writer. He is best known as an implementer at Infocom, part of the text adventure game design team.

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Berlyn joined Marc Blank in founding the game company Eidetic, which later became Sony Bend. In 1998, Berlyn started Cascade Mountain Publishing, whose goals were to publish ebooks and interactive fiction. Cascade Mountain Publishing went out of business in 2000.

Berlyn created a "light-jazz" band called Hot Mustard, made up entirely of his own music and performances.

Partial gameography

Partial list of gameography:

  • Oo-Topos, Sentient Software and Polarware/Penguin Software
  • Cyborg, Sentient Software
  • Gold Rush (game), Sentient Software
  • Congo (game), Sentient Software
  • Suspended, Infocom
  • Cutthroats, Infocom
  • Infidel, Infocom
  • Fooblitzky (co-designer), Infocom
  • Tass Times in Tonetown, Activision
  • Altered Destiny, Accolade
  • Snoopy's Game Club (with former Intellivision programmer Gene Smith), Accolade
  • Bubsy, Accolade
  • Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (with Marc Blank), Activision
  • Syphon Filter, Contributor, Producer, SECA
  • Bubsy 3D, Accolade
  • Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I., Cascade Mountain Publishing
  • Zen Ball, Quick Click Software
  • The Art of Murder with Muffy Berlyn, iOS, Windows, OS X
  • Grok the Monkey (aka Carnival of Death) with Muffy Berlyn, iOS, Windows
  • A Taste for Murder with Muffy Berlyn, iOS, Windows
  • Reconstructing Remy, an interactive novel with Muffy Berlyn, iOS, Windows
  • Ogg!, iOS, OS X
  • Novels

  • The Integrated Man, Bantam Books, (1980) ISBN 978-0-5531-3999-0
  • Crystal Phoenix, Bantam Books, (1980) ISBN 978-0-5531-3468-1
  • Blight as Mark Sonders, Ace Books, (1981) ISBN 978-0-4410-6709-1
  • Eternal Enemy, Wm. Morrow, (1990) ISBN 978-0-8779-5963-2
  • References

    Michael Berlyn Wikipedia