[game_preservation] History of "game engine"

[Alex Handy]

Text game engines. Infocom probably called it something different, but
that's what it was.

Gold box dnd games, also.
On Aug 7, 2012 2:18 PM, "Henry Lowood" <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:


> Hi all,

>

> I'm working on a project having to do with the history of the game engine

> (as concept, technology, etc.) and its various impacts on game design and

> other things.  So, here is a question for this group.  Does anybody want to

> make a claim that there was a relevant use of the term in game design

> BEFORE id Software began to use the term.  I've done some analysis with the

> Google database (n-grams, etc.) and I find no evidence of anything like

> that, plus John Romero believes that id coined the term as we use it today.

>   (And I agree.)

>

> Anyway, if you think you have or know of a counter-claim, please let me

> know and I'll check on it.  Source references welcome, of course.

>

> Henry

>

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