[game_preservation] History of "game engine"

[Henry Lowood]

Hey Alex,
Infocom and LucasArts (SCUMM) were my first thoughts, and we have 
Meretzky's papers here, so I can check out Infocom pretty easily. I'm 
skeptical, but I am keeping an open mind.  An important aspect for the 
stuff I am looking at is the separation of the "engine" from assets.  
Probably a lot will depend on how the data libraries were organized for 
the Infocom and LucasArts projects, and it will take me a while to sort 
that out. If anybody knows of good documentation, let me know.
Henry

On 8/7/2012 2:20 PM, Alex Handy wrote:

>

> 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 

> <mailto: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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