[game_preservation] History of "game engine"

[Alex Handy]

Well, wordwise, I bet id is the first.
On Aug 7, 2012 8:49 PM, "Henry Lowood" <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:


>  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> 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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