Michael Berlyn

Michael Berlyn is an American video game designer and writer. He is best known as an Implementor at Infocom, part of the text adventure game design team.[1]

Berlyn joined Marc Blank in founding the game company Eidetic, which later became Sony Bend. In 1998, Berlyn started a new game company, Cascade Mountain Publishing, whose goals were to publish ebooks and interactive fiction. Cascade Mountain Publishing went out of business in 2000.[2]

Berlyn created a "light-jazz" band called Hot Mustard, made up entirely of his own music and performances.[3]

On August 18, 2015, it was announced that Michael is currently battling against cancer.[4] After seven months of chemo and radiation therapy, Berlyn is cancer-free as of 9/15/2015.

Partial gameography

Partial list of gameography:[5]

Novels

References

  1. Horowitz, Ken (August 1, 2006). "Interview: Mike Berlyn". Sega - 16. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  2. "Michael Berlyn". Infocom. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  3. Bowen, Christopher (February 4, 2011). "Diehard GameFAN Hall of Shame: Bubsy 3D". Diehard GameFAN. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  4. "(August 2015) Mike Berlyn, creator of Infocom & Bubsy games , with Cancer". atariage.com. 2015-08-18. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  5. "Michael Berlyn". Moby Games. Retrieved February 8, 2015.

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