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'''Tim Anderson''' is an American [[computer programmer]] best known for co-creating the [[adventure game]] ''[[Zork]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |last=Woyke |first=Elizabeth |date=August 22, 2017 |title=The Enduring Legacy of Zork |work=MIT Technology Review |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/08/22/149560/the-enduring-legacy-of-zork/}}</ref> one of the first works of [[interactive fiction]] and an early descendant of ''[[Colossal Cave Adventure|ADVENT]]'' (also known as ''Colossal Cave Adventure'').<ref name=enduring>{{Cite web |date=May 2, 2014 |title=GDC 2014 - Zork Post-Mortem |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/26224 |website=Adventure Gamers}}</ref>
==Career==
While attending [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], Anderson got his start in game development by developing the game ''Trivia'' (1976) alongside future collaborator [[Marc Blank]] for the [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[PDP-10]], the school's mainframe, playable over [[ARPANET]].<ref name=zorkhist>{{Cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Tim |last2=Galley |first2=Stu |title=The History of Zork |url=http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/NZT/zorkhist.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116035446/http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/NZT/zorkhist.html |access-date=June 27, 2023|archive-date=January 16, 2009 }}</ref> ''Trivia''
The home computer ports of ''Zork'' would prove immensely successful, and Infocom grew rapidly, focusing on producing new text adventures, as well as branching out into business software.<ref name=down/> Anderson would take on the title of "senior scientist, special-projects programmer" within the company, mostly assisting with development of new games.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rouse |first1=Richard |title=Game Design: Theory and Practice |date=2004 |isbn=9781556229121 |page=180 |edition=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ivory |first1=James |title=Virtual Lives |date=2012 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781598845860 |page=124}}</ref> The company's expansion into business software ultimately caused them to de-emphasize game production, which lead to their eventual demise in 1989.<ref name=down/><ref>{{cite web |title=Stick to What You Know: Infocom and the Perils of Expansion |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/computer-games/16/196 |website=The Computer History Museum}}</ref>▼
After Infocom shut down, Anderson held a variety of positions in the defense and business sectors, including serving as the [[Chief technology officer|CTO]] of
▲The home computer ports of ''Zork'' would prove immensely successful, and Infocom grew rapidly, focusing on producing new text adventures, as well as branching out into business software.<ref name=down/> The company's expansion into business software ultimately caused them to de-emphasize game production, which lead to their eventual demise in 1989.<ref name=down/><ref>{{cite web |title=Stick to What You Know: Infocom and the Perils of Expansion |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/computer-games/16/196 |website=The Computer History Museum}}</ref>
▲After Infocom shut down, Anderson held a variety of positions in the defense and business sectors, including serving as the [[Chief technology officer|CTO]] of Offroad Capital, an internet startup for investing in private equity.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Waldrop |first1=Mitchell |title=Computing's Johnny Appleseed |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2000/01/01/236431/computings-johnny-appleseed/ |work=MIT Technology Review |date=January 1, 2000}}</ref><ref name=patch>{{Cite web |last=McNamara |first=Neal |date=2023-03-22 |title=Sudbury 2023 Candidate Profile: Timothy Anderson, Goodnow Board |url=https://patch.com/massachusetts/sudbury/sudbury-2023-candidate-profile-timothy-anderson-goodnow-board |access-date= |website=Sudbury Patch |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Anderson obtained his
==References==
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