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Friday, January 25, 2008

Unmissable: Steve Meretzky On 'The Most Perfect Video Game'

This is the oddest, most wonderful thing. You might know Steve Meretzky from his pioneering work at Infocom, working on his own to create Planetfall and A Mind Forever Voyaging, and with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventures.

Since then, he's bounced around the industry in an endearing fashion, spreading impish creative wit wherever he goes, and most recently joined up with Blue Fang, where he's helping them be Zoo Tycoons in fine fashion.

But in this case, he's caught at the Boston Postmortem, a game development-related gathering, and his Google Video-stored 'rant', captured by Jason 'Textfiles.com' Scott, is simply called 'The Most Perfect Game'.

The full seven-minute mini-rant is embedded below - be prepared for randomness, truth and an uplifting game-specific punchline [link semi-via Grand Text Auto]:

Comments

Leather Godesses of Phobos 2! Yay!

floyd rip

It's so nice to see this amazing guy, one of the last people in this industry believing more in literary than managerial skills mind you, being once again publicly funny and smart.

AH! An excellent video. Which reminds me, anyone else played SUperhero League of Hoboken?

Meretzky is awesome. This is an axiom.

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