Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling, Second Edition

Bio

Chris Crawford earned a Master of Science degree in Physics from the University of Missouri in 1975. After teaching physics for several years, he joined Atari as a game designer in 1979. There he created a number of games: Energy Czar, an educational simulation about the energy crisis; Scram, a nuclear power plant simulation; Eastern Front (1941), a wargame; Gossip, a social interaction game; and Excalibur, an Arthurian game.

Following the collapse of Atari in 1984, Crawford took up the Macintosh. He created Balance of Power, a game about diplomacy; Patton Versus Rommel, a wargame; Trust & Betrayal, a social interaction game; Balance of the Planet, an environmental simulation game; and Patton Strikes Back, a wargame. In 1992, Crawford decided ...