{"id":1992,"date":"2011-11-27T23:07:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T04:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2011-11-27T23:13:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T04:13:54","slug":"brian-moriarty-to-speak-at-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/11\/brian-moriarty-to-speak-at-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Moriarty to Speak at MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Boston area? Please join us for a talk by<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brian Moriarty<\/p>\n<p>Creator of <i>Wishbringer, Trinity, Loom,<\/i> and other interactive fiction and graphic adventure titles<\/p>\n<p>and professor of practice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beyond Zork: Games &#038; Interactive Fiction&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monday, November 28, 5:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>MIT\u2019s room\u00a06-120<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brian\u00a0Moriarty built his first computer in the fifth grade. He began<br \/>\npublishing games in the early\u00a01980s and in 1984 joined legendary text<br \/>\nadventure company Infocom, where he authored three award-winning interactive fiction titles,\u00a0<i>Wishbringer<\/i> (1985), <i>Trinity<\/i> (1986) and <i>Beyond\u00a0Zork<\/i> (1987). His first graphic adventure game, <i>Loom,<\/i> was published in 1990 by\u00a0Lucasfilm Games to wide critical acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Angus N. MacDonald Fund<\/p>\n<p>As always, this <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/if\/purple_blurb\/\">Purple Blurb<\/a> event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Boston area? Please join us for a talk by \u00a0 Brian Moriarty Creator of Wishbringer, Trinity, Loom, and other interactive fiction and graphic adventure titles and professor of practice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute &#8220;Beyond Zork: Games &#038; Interactive Fiction&#8221; Monday, November 28, 5:30 pm MIT\u2019s room\u00a06-120 \u00a0 Brian\u00a0Moriarty built his first computer in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/11\/brian-moriarty-to-speak-at-mit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brian Moriarty to Speak at MIT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,40,11,24,3,36,13],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digital","tag-fiction","tag-games","tag-gatherings","tag-if","tag-mit","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}