Editing Dave Lebling (section)

==Life and career==
He was born in [[Washington, D.C.]], grew up in [[Maryland]], and attended [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], where he obtained a degree in [[political science]] before becoming a member of its Laboratory for Computer Science.

After encountering the original ''[[Colossal Cave Adventure|Adventure]]'' game (also called ''Colossal Cave''), he was fascinated by the concept and—together with [[Marc Blank]], [[Tim Anderson (Zork)|Tim Anderson]] and [[Bruce Daniels]]—set out to write an adventure game with a better [[parser]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lebling |first1=P.D. |last2=Blank |first2=M.S. |first3=T.A.| last3=Anderson |year=1980 |title=Zork:A Computerized Fantasy Simulation Game |journal=IEEE Computer |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=51–59 |publisher=IEEE Computer Society |doi=10.1109/MC.1979.1658697 |s2cid=7845131 }}</ref> which became ''[[Zork]]''. In 1979, he became one of the founders of Infocom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_55/332-The-Short-Happy-Life-of-Infocom|title=The Short, Happy Life of Infocom|publisher=[[The Escapist (magazine)|The Escapist]]|first=Lara|last=Crigger|date=July 25, 2006|access-date=October 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127183302/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_55/332-The-Short-Happy-Life-of-Infocom |archive-date=November 27, 2010}}</ref>

His games include ''[[Zork]] I,'' ''II'' and ''III'', ''[[Starcross (video game)|Starcross]]'', ''[[Suspect (computer game)|Suspect]]'', ''[[Spellbreaker]]'', ''[[The Lurking Horror]]'', ''[[Maze (1973 video game)|Maze]]'' and ''[[James Clavell's Shōgun]]''.

After Infocom's end in 1989, Lebling worked on a [[Graphical user interface|GUI]] [[spreadsheet]] program, joined [[Avid Technology|Avid]] (a company doing special effects for broadcast and film), and designed server applications at [[Ucentric]].

Lebling currently resides in [[Concord, Massachusetts]] with his wife. He is a programmer for British defense contractor [[BAE Systems]].