Steve MeretszkyVideo Game Developer

My guest today is the American video game developer Steve Meretzky. Born and raised in Yonkers, New York, he attended MIT, where he earned a degree in construction management. In 1981, after two years spent working in the construction industry, a friend asked him if he would like to become a tester for Infocom, a publisher that specialised in interactive fiction. He agreed and was soon invited to write a game of his own, the science fiction game Planetfall. After he included a reference to Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the game, my guest was invited to collaborate with Adams in adapting the novel into a best-selling game. In 1988 he wrote A Mind Forever Voyaging, an ambitious and politically charged work that stretched the boundaries of what a video game could do --and saw him become one of the first interactive fiction writers admitted to the Science Fiction Writers of 3:54 -0:06 K Estelle's Echo Dot After stints working for Blue Fang Games, Playdom and King, he is currently VP of design at the mobile games company PeopleFun.