Veronika Megler
Veronika Margaret Megler (born 14 October 1960) is an Australian computer scientist. Megler is currently principal data scientist at Amazon Web Services, but is well known as the co-developer of The Hobbit, a 1982 text adventure game adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Education
Megler was born in 1960, and educated in Melbourne at Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, where she was school valedictorian in science. She began studying science at the University of Melbourne, intending to major in statistics but switching to a computer science major which she found more enjoyable.[1]
Beam Software
At university, she saw a job notice for a position as a programmer at video game development studio Beam Software/Melbourne House, which she successfully applied for. She recruited her friend, Philip Mitchell, into Beam and the two began working on an illustrated interactive fiction game based on The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, with Megler concentrating on the game's physics system and a measure of autonomy for non-player characters.[1]
Megler and Mitchell also developed another Beam game, Penetrator, also released in 1982.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Veronika Megler". Play It Again... Remembering 1980's gaming. Our Digital Heritage. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ Rollings, Andrew. The ZX Spectrum Book – 1982 to 199X. ISBN 9780977998395.