LucasArts - The Early Years (Part 5 of 12)

David Fox talks about his early work on LucasArts games. He was a founding member of the Games Division at LucasFilm and was the designer, project leader, and one of the programmers for the games "Rescue on Fractalus!", "Labyrinth", "Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure". He also worked on "Maniac Mansion" as the primary script programmer. Fox was part of the memorable team that included Ron Gilbert and Noah Falstein.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LucasArts

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[HardWarUK]

Don't get me wrong - I love the old Lucas games - but because of them, we do not have fantastic interactive books with whole dictionaries as databases so it would be impossible to not get the word, and full English parsers that allowed natural English. We would also have much better AI in games today and much better stories and characterizations.