Michael Berlyn

Michael Berlyn (born 1949) is an American video game designer and writer. He is best known as an implementer at Infocom, part of the text adventure game design team.[1]

Michael Berlyn
Born1949 (age 71–72)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer
EmployerInfocom, Accolade
Known forCo-founder of Bend Studio
Notable work
Suspended
Bubsy
Bubsy 3D
Spouse(s)Muffy Berlyn

Brainwave Creations was a small game programming company started by Michael Berlyn. The company was founded in the mid-1980s, and is probably best known for co-creating Tass Times in Tonetown along with Interplay's Rebecca Heineman.

Berlyn joined Marc Blank in founding the game company Eidetic, which later became Bend Studio. In the midst of working on the company's second game, Syphon Filter, Berlyn left the video game industry. He later explained, "I did not like what the game business had become, the people who were driving it, or the nature of the product. I left before it was done and said, 'Do not put my name on the product.' I walked away from my own company. When you tell me you want to put a monk or a nun in my game and have them standing there holding guns so I can justify having the players shoot them, I think that crosses the boundaries of good taste. It doesn't offend ME, but it's got to be in bad taste, and you have to know that."[2] In 1998, Berlyn started Cascade Mountain Publishing, whose goals were to publish ebooks and interactive fiction. Cascade Mountain Publishing went out of business in 2000.[3]

After his business ventures collapsed, Berlyn return to the video game industry, with a focus on casual games.[2]

Berlyn created a "light-jazz" band called Hot Mustard, made up entirely of his own music and performances.[4]

Gameography

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Novels
  • The Integrated Man, Bantam Books, (1980) ISBN 978-0-5531-3999-0
  • Crystal Phoenix, Bantam Books, (1980) ISBN 978-0-5531-3468-1
  • Blight as Mark Sonders, Ace Books, (1981) ISBN 978-0-4410-6709-1
  • Eternal Enemy, Wm. Morrow, (1990) ISBN 978-0-8779-5963-2

References
  1. Horowitz, Ken (August 1, 2006). "Interview: Mike Berlyn". Sega - 16. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  2. Cifaldi, Frank (3 October 2005). "Playing Catch-Up: Bubsy's Michael Berlyn". Gamasutra. UBM TechWeb. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  3. "Michael Berlyn". Infocom. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  4. Bowen, Christopher (February 4, 2011). "Diehard GameFAN Hall of Shame: Bubsy 3D". Diehard GameFAN. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  5. "Michael Berlyn". Moby Games. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
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