Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide

For it's 30th anniversary, the BBC released a free to play version: https://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2game

It is not easy; but there are hints! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3tmVKGc4dR463kWs0g...

Here's a great interview with Steve where he goes over his life story & favourite video games https://shows.acast.com/my-perfect-console/episodes/steve-me...

Related reading, Andy Baio's article from 2008 digging into the contents of a hard drive from Infocom:

https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_seque...

We talked with the designer behind games such as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging and Leather Goddesses of Phobos.

American game designer Steve Meretzky startet his career at Infocom, where he created some of the great adventure classics of the eighties. For instance, it was he who got the task of making the official Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game together with author Douglas Adams, a game that became a massive bestseller and is still remembered for its great jokes and devilish puzzles.

Other related reading, the excellent piece from the Digital Antiquarian :

https://www.filfre.net/2024/07/the-later-years-of-douglas-ad...

> Douglas, procrastinator that he was, was already a year past his deadline for delivering the manuscript for So Long And Thanks For All The Fish to his publisher … and he hadn’t yet written a word.

Jesus, I feel anxious just reading that.