{"id":7103,"date":"2022-09-22T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T07:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/22\/i-saw-the-possibility-of-what-could-be-done-so-i-did-it-revolutionary-video-game-the-hobbit-turns-40\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T07:38:16","slug":"i-saw-the-possibility-of-what-could-be-done-so-i-did-it-revolutionary-video-game-the-hobbit-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/22\/i-saw-the-possibility-of-what-could-be-done-so-i-did-it-revolutionary-video-game-the-hobbit-turns-40\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I saw the possibility of what could be done \u2013 so I did it\u2019: revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"

The developer of the text-adventure game on how, at 20, she overcame 1980s misogyny to turn a Tolkien book into one of the most groundbreaking titles in the gaming canon<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As a teenager, Veronika Megler was intent on becoming a statistician. She signed up for a computer science course at Melbourne University, reasoning it would assist her chosen career. \u201cI think there were four women in a class of about 220 people, and it was pretty misogynistic,\u201d she recalls. Megler had already built her own PC, buying the motherboard, chips, capacitors and diodes from an electronics shop in Melbourne. \u201cIn the store they\u2019d say \u2018tell your boyfriend we don\u2019t have these\u2019,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n

Realising that statistics wasn\u2019t for her, Megler answered a newspaper advert for a part-time programming job at a local software company called Melbourne House. It was 1980, and she was halfway through a course that focused on designing operating systems and developing programming languages. \u201cThe day I was hired, the first thing my boss said to me was, \u2018write the best adventure game ever,\u2019\u201d she remembers. The eventual result of this instruction was The Hobbit, a landmark 1982 text adventure game that\u2019s still fondly remembered today.<\/p>\n

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\nThe developer of the text-adventure game on how, at 20, she overcame 1980s misogyny to turn a Tolkien book into one of the most groundbreaking titles in the gaming canon<\/p>\n

As a teenager, Veronika Megler was intent on becoming a statistician. She signed up for a computer science course at Melbourne University, reasoning it would assist her chosen career. \u201cI think there were four women in a class of about 220 people, and it was pretty misogynistic,\u201d she recalls. Megler had already built her own PC, buying the motherboard, chips, capacitors and diodes from an electronics shop in Melbourne. \u201cIn the store they\u2019d say \u2018tell your boyfriend we don\u2019t have these\u2019,\u201d she recalls.
\nRealising that statistics wasn\u2019t for her, Megler answered a newspaper advert for a part-time programming job at a local software company called Melbourne House. It was 1980, and she was halfway through a course that focused on designing operating systems and developing programming languages. \u201cThe day I was hired, the first thing my boss said to me was, \u2018write the best adventure game ever,\u2019\u201d she remembers. The eventual result of this instruction was The Hobbit, a landmark 1982 text adventure game that\u2019s still fondly remembered today. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The developer of the text-adventure game on how, at 20, she overcame 1980s misogyny to turn a Tolkien book into one of the most groundbreaking titles in the gaming canon As a teenager, Veronika Megler was intent on becoming a statistician. She signed up for a computer science course at Melbourne University, reasoning it would …<\/p>\n

\u2018I saw the possibility of what could be done \u2013 so I did it\u2019: revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}