Judith Pintar

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JUDITH PINTAR is an author of Interactive Fiction (IF), one of the only women releasing Shareware IF in the early 1990s. She is also a sociologist, a Celtic harp player, and a composer of instrumental music. Interactive fiction Pintar is the author of CosmoServe, an IF that simulates the interface of Compuserve Information Service (CIS), the first major online service provider before and during the early years of the World Wide Web. The game was written using an early game design system for IF, Adventure Game Toolkit (AGT) developed by Mark Welch and David Malmberg, and won the 5th Annual Softworks AGT game-writing contest in 1991. The following year Shades of Gray: an Adventure in Black and White, a game co-authored by a team of Compuserve Gamer’s Forum members, for which Pintar was the principle designer, won the 6th Annual AGT contest in the group category. Shades of Gray is “generally considered the finest AGT game of all time.” The collaborative authorship of the game is referenced as an example of the kinds of creative possibilities that emerged within the early online IF community. Both games were published in a book and CD by David Gerrold, Fatal Distractions: 87 Of the Very Best Ways to Get Beaten, Eaten, Maimed, and Mauled on Your PC, (Waite Group, 1997). Academics Pintar received a Master’s Degree in Anthropology and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a concentration in science and technology studies, and an area fo

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