{"id":8156,"date":"2022-09-22T16:06:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2022-09-22T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:06:48","slug":"i-saw-the-possibility-of-what-could-be-done-so-i-did-it-revolutionary-video-game-the-hobbit-turns-40-games-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8156","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I saw the possibility of what could be done \u2013 so I did it\u2019: revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40 | Games | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/sep\/22\/i-saw-the-possibility-of-what-could-be-done-so-i-did-it-revolutionary-video-game-the-hobbit-turns-40\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b56cadd1f9cd384fcf90d041c9385dcca30f1c93\/0_0_2828_2179\/master\/2828.jpg?width=380&amp;quality=85&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1b82d05792aab8ab9340cab41e064d12\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Guardian has a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veronika_Megler\">Veronika Megler<\/a> who developed the innovative text (and image) adventure game <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hobbit_(1982_video_game)\">The Hobbit<\/a> (1982),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/sep\/22\/i-saw-the-possibility-of-what-could-be-done-so-i-did-it-revolutionary-video-game-the-hobbit-turns-40\">\u2018I saw the possibility of what could be done \u2013 so I did it\u2019: revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40<\/a>. She went on to get a PhD and now is principal data scientist at Amazon Web Services!<\/p>\n<p>You can now play <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/msdos_Hobbit_The_1983\">The Hobbit on the Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 The Guardian has a story on Veronika Megler who developed the innovative text (and image) adventure game The Hobbit (1982),\u00a0\u2018I saw the possibility of what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I saw the possibility of what could be done \u2013 so I did it\u2019: revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40 | Games | The Guardian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,25,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-hypertext-fiction","category-literature","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}