Lebling

Lebling is a surname. Notable individuals with this name include David Lebling, an American computer programmer and game designer best known for co-creating the text adventure game Zork at Infocom in the 1980s. Lebling contributed to the design and implementation of Zork and helped establish many conventions of interactive fiction, including parser-driven gameplay and narrative-driven exploration.

Zork and the Infocom catalog are regarded as milestones in the history of video games, contributing to the development of the interactive fiction genre and influencing later narrative-driven games. Lebling’s work is frequently cited in histories of computing and gaming as an early example of collaborative software design and storytelling within a technical medium. While details about his later projects vary, his role in the creation of Zork remains a notable part of early computer game history.