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Doug Dyment on King of Sumeria, interviewed by Kate Willaert

Dyment, Doug and Kate Willaert. 2019. “Doug Dyment on King of Sumeria, interviewed by Kate Willaert.” A Critical Hit!, in “The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of”.

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Dyment, interviewed by Willaert (2019)
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Doug Dyment, quoted by Kate Willaert.
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The statements by Dyment printed in willaert-2019-sumerian-game, filed as an interview so they count as primary. Only his quoted words and the facts Willaert attributes to him ("Dyment told me") are cited from it.

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Doug Dyment, then at DEC in Canada, told Kate Willaert he wrote the game, which he titled King of Sumeria, as a demonstration program after a graduate student at a university in Alberta described The Sumerian Game to him.Interview
Hamurabi descends from The Sumerian Game through Dyment's FOCAL Sumer Game, which Ahl converted to BASIC, and which Dyment based on a description of The Sumerian Game.Publisher