Veteran programmer, designer and The Learning Company founder Warren Robinett took to the stage at GDC 2015 last month to deliver a thorough, engaging postmortem on the creation of his hit 1979 game Adventure for the Atari 2600 console. 

If you're not familiar with the game, know that Adventure is particularly notable for (among other things) being one of the first graphical action-adventure games ever released. 

Adventure also contained one of the earliest known “Easter eggs” ever hidden in a game by a designer -- in this case, a hidden screen revealing Atari employee Robinett’s name and authorship at a time when Atari was unwilling to publicly credit game makers for their work. 

Thus his efforts to create Adventure meaningfully advanced both the practice of game development and the fight for developers to be recognized for their work. His talk on the topic was excellent, and you can watch it right now for free via the GDC Vault.

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