| Eamon | |
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| Developer(s) | Donald Brown |
| Publisher(s) | Public domain |
| Platform(s) | Apple II, Atari ST |
| Release | 1980 |
| Genre(s) | Role-playing video game, game creation system |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Eamon, sometimes known as The Wonderful World of Eamon, is a game creation system and a role-playing adventure game series created by Donald Brown and released for the Apple II in 1980. The game is a text adventure similar to other early titles like Adventure (1976) or Zork (1980) and to later text-based multi-user dungeons (MUDs), though with many role-playing elements not available in other interactive fiction.[1] Eamon software is non-commercial[2] and is freely available in the public domain.
- ^ Montfort, Nick (2005) [2004]. "The Independents". Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-262-13436-1.
Some special-purpose interactive fiction development systems were used by the ordinary home computer owner of the 1980s. An important early one was Donald Brown's 1980 freeware system Eamon, a system for creating text-based role-playing games... Eamon was used to create more than 240 games.
- ^ Brown, Donald; Zuchowski, Tom (1989-02-09). "Eamon Player's Manual, Revised". Eamon Wiki. Retrieved 2019-11-27.