# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-meretzky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:51:54.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-meretzky"
name: "Steve Meretzky"
slug: "steve-meretzky"
description: "Steven Eric Meretzky is an American video game developer. He is best known for creating Infocom games in the early 1980s, including collaborating with author Douglas Adams on the interactive fiction game of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, one of the first games to be certified \"platinum\" by the Software Publishers Association. Later, he created the Spellcasting trilogy, the flagship adventure series of Legend Entertainment. He has been involved in almost every aspect of game development, from design to production to quality assurance and box design."
tagline: "American video game developer (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Meretzky_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1957-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.554501333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580682/"
    handle:    "nm0580682"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/89139f87-211f-4440-8ef9-eee97b41db1f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "ستيف مرتزكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Meretzky"
    title: "Steve Meretzky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Meretzky"
    title: "Steve Meretzky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Meretzky"
    title: "Steve Meretzky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Meretzky"
    title: "Steve Meretzky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Meretzky"
    title: "Steve Meretzky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365793"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump