Scott Murphy (born October 13, 1954) is an American video game
designer, programmer, and writer who developed several adventure
games, mostly for Sierra On-Line. He is best known for creating the
Space Quest series, mostly with his fellow "Guy from Andromeda", Mark
Crowe.Murphy started out in Sierra's hometown of Oakhurst, California
by cooking at a local restaurant. When his friend Doug Oldfield joined
Sierra, Murphy discovered his love for adventure games and soon joined
the company himself. Murphy worked his way up from customer support to
actually working on games. He first worked with Mark Crowe on The
Black Cauldron. Crowe was the Art Director for the game when Murphy
was added as a programmer. Murphy slowly became the only programmer on
the project: "I put in a lot of free time over a summer spending
nights out at his house debugging Black Cauldron. And then I ended up
being the only one working on it. After a while, Ken and Al Lowe
bailed out on me. So I got Black Cauldron shipping, and I was
hooked."During the development of The Black Cauldron, Murphy and Crowe
discovered their mutual fondness for science fiction. Eventually, they
created a four-room concept to propose to Sierra founder Ken Williams
that would eventually become the beginning scenes of Space Quest.
First released in 1986, Space Quest was a quick hit among adventure
game fans and Murphy worked with Crowe to develop another three games,
ending with Space Quest IV in 1991. During this time, Murphy also
worked on games from other series, including King's Quest, EcoQuest,
and Police Quest. After Space Quest IV, Crowe moved to work at Eugene,
Oregon, home of Sierra subsidiary Dynamix, where he developed Space
Quest V without Murphy's input. Space Quest returned to Murphy after
Sierra came to him with a Space Quest 6 that had been started by Josh
Mandel before he was ejected from the project. In 1997, Murphy began
work on a proposed Space Quest 7, which was shelved and restarted
several times until Sierra finally closed down its Oakhurst facility
on February 22, 1999, in a layoff called "Chainsaw Monday" by Murphy.
Murphy had been fired a month and a half prior, and as he had no
formal education beyond high school, took up odd jobs and eventually
moved to Alabama to support his mother.In 2012, Murphy and Crowe came
back together, and were joined by Chris Pope to start their own
company called Guys from Andromeda. Following a successful Kickstarter
campaign, they began work on a project called SpaceVenture as a
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