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One of my motivations for writing a compiler was to get my game Empire to run faster.

Wound up with a career writing compilers, not games.

Wow, I was not expecting this, but "Empire" was the name of the game I have been looking for for a few years. I even asked on Reddit about a year ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/6wq2t1/tomtg...), but without any luck.

I played empire (in the classic text mode) together with my dad probably more than 20 years ago.

Thank you for the game (I have lots of fond memories playing this with my dad), and for reminding me what the name was!

For anyone else who was wondering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright

Why not just link to the homepage itself, instead of wikipedia... ? Has much more information.

http://www.walterbright.com/

Might be considered as a less biased list of achievements (not that I'm saying that Walter Bright's list on his website is biased).

One's name is one's brand, and where practical I recommend that people buy yourname.com and own your brand, rather than relying on the vagaries of what others may say about you.

Sure, it's fine to own your own brand–but personally (being blessed to not have a brand image), I tend to put more weight on what other people have to say about someone than what they say about themselves. Though, of course, it's often interesting to see what people tend to put on their personal pages; often what they're proud about differs significantly from what they're famous about.

When I googled his name, the Wikipedia page was the top result.

That's an impressively smooth yak.

Do you think you'd ever go back and try to make a game once again? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14877776

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