Matthew Clark
| Matthew Clark | |
|---|---|
 Clark in 2021 | |
| Full name | Matthew Clark |
| Notability |
Adventure author, Webmaster |
| Location | Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Website | clarkbhm.com |
Matthew Clark is the author of the Eamon adventure The Sword of Inari, created in 1999 and released in June 2003, and is the creator of the Eamon Adventurer's Guild Online website which launched in 2003 and continues to be hosted by A.P.P.L.E. Clark has contributed reviews and editing assistance to The Interactive Fiction Database and Interactive Fiction Reviews.
Background
In correspondence with Huw Williams in 2021, Clark writes that he first started playing Eamon around 1983 when his father got copies of the first 10 adventures, and became a member of the National Eamon User's Club when it formed in 1984. "I was only eight years old at the time," he recalls, "but I was hooked. I loved playing the games and loved reading the newsletters as well."
For many years Clark wanted to create his own custom Eamon adventure and made a few aborted starts using the Dungeon Design program, but it wasn't until 1998 that he settled on a story line that he thought would work well. He planned it out over the next few months into 1999, then while in law school in 2003 worked on the adventure's programming and submitted the finished adventure — The Sword of Inari — to Tom Zuchowski at the Eamon Adventurer's Guild.
Around the same time Clark converted his collection of Eamon club newsletters into a modern electronic format and posted them to his newly launched website, the Eamon Adventurer's Guild Online. The site launched in April 2003 at Earthlink and moved later that year to A.P.P.L.E. which continues to host the site.
Clark works for a large university as an attorney specializing in non-profit fundraising and gifts through estate planning. He is married, has two children, and enjoys travel, geography, flags, history, spaceflight, and science fiction and fantasy books and movies.