Joseph Wheattree
Joseph is the owner of Equus Oils and a friend of Lula and Donald from their college days. Joseph has gray hair, is blind, and wears dark glasses. Joseph created the XANADU software with Lula and Donald, and also adapted two of Lem Doolittle's plays for performance as The Entertainment.
Life and work
Joseph created the game "If I Had My Way, I’d Tear the Building Down" in 1985, shown in the (text) museum near the Márquez Farmhouse. In the Rust Archives, two sets of samples are under Joseph's name: "Mexico City, VAM Station Wagon, 1974" and "Elizabethtown, Kinetic Sculpture, 1968."
Family
Joseph has a niece who works at a hospital.
Name
Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum (with "Weizenbaum" meaning "wheat tree" in German), who created ELIZA (which was named after Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle), a computer program that took on the persona of a psychotherapist – notablysimilar to the "Psychotherapist" game found on Joseph's computer at Equus Oils); this program had a large influence on the development of text adventure games.
