Most notably was Morningstar's role as project leader for Lucasfilm's Habitat, the first large-scale virtual multiuser environment.
[2] Morningstar graduated from University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering[5] in 1981[citation needed].
[citation needed] While at Lucasfilm, Morningstar held the position of Project Leader for Habitat, an early graphical online multiplayer environment, released in 1986.
[citation needed] Morningstar also worked on the SCUMM game engine, used in Maniac Mansion (1987)[12][13] and Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (1988).
[14] Presenting at the Second International Conference on Cyberspace in 1991, Morningstar and Randy Farmer found themselves bemused by the seemingly impenetrable postmodern "lit crit" of some academic speakers.
[16] After the conference, he analyzed the leading names in postmodern literary theory and philosophy of the era to determine if there was anything of value hidden behind the dense verbiage, if the underlying concepts were "bogus", or if there was actually no intellectual content at all.
Morningstar ultimately determined "there is indeed some content, much of it interesting", but he also wrote: "The language and idea space of the field have become so convoluted that they have confused even themselves."
[18] Morningstar was chief architect at American Information Exchange Corporation,[2] and worked at Electric Communities[19] (with Randy Farmer and Douglas Crockford),[20] which acquired The Palace,[9] the world's largest graphical chat system at the time[citation needed].