Clark C. Abt (born 31 July 1929) is a German-born American researcher.
He became an American citizen in 1945, at age 16, and is known for first formalizing the concept and usages of serious games.
He then served four months in the merchant navy as a seaman, then spent a year at Johns Hopkins University as an English teacher, eventually obtaining a master's degree in the Writing, Discourse and Drama Department for his thesis, titled A Year of Poems.
[1] He married Wendy Peter on November 3, 1971, fathering a son and daughter.
[6] This interest probably stemmed from Abt's involvement with the development of TEMPER, an early computer wargame designed for a Cold War context.