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50 YEARS OF TEXT GAMES: FROM OREGON TRAIL TO A.I. DUNGEON

Aaron A. Reed



 

Adventure. Trade Wars. Fallen London. Galatea and Photopia. Pixelberry's Choices. Lifeline. ELIZA. 80 Days. And everything in between...


For fifty years, writers have been creating interactive stories on digital platforms. From text adventures to VR poetry, MUDS to mobile dating sims, chatbots to roguelikes, these games without graphics have often pioneered new techniques for interactive storytelling, engaged imaginations with beautiful prose and clever gameplay, and discovered the many ways written stories can be played. Often forgotten, frequently overlooked, they're still worth remembering today.


Now you can help preserve the stories of these games and the people who make them in a beautiful, collectible book chronicling the first half-century of video games made from words.


In the book you'll find fifty in-depth chapters, covering fifty games: one released in each year from 1971—when a Minnesota teacher wheeled a teletype into his class to debut a game called The Oregon Trail—to 2020 and the latest in A.I. storytellers. Revised and enhanced from the acclaimed blog series, each featured game gets a rich, deep-dive analysis into how it works, what it's about, why it's special, and its lasting legacy.

 

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TAGS Authors: #AaronAReed Publishers: TBD Languages: #English Format: #eBook #Hardcover #Paperback Accessibility: TBD Year: TBD Genres: #Compendium #EarlyYears #PCGaming Companies: #Pixelberry (Pixelberry Studios) Public Figures: N/A Games: #80Days (80 Days) #Adventure (Adventure) #AIDungeon (AI Dungeon) #Choices (Choices) #ELIZA (ELIZA) #FallenLondon (Fallen London) #Galatea (Galatea) #Lifeline (Lifeline) #Photopia (Photopia) #TheOregonTrail (The Oregon Trail) #TradeWars (Trade Wars) Misc: N/A

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