THE COLOSSAL ADVENTURE

Leslie Rising
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Jesús Martínez del Vas

The Colossal Adventure, in its 240 full-color pages, chronicles the history of interactive fiction, from its beginnings to the present day. Text adventures originated as experiments at Stanford University and the legendary MIT, on whose mainframe computers the well-known Adventure and Zork games were developed. The book details the work of pioneers like Will Crowther and Don Woods, the founding of Infocom, and the introduction of interactive fiction to the home market with Adventure International and Scott Adams.

You'll discover the inner workings of famous adventures like The Hobbit, and review in detail the history of Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls, and CRL. The book dedicates ample space to analyzing the main adventure creation tools, the current state of the genre, and includes an extensive section detailing the history of text adventures in Spain through the eyes of its key figures, from the beloved Yenght by Dinamic to the decline of Aventuras AD.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

LANGUAGE	BINDING	EDITION	ISBN	YEAR	PAGES
Spanish	Hardcover		9788417389314	2019	240

OTHER NAMES

La Aventura Colosal: Historias de las Aventuras Conversacionales