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The “50 Years of Text Games” Book is a Go!!

My book on the incredible history of interactive fiction launched TODAY on Kickstarter.

Jun 7, 2022

The “50 Years of Text Games” Book is a Go!!

Jun 7, 2022

Thomas M. Disch’s “Amnesia” (1986)

A look at the flawed, fascinating, doomed text adventure with a script by a leading sci-fi writer, and ambitions too big for its disks…

Jun 16, 2022

Thomas M. Disch’s “Amnesia” (1986)

Jun 16, 2022

Crowther’s and Woods’ Adventure maps, side by side

The upcoming 50 Years of Text Games book will hopefully* include this set of two-page spreads with maps of two versions of the classic…

Jun 10, 2022

Crowther’s and Woods’ Adventure maps, side by side

Jun 10, 2022

Reddit AMA for “50 Years of Text Games”

This morning(Thursday June 9th), I’m doing an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit’s popular /r/Games channel. If you’re not familiar with AMAs…

Jun 9, 2022

Cover of “50 Years of Text Games”

Jun 9, 2022

The first digital text on a screen…

When and what was the first digital text shown on a screen? It depends, as always, on your exact definitions of those words. But…

May 31, 2022

Rounded screen showing “C.R.T. STORE” on a 32x32 grid of pixels.

May 31, 2022

50 Years of Text Games: The Book

A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction.

May 23, 2022

Mockup image of the 50 Years of Text Games book.

May 23, 2022

Patchwork Girl (1995)

The groundbreaking hypertext that blurred the boundaries between page and screen, and creator and creation.

Jun 24, 2021

A screenshot of Patchwork girl showing multiple overlapping windows, some with text and some with a diagram of linked nodes.

Jun 24, 2021

The Playground (1994)

Atari, Façade, an experimental play and a boldly ambitious vision: how the Oz project hoped to invent the future of interactive stories.

Jun 17, 2021

A rainbow.

Jun 17, 2021

Curses (1993)

It would have been a safe bet in 1993 to say the text adventure was dead. That year saw the last release of a traditional parser game by a…

Jun 10, 2021

The cover art for Curses, featuring an old woodcut illustration of a group of standing stones and a portion of a subway map.

Jun 10, 2021

Silverwolf (1992)

It was an odd advert for a computer magazine. Next to a sketch of a provocatively posed, long-legged young woman in stockings — okay, maybe…

Jun 3, 2021

Silverwolf (1992)

Jun 3, 2021

Aaron A. Reed

Aaron A. Reed

Writer and game designer interested in the future and history of interactive narrative. https://aaronareed.net/ https://igg.me/at/subcutanean

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