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Procedural text and tabletop roleplaying
What can digital games learn from analog tabletop storytelling games... and vice versa?
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Stephen King's The Mist
In this bookware text adventure from the 1980s, a young writer faced the thankless challenge of adapting a superstar's bleak story into a playable…
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Genre Explorations: Wordplay
The power of language to embrace contradictions and playfully conflate signs with signifiers has long been a strength of interactive fiction.
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"Further Explorations" Now Available!
The 50 Years of Text Games bonus book is now available, featuring chapters on fan favorites like Planetfall and Anchorhead, a detailed timeline of…
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50 Years of Text Games
A deep dive into text game history, from The Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon, now in book form! Click "No thanks" below to skip the subscribe box; the top story has details on how to get your own copy.
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