50 Years of Text Games
A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
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How does a commercial text-only MUD survive from 1997 to 2020 and beyond? It starts with the twilight of the gods...
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Two lovers, two dancers, two pillars, two moons: the game that charged puzzles and landscapes with meaning, heralding a new turn in the evolution of in…
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A short breather.
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The groundbreaking hypertext that blurred the boundaries between page and screen, and creator and creation.
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Atari, Façade, an experimental play and a boldly ambitious vision: how the Oz project hoped to invent the future of interactive stories.
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A grad student’s side project spawns a text games renaissance, leading to thousands of new games and decades of innovation.
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In 1985, a mysterious group of women calling themselves the "Games Mistresses" released the first of a series of text adventure games. The story behind…
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