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50 Years of Text Games
A deep dive into one text game per year each week of 2021, from The Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon.
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50 Years of Text Games
A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
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Pre-launch page for the book is a go!
Aaron A. Reed
May 23
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Business Wargames: Early Complex Text Games
The quest for the earliest transcript of a computer game uncovers a surprisingly complex computer strategy game from the 1950s.
Aaron A. Reed
May 10
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Survey now or forever hold your peace...
Aaron A. Reed
May 5
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The "50 Years" Book is coming...
Aaron A. Reed
Apr 26
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HUTSPIEL and Dr. Dorothy K. Clark
One of the first complex computer games, a military wargame called HUTSPIEL (1955), was created by a historian, Dr. Dorothy K. Clark.
Aaron A. Reed
Jan 26
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The End of a Journey
Some final thoughts on this epic expedition.
Aaron A. Reed
Jan 1
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2020: Scents & Semiosis
A generator for perfumes and memories that built an incredible meaning-making machine in procedural text.
Aaron A. Reed
Dec 30, 2021
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