50 Years of Text Games

Final Overstock Sale!

May 22, 2025 • Aaron A. Reed

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November 2024

Procedural text and tabletop roleplaying

What can digital games learn from analog tabletop storytelling games... and vice versa?

Nov 13, 2024 • Aaron A. Reed

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October 2024

Fall Updates

Oct 1, 2024 • Aaron A. Reed

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July 2024

Stephen King's The Mist

The perils of interactive adaptation.

Jul 16, 2024 • Aaron A. Reed

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May 2024

Genre Explorations: Wordplay

The power of language to embrace contradictions and playfully conflate signs with signifiers has long been a strength of interactive fiction.

May 28, 2024 • Aaron A. Reed

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April 2024

"Further Explorations" Now Available!

aka the 50 Years of Text Games bonus book

Apr 4, 2024 • Aaron A. Reed

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March 2024

Posters and Merch Now Available!

Mar 1, 2024 • Aaron A. Reed

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October 2023

Print-on-Demand Edition of "50 Years of Text Games" Now Available!

Oct 21, 2023 • Aaron A. Reed

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July 2023

The print edition sold out!

Jul 28, 2023 • Aaron A. Reed

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Inventory Fire Sale Soon, Print-on-Demand News

Jul 24, 2023 • Aaron A. Reed

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The Antagonists

The rise and fall of type-in text games

Jul 19, 2023 • Aaron A. Reed

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May 2023

Christopher Strachey and the Dawn of Interactive Text

Twenty-five years before "Adventure," the godfather of interactive text was experimenting with computer text that could tease, advise, and be playful.

May 16, 2023 • Aaron A. Reed

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