50 Years of Text Games

Final Overstock Sale!

May 22 • 

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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 • 

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October 2024

Fall Updates

Oct 1, 2024 • 

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July 2024

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…

Jul 16, 2024 • 

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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 • 

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April 2024

"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…

Apr 4, 2024 • 

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March 2024

Posters and Merch Now Available!

Mar 1, 2024 • 

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October 2023

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

Oct 21, 2023 • 

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July 2023

The print edition sold out!

Jul 28, 2023 • 

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Inventory Fire Sale Soon, Print-on-Demand News

Jul 24, 2023 • 

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The Antagonists

Type-in books once promised full computer games encoded in the pages of a printed paperback. But the delicate balancing act of a game easy enough to…

Jul 19, 2023 • 

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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 • 

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