Archive - 50 Years of Text Games

Procedural text and tabletop roleplaying

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

Nov 13 •

October 2024

Oct 1 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

March 2024

Posters and Merch Now Available!

Mar 1 •

October 2023

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

Oct 21, 2023 •

July 2023

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 •

April 2023

The interactive fiction game that made its players learn a whole new language to play.

Apr 16, 2023 •

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