Archive - 50 Years of Text Games

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May 23

The quest for the earliest transcript of a computer game uncovers a surprisingly complex computer strategy game from the 1950s.

May 10

May 5

Apr 26

One of the first complex computer games, a military wargame called HUTSPIEL (1955), was created by a historian, Dr. Dorothy K. Clark.

Jan 26

Some final thoughts on this epic expedition.

Jan 1

A generator for perfumes and memories that built an incredible meaning-making machine in procedural text.

Dec 30, 2021

Text games return to their roots, but this time entwined with the infinite grafts of a strange, brand new technology…

Dec 23, 2021

An opera singer's interactive novel, and a text game company focused on readers, not gamers: Choice of Games.

Dec 16, 2021

The dawn of incremental games: how some of the most virally addictive games of the 2010s were nothing but text and numbers going up.

Dec 9, 2021

Pixelberry's Choices and the insanely popular, wildly overlooked genre of interactive fiction romance on mobile.

Dec 2, 2021

The "texting adventure" that got millions of people to swap urgent messages with a fictional astronaut.

Nov 25, 2021

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