Further Explorations: 50 Years of Text Games

This is an “overflow” book from 50 Years of Text Games. That book looked at specific games, where this book covers some outlying genres. You get the feeling that the author just had a bunch more material that he didn’t know what to do with, so he published another book.

This one is much smaller, and he covers some odd and interesting genres, like games that use an invented language you have to decipher, games that take place in a single “room,” games that only give you one opportunity to make a command, etc.

It was fun. Much faster read that the original book, and I liked the emphasis on styles and genres rather than specific games.

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