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“This book started as an email newsletter that I subscribed to. I then backed a Kickstarter-ish project to get it published. It’s exactly what it claims to be: a comprehensive history of text adventure games – the games where you make specific decisions, usually in a branching narrative, often by…”
“This is a fun book that celebrates the packaging and advertising art of the early Atari video games of the 80s. And this is important, because – let’s face it – those games sucked . The graphics were horrible and abstract, and what you were seeing on the screen had very little relation to…the…”
“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,…”
“ It’s from a Latin word ‘ludere’ which means ‘to play.’ The word ‘ludicrous’ comes from the same root. The word was coined by psychologists in the 1940s. ”
“This is the story of a journalist’s experience with LambdaMOO , which was the original ‘chat room’ of the early 1990s. A couple definitions – A ‘MUD’ was a ‘Multi-User Dungeon,’ which was originally game-ish environment where you could move through a virtual space, described via text only. A ‘MOO’…”
“An absolutely fantastic novel. Very, very long, but it never slows down. It’s more Tom Clancy than cyberpunk. A MMOPRG does play a part in the plot, but it’s more about globe-hopping and gunfights than computers. You know how when you read about ransomware attacks from Asia, you think, ‘Man, I wish…”
“This is a weird novel. It doesn’t fit the normal pattern of fiction where there’s a central conflict. It’s just a story that spans maybe a decade-and-a-half. There’s no major plot point to center around. It’s the story of two friends who start a video game company. They make their first game, and…”
