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Final Overstock Sale!
Over the two years since its release, various items from the 50 Years of Text Games crowdfunding campaign have made their way back to me. Some were overstock from my initial orders, or shipped back from my fulfillment partner’s warehouse; s...
Procedural text and tabletop roleplaying
In my last update I mentioned my (currently running) crowdfunding campaign for Downcrawl, a tabletop roleplaying game. TTRPGs may not at first glance have much to do with the history of interactive text games, but I wanted to talk a bit abo...
Fall Updates
Hi, text adventure fans! Hope you don't mind me gently poking you every once in a while with news and updates. A couple items this fall that might of interest:
- The 30th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition is live until October 15th,...
Stephen King's The Mist
This article on a fascinating 1980s text adventure adaptation was originally commissioned by David M. Rheingold, and appears in a modified and expanded form in Further Explorations, the companion book to 50 Years of Text Games. Here’s the o...
Genre Explorations: Wordplay
Greetings! Hope you enjoy this excerpt from Further Explorations, the recently-released companion volume to 50 Years of Text Games. Enjoy!
Among Infocom’s classic text games, one stands out as distinctly unique. Rather than searching for t...
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