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Adventure / Point-and-Click / Narrative Games

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50 Years of Text by Aaron Reed (aareed.itch.io)
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Has anyone read this? It exclusively covers text games, but goes a lot into the development of graphics in parallel, including when Infocom was a major competitor in the adventure gaming marketing.

I got an advance copy from Aaron to review and was expecting it to be a fluffy/coffee table book, but it turned out to be really good. My reaction is here.

Curious what other people's thoughts are.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm anxiously awaiting my copy. I'm glad to hear people are finding it interesting. I grew up playing a lot of text adventures, even after graphics were a thing. As a kid who had a loose grasp of programming, making my own text adventures was fairly easy and was a big hobby for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My copy should be arriving soon but I loved the articles as they were coming out on his blog.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wow I wish I would have known about this in time to order the hardcover, that looks like a beautiful book. I've grabbed the electronic version, but I really hope there will be a reprint as well.