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Twisty little passages : an approach to interactive fiction

Author: Nick Montfort
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
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"Twisty Little Passages looks at interactive fiction beginning with its most important literary ancestor, the riddle. Montfort then discusses Adventure and its precursors (including the I Ching and Dungeons and Dragons), and follows this with an examination of mainframe text games developed in response, focusing on the most influential work of that era, Zork. He then considers the introduction of commercial  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Montfort, Nick.
Twisty little passages.
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, 2003
(OCoLC)812022656
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Nick Montfort
ISBN: 0262134365 9780262134361 9780262633185 0262633183
OCLC Number: 52214874
Description: xv, 286 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. The pleasure of the text adventure --
2. Riddles --
3. Adventure and its ancestors --
4. Zork and other mainframe works --
5. Infocom and commercial beginnings --
6. Different visions worldwide --
7. The independents --
8. Interactive fiction in our culture.
Responsibility: Nick Montfort.
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This book examines interactive fiction from a gaming and literary perspective. The author offers both aficionados and first-time users a way to approach interactive fiction that should lead to a more  Read more...

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"Anyone interested in the use of technology for artistic and cultural purposes should crack open Twisty Little Passages." - Book Bytes"

 
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schema:reviewBody""Twisty Little Passages looks at interactive fiction beginning with its most important literary ancestor, the riddle. Montfort then discusses Adventure and its precursors (including the I Ching and Dungeons and Dragons), and follows this with an examination of mainframe text games developed in response, focusing on the most influential work of that era, Zork. He then considers the introduction of commercial interactive fiction for home computers, particularly that produced by Infocom. Commercial works inspired an independent reaction, and Montfort describes the emergence of independent creators and the development of an online interactive fiction community in the 1990s. Finally, he considers the influence of interactive fiction on other literary and gaming forms. With Twisty Little Passages Nick Montfort places interactive fiction in its computational and literary contexts, opening up this still-developing form to new consideration."--BOOK JACKET."
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