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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Montfort, Nick. Twisty little passages. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, 2003 (OCoLC)812022656 |
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| 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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Abstract:
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 pleasurable and meaningful experience of it.
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