Twisty Little Passages
An Approach to Interactive Fiction
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- Paperback
302 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2005
Summary
A critical approach to interactive fiction, as literature and game.Interactive fiction-the best-known form of which is the text game or text adventure-has not received as much critical attention as have such other forms of electronic literature as hypertext fiction and the conversational programs known as chatterbots. Twisty Little Passages (the title refers to a maze in Adventure, the first interactive fiction) is the first book-length consideration of this form, examining it from gaming and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262633185 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262633183 |
| Author: | Nick Montfort |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 302 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2005 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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About The Author
Nick Montfort
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the author of Twisty Little Passages- An Approach to Interactive Fiction and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities; the coauthor of Racing the Beam- The Atari Video Computer System and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); - GOTO 10; and the coeditor of The New Media Reader (all published by the MIT Press).
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