Twisty Little Passages

An Approach to Interactive Fiction

Hardcover, 286 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2003 by The MIT Press.

ISBN:
978-0-262-13436-1
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OCLC Number:
52214874

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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 literary perspectives. Nick Montfort, an interactive fiction author himself, offers both aficionados and first-time users a way to approach interactive fiction that will lead to a more pleasurable and meaningful experience of it.

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 …

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Subjects

  • Nonfiction
  • Computer Games
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Role-Playing Games
  • Narrative Theory