Jun 12, 2022

Gil and Sen sit down with recreation designer and chronicler Aaron A.
Reed to speak about his challenge 50 Years of Textual content Video games, wherein
he coated one vital recreation for every year between 1971 and 2020.
The
challenge can be made right into a ebook.

SHOW NOTES

2m21s: The Oregon
Path

3m13s: Gil mentions a bunch of video games that Aaron wrote about:
Journey,
Hunt the
Wumpus, video games made with Inform and Twine, 80 Days, Fallen
London.

9m22s: Sen’s childhood PET laptop,
Gil’s childhood Panasonic
laptop

10m24s: The sport Journey, the
firm Infocom, and the rise
of Multi-Consumer
Dungeons (MUDs).

14m16s: You possibly can most likely add board video games like Gloomhaven
to this listing too!

17m28s: The
Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy recreation, with the notorious Babel
Fish puzzle. Right here
is the textual content of the Infocom trace information for that puzzle. Click on
“Subsequent Reply” for the subsequent step. Every step has spoilers,
clearly!

Additionally, Gil was flawed, it was “solely” 30 steps.

18m33s: Myst

20m07s: Infocom’s “feelies.” A number of fan websites have data
on them; that is
one.

20m38s: Infocom’s recreation Suspended had a

ridiculously cool cowl; a plastic injection-molded face with
cut-outs for the eyes. The eyes you see on the quilt are printed on
cardboard beneath the face. As a result of the photographs for the eyes are
recessed, they are going to appear to observe you in the event you stroll previous the sport on
the shelf. 

22m54s: Robert Lafore’s “Interactive
Fiction”

26m46s: St. Bride’s
Faculty

30m45s: The Oz
Undertaking

33m09s: The digital recreation Façade.

36m00s: Adventuron, Selection
of Video games’
ChoiceScript, Inkle

37m00s: So
Far, Photopia, Galatea, Trinity

42m01s: The harrowing dramatic movie The
Candy Hereafter, which was an inspiration for Photopia.

44m46s: The seminal ARG The Beast, created
to advertise the movie AI

49m47s:
Here is the article Gil was speaking about. Additionally, Porpentine’s
recreation With
These We Love Alive

52m35s: PixelBerry’s interactive
romances
Decisions, of which The Freshman is
a narrative within the recreation.

56m10s:
Ludology 151, the place Geoff and Gil focus on what a recreation really
is.

57m57s: Aaron’s ebook Subcutanean, which
is completely different for everybody who buys it.

58m51s: Sen is probably going considering of Cain’s
Jawbone, a puzzle launched in 1934 by Edward Mathers, underneath the
pseudonym Torquemada.

1h01m27s: Archives of
the Sky

1h03m03s: The quick IF
recreation 9:05. It is actually fast; play it in the event you can!

1h04m10s: Star
Saga One: Past the Boundary.

1h05m05s: Above
& Under, Close to
& Far, Tales
of the Arabian Nights

1h06m02s: Aaron’s 50 Years
of Textual content Video games ebook