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Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame "Adventure"

by: Mary Ann Buckles

Publication date: 1985

Topics: interactive fiction, ADVENT, adventure, text adventure, text adventure game, game, gaming, Crowther, Woods, Crowther and Woods, Will Crowther, Don Woods, Infocom, Buckles, Mary Ann Buckles, thesis, PhD, videogame, Colossal Cave

Collection: folkscanomy_academic; folkscanomy; additional_collections

Language: English

Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame Adventure

A doctoral thesis submitted to the University of California, San Diego, by Mary Ann Buckles in 1985.

The subject of the thesis is interactive fiction, with a focus on the game Adventure (a.k.a. ADVENT) by Crowther and Woods.

"Mary Ann Buckles is widely credited as the first academic to research and speculate about the emotional and cultural impact of videogames." (Wikipedia)