Книга: Nick Montfort «Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction»
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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 games developed in response, focusing on the most... Издательство: "The MIT Press" (2005) Формат: 150x230, 302 стр.
ISBN: 978-0-262-63318-5 Купить за 1510.5 руб на Озоне |
Nick Montfort
| Nick Montfort | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Nicholas Montfort |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Education, Digital Media, Interactive Fiction |
| Training | see Field |
| Works | Grand Text Auto, Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, The Electronic Literature Collection: Volume 1 |
Nick Montfort is an associate professor of digital media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. He is also a poet, computer scientist, and author of interactive fiction. Montfort has collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto, the sticker novel Implementation, and the contemporary fiction novel 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems, text generators, and interactive fiction such as Book and Volume and Ad Verbum. Most recently, he and Ian Bogost wrote Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009). Montfort also wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press, 2003) and co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection: Volume 1 (ELO, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003).[1]
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Works
Poetry
- Taroko Gorge
- Ten Mobile Texts
- The Purpling
- Ream/Rame (collaboration with Anick Bergeron, 2008)
- CC
- Digital Ream, Ream numérique, and Ream Appropriated
Prose
- The Ed Report
- Grand Text Auto Blog
- 2002: A Palindrome Story
- Implementation
- Mystery House Taken Over
- Winchester's Nightmare (1999)
- Book and Volume
- Ad Verbum (2000)
- Venenarius Verborium
- ppg256-1
- The Executor
- Fields of Dream (collaboration with Rachel Stevens, 2003)
Study of video games
His longtime study of the world's first widespread gaming system has led to "Racing the Beam," co-authored with Georgia Institute of Technology associate professor Ian Bogost. In the book, they analyze the platforms, or systems, that underlie the computing process. They also discuss the social and cultural implications of the system that dominated the video game market.[2]
In print
- Montfort, Nick (2003). Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Montfort, Nick; Noah Wardrip-Fruin (2003). The New Media Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
References
- ^ http://digitallabor.org/speakers1/nick_montfort
- ^ Edgers, Geoff (March 8, 2009). "A talk with Nick Montfort". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/03/08/a_talk_with_nick_montfort/.
External links
- American computer scientists
- American academics
- American media scholars
- Interactive fiction writers
- Electronic literature
- Living people
- MUD scholars
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Game researchers
- Digital media educators
Источник: Nick Montfort
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