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telmah · 07-17-2010, 07:17 AM

I promised to post more academic works on adventure games, so here goes. Some of them you may be familiar with, but there are a few recent articles you may have missed. Most of the articles are on text adventures, but there is a growing number of us researching adventure games in general.

Books and Theses
Nick Montfort, Twisty Little Passages An in-depth study of Interactive Fiction / text adventures and its history.
Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines: Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media

Articles
Denis G. Jerz, Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original "Adventure" in Code and in Kentucky
The next two articles were published in the book Well Played 1.0, but they're available online (with no formatting or illustrations)
Clara Fernández-Vara, The Secret of Monkey Island: Playing Between Cultures
Mia Consalvo, Persistence meets Performance: Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney
Jonathan Lessard, Fahrenheit and the premature burial of interactive movies
(In French) Jonathan Lessard, Lovecraft, le jeu d’aventure et la peur cosmique

I'll post more if I find any more interesting articles. Enjoy!

07-17-2010, 07:17 AM	#14
telmah Games Researcher Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 9	More academic works on Adventure Games I promised to post more academic works on adventure games, so here goes. Some of them you may be familiar with, but there are a few recent articles you may have missed. Most of the articles are on text adventures, but there is a growing number of us researching adventure games in general. Books and Theses Nick Montfort, Twisty Little Passages An in-depth study of Interactive Fiction / text adventures and its history. Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines: Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media Articles Denis G. Jerz, Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original "Adventure" in Code and in Kentucky The next two articles were published in the book Well Played 1.0, but they're available online (with no formatting or illustrations) Clara Fernández-Vara, The Secret of Monkey Island: Playing Between Cultures Mia Consalvo, Persistence meets Performance: Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney Jonathan Lessard, Fahrenheit and the premature burial of interactive movies (In French) Jonathan Lessard, Lovecraft, le jeu d’aventure et la peur cosmique I'll post more if I find any more interesting articles. Enjoy!