REVIEW: 50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron Reed - By John Psmith

In this post John Psmith reviews Aaron Reed’s 50 Years of Text Games , using the history of interactive fiction to explore why games made of words once felt magical, why they faded, and why AI might make them newly strange, powerful, and relevant. https://open.substack.com/pub/thepsmiths/p/review-50-years-of-text-games-by?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe