Interactive Fiction Bibliography (04/97)
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Printed Books
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Dacosta, Frank. _Writing Basic Adventure Programs for the TRS-80_. Tab
Books: Blue Ridge Summit, PA. 1982.
Hartnell, Tim. _Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer_. Ballantine
Books: New York. 1984.
Krutch, John. _Experiments in Artificial Intelligence for Microcomputers_.
Howard Sams & Co.: Indianapolis, IN. 1986.
McGath, Gary. _Compute's Guide to Adventure Games_. COMPUTE! Publications,
Inc. 1984.
Meehan, James. _The Metanovel: Writing Stories by Computer_. Garland
Publishing: New York. 1980.
Menick, Jim. _Basic Adventure and Strategy Game Design for the Apple_.
Facts On File Publications: New York. 1984.
Mueller, Erik T. _Daydreaming in Humans and Machines: A Computer Model of
Stream of Thought_. Ablex: Norwood, NJ. 1990.
Plamondon, Robert. _Through Dungeons Deep: A Fantasy Gamer's Handbook_.
Reston Publishing Company, Inc.: Reston, VA. 1982.
Vile, Richard C., Jr. _Programming Your Own Adventure Games In Pascal_.
Tab Books: Blue Ridge Summit, PA. 1984.
Theses
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Buckles, Mary Ann. "Interactive Fiction: the Computer Storygame
'Adventure'". Ph.D. Thesis, University of California at San Diego.
1985.
Laurel, Brenda. "Towards the Design of a Computer-based Interactive
Fantasy System". Ph.D. Thesis, Ohio State University. 1986.
Sloane, Sarah. "Interactive Fiction, Virtual Realities, and the
Reading-Writing Relationship". Ph.D. Thesis, Ohio State University.
1991.
Internet Text
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Nelson, Graham. Inform manual, appendix A. Location:
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ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform/manual.text>
Author's Email:
[email protected]
SPAG (Society for the Preservation of Adventure Games), Kevin Wilson,
ed. Location: <
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/magazines/>
Oz Project. An ongoing IF project at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Location: <
ftp://reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu>. Also available via Web:
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/oz.html>
Wilson, Kevin. Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship.
Location: <
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/info/authorship-guide>
Author's Email:
[email protected]
XYZZYnews, Eileen Mullin, ed. Location:
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ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/magazines/>
Compiled by Stephen Granade. Any additions/corrections should be emailed to
[email protected]. Comments are welcome.