Caltrops - Zork I: The Great Underground Empire - The IF Theory Book, a free pdf download

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by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/02/2011, 9:27am PST

Long story short, a few of us wrote articles several years ago talking about various aspects of text games. They have been collected and edited by Kevin Jackson-Mead and Rob Wheeler. It's a free download - you may enjoy it if you are looking to make or play games yourself. Here is a quote about zarf on it (link in the quote name):

zarf wrote:

The IF Theory Reader was conceived back in 2001, by Emily Short and Dennis Jerz. They collected a stack of essays from various people active in IF at the time. But the project fell victim to life-scheduling issues, and it sat on the shelf for (if you can imagine such a span of time) ten whole years.

This past fall, Kevin Jackson-Mead volunteered to take over the project, and Things Began Happening. He dusted off the old essays and began contacting the authors. And now -- to cut a great deal of editing work short -- the IF Theory Reader is available as a free PDF download. (Or, if you are attached to the smell of paper, you can buy a POD volume from lulu.)

Here is Emily Short's description.

I wrote an article on NPC Dialogue for it. Possibly, you will like the IF Theory Reader!

ICJ

The IF Theory Book, a free pdf download by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/02/2011, 9:27am PST NEW

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