50 Years of Text Games
Substacknewsletter · by Aaron A. Reed · English
A deep dive into text game history, from The Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon, now in book form! Click "No thanks" below to skip the subscribe box; the top story has details on how to get your own copy.
- Audience
- 5K subscribers
- Shown publicly on Substack
- Observed frequency
- No recent posts
- Observed from indexed posts
- Last post
- May 22, 2025
- May 22, 2025
- Likely audience
- Tabletop RPG designers
- Inferred from post content
50 Years of Text Games is a Substack newsletter by Aaron A. Reed covering Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Procedural Generation and Interactive Fiction. Its most recent indexed post is from May 22, 2025. Shown publicly on Substack: 5K subscribers.
Topics
- Tabletop Roleplaying Games
- Procedural Generation
- Interactive Fiction
- Game Design
- Narrative Design
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