Twisty Little Passages

3 stars • Reading this for my university dissertation. Twisty Little Passages is the first scholarly book on interactive fiction (IF). Think Zork, Colossal Cave Adventure, Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy, modern Inform works and more. For the most part, it's a comprehensive history of the genre, interspersed with some critical analysis of each game.

Montfort also spends a good deal of time comparing IF to the riddle. It's an interesting point. And never knew the riddle had such a rich history! But it did go on for so long, and felt he dragged that point on for too long. Regardless, this is a comprehensive book to IF, and valuable for any researcher looking into the area.