Twisty Little Passages

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Does anyone own this book? (Twisty Little Passages.) Apparently I am quoted in it from something I said in 1999.

Anyone got the line?

[Roody_Yogurt]

I own it but haven't been able to read much of it yet.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Is it still in print? I make it a point to own all books that quote me.

(Number of books that have quoted me that I know of: ONE. Including TLP.)

[Roody_Yogurt]

Yeah, it just came out last December or something, and I guess it's reviewed in the latest Onion's AV club.

Guess I should force myself to get through the thing.

[Vitriola]

"Twisty Little Passages is, quite simply, one of the best books on hypermedia, period. This book not only made me reconsider the importance of interactive fiction as a genre within hypermedia, it also made me devote a hefty portion of my graduate courses to IF — and Twisty Little Passages. Hell, after reading it, I even went out and bought every Infocom title I could lay my hands on. It's that good."
—J. Yellowlees Douglas
author of The End of Books or Books Without End: Reading Interactive Narratives and I Have Said Nothing

I hated people like this in college. Usually the time to be this much of a pretentious dick is at 20. This guy missed it by a frew years, I think.

(This is someone who reviewed the book, not the author himself.)

...

I just realized what it's going to be like around here when Worm turns 20.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

You can get like 30 Infocom titles by buying that one "Masterpieces" disc, so it's not quite as impressive as the dude there wants it to sound.

Also, I think I found the quote. If you put in "Zork" "Mario" and "King's Quest" into Google and then maybe my name or something it shows up.

[Lex]

I am nearly 20.

:(

[Debaser]

Is "hypermedia" Mr. Yellowlees Douglas' term? I'm all for pedantry, but what does that word even mean that isn't covered by another, more common term?

Still, who wouldn't want to get their masters in "Leather Goddess of Phobos"?

[Twisty L. Passages]

Also, I think I found the quote. If you put in "Zork" "Mario" and "King's Quest" into Google and then maybe my name or something it shows up.

Not so fast, Mr. Jonsey.

On page 186 there is another referece, and I quote myself, "...evil player character made <i>The Knight Orc</i>, as one IF author wrote, 'one of the first games to give voice to a villain' (Sherwin 1999)..."

Buy me, ya cheap bastahd!

[Keza]

I am nearly 20.

:(

No you're not. Quiet.

eeeeeeep

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

On page 186 there is another referece, and I quote myself, "...evil player character made <i>The Knight Orc</i>, as one IF author wrote, 'one of the first games to give voice to a villain' (Sherwin 1999)..."

Buy me, ya cheap bastahd!

Well, that cinches it, then.

And Grindleguts really was a bad, bad guy. I'm glad that they were able to get one of my many quotes about the game into the book. They can call it the "Compleat Twisty Little Passages" now... of that I'm certain!