A 20 sq cm section of #steampunk #blender3d goodness. #blender3dart

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1993: Curses (Aaron A. Reed’s “50 Years of Text Games”)

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Economics in Early Computer Games

(First published 27 May 2020, when I found it in my “drafts” folder.) In an article on consumerism in role-playing computer games, Garrelts explores a history that leads back to Adventure and Zork: “At this stage, while there were objects that could be manipulated that had use-value, there were no developed economies; in fact, there…