Dungeons & Dragons was once the most popular game ever and early programmers chased its magic. I run through a quick history tracing D&D to the earliest games to now.
The awesome Dr. Nick LaLone can be found at https://nicklalone.com/ and Bluesky @nicklalone.com.
Research
We’ve written a handful of papers on this:
- A Tale of Dungeons & Dragons and the Origins of the Game Platform
- Paper to Pixels: A Chronicle of Map Interfaces in Games
- A Quest?!: The Secret Life of Gameworld Punctuation
Credits
- Screenshots of roguelikes taken by myself and Nick.
- Original D&D image from Nick.
- Spacewar! image cc-by-2.0, Flickr user Joi.
- pedit5 images from OldGames.sk.
- Photographs of Colossal Cave Adventure and Zork taken by me from the Game Worlds @ ACMI exhibit.
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