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Alex Warren's Blog

I have been developing the Quest text adventure game system since 1998, and I recently released version 5.0 as a complete rewrite - and it is now free and open source.

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Text Adventures Are New. Really!
Posted by Alex Warren on Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:31:00 EST in Smartphone/Tablet, Design
I explain why text adventure games are still, in fact, a new art form - and why the future for them is so exciting.
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Redesigning text adventures for iPhone and Android
Posted by Alex Warren on Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:05:00 EST in Design, Smartphone/Tablet
A new type of text adventure is now available on the App Store and Android Market. In this post I talk about how "The Things That Go Bump In The Night" was developed, with a new user interface specifically designed for smartphones.
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Educating the next generation of software developers
Posted by Alex Warren on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:16:00 EDT in Programming, Indie
We are going to need vastly more programmers over the coming decades. Where are they going to come from? How can we get children started programming at an early age? I have some ideas.
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Reinventing text adventure games for the modern web
Posted by Alex Warren on Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:54:00 EDT in Programming, Social/Online
The time is right for this forgotten genre of game to be rediscovered
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Comment In: 10 billions apps promo : What happenend to the "Installation Graphs" (and my downloads) on android market? [Blog - 12/09/2011 - 12:00]
They're displaying for me. Maybe ... They're displaying for me. Maybe the disappeared temporarily for you because of this: https://support.google.com/androidmarket/developer/support/bin/answer.py hl en answer 2383764

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