Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the
author of Twisty Little Passages- An Approach to Interactive
Fiction and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities;
the coauthor of Racing the Beam- The Atari Video Computer System
and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); - GOTO 10; and the coeditor of The
New Media Reader (all published by the MIT Press).
Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media
Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games
LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames- Journalism at Play (MIT Press,
2010).
Montfort and Bogost's analysis is both technically detailed and
historically contextualized, both informative and methodologically
instructive. They write with a rigor and grace that future
contributors to the series may be at pains to match.—Seth Perlow,
Convergence
Read it, it will do you good.—José P. Zagal, Game Studies
Racing the Beam doesn't spare the technical details, but is always
accessible and compelling. Downright thrilling at times, in fact, a
sort of The Right Stuff of video game development.—Darren Zenko,
thestar.com (Toronto Star)
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