Description: ZZT by Anthropy Anna (Boss Fight Books) In 1991, long before Epic Games was putting out blockbusters like Unreal, Infinity Blade, and Gears of War, Tim Sweeney released a strange little MS-DOS shareware game called ZZT. The simplicity of its text graphics masked the complexity of its World Editor: players could use ZZT to design their own games. This feature was a revelation to thousands of gamers, including Anna Anthropy, author of Rise of the Videogame Zinesters. ZZT is an exploration of a submerged continent, a personal history of the shareware movement, ascii art, messy teen identity struggle, cybersex, transition, outsider art, the thousand deaths of Barney the Dinosaur, and what happens when a ten-year-old gets her hands on a programming language she can understand. It's been said that the first Velvet Underground album sold only a few thousand copies, but that everyone who heard it formed a band. Well not everyone has played ZZT, but everyone who played it became a game designer. Paperback in good condition. Free US shipping with USPS media mail. All items are shipped in a bubble lined envelope.
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Series: Boss Fight Books
Subject Area: Video & Computer Games
Book Title: ZZT (Boss Fight Books)
Subject: Video & Computer Games
Item Length: 6.8in
Item Height: 0.4in
Item Width: 5in
Author: Anna Anthropy
Publication Name: Zzt
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Boss Fight LLC
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 4.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 68 Pages
