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    • Textual Demoscene 

      Marecki, Piotr (2015-02-27)
      The demoscene is a mainly European subculture of computer programmers, whose programs generate computer art in real time. The aim of this report is to attempt a description of the textual dimension of the demoscene. The ...

    • The Trivial Program "yes" 

      Montfort, Nick (2012-01-01)
      A trivial program, one that simply prints “y” or a string that is given as an argument repeatedly, is explicated and examined at the levels of function and code. Although the program by itself is neither interesting ...

    • Videogame Editions for Play and Study 

      Fernández-Vara, Clara; Montfort, Nick (2014-06-05)
      We discuss four types of access to videogames that are analogous to the use of different sorts of editions in literary scholarship: (1) the use of hardware to play games on platforms compatible with the original ones, (2) ...

    • XS, S, M, L: Creative Text Generators of Different Scales 

      Montfort, Nick (2013-05-14)
      Creative text generation projects of different sizes (in terms of lines of code and length of development time) are described. “Extra-small,” “small,” “medium,” and “large” projects are discussed as participating in the ...