{"product_id":"9781940535029","title":"ZZT","description":"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.\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boss Fight Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050824843504,"sku":"9781940535029","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940535029_p0.jpg?v=1769897350","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940535029","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}