(Ryan has also bundled copies of his debut short story collection Motorcyclus as a book-length extra for buyers!) The basic purchase tier ($3 or above) for Video Game Bundle #3, again curated by game industry veteran Simon Carless, includes academic and designer Ian Bogost's witty tome How To Do Things With Videogames, alongside Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel's massive, canonical Atari Inc.: Business Is Fun, a romp through the history of the seminal video game company up to 1984.Īlso featured in the bundle are the first 11 (!) issues of Ray Barnholt's acclaimed SCROLL magazine, described as 'video game history uncorked', and featuring deep dives into developers from Jaleco through Artdink to Warp and beyond.Įlsewhere featured are Ghosts In The Machine, a collection of 13 short stories 'by a diverse group of videogame critics, journalists and artists about the bugs, glitches and design quirks of videogames and what they can tell us about ourselves', plus Sam Pettus' Service Games: The Rise & Fall Of Sega, dealing with the Genesis and Dreamcast maker's storied history.Īn additional treat for bundle buyers is The Gothic Tower & Assorted Interactive Fiction, which includes five interactive fiction 'text adventures' by IFComp winner Ryan Veeder, including two exclusively commissioned IF works debuting for the first time anywhere in StoryBundle. It once again features almost $100 worth of books & magazines-plus narrative apps and interactive fiction-for a fraction of that price.

The specially curated set of nine full-length game culture & history books/magazines follows up two previous multi-thousand selling digital bundles. Continuing its popular 'pay what you want' ebook bundles, StoryBundle is proud to present the Video Game Bundle 3.0.

Ghosts in the Machine by Lana Polansky