Name: Mary Ann Buckles

Born: Unknown

  • Wrote the first academic paper on video game aesthetics in 1985 at the University of California San Diego.
  • Early academic scholar of interactive fiction.

Significant publications

  • Interactive Fiction as Literature (1987).
  • Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame ‘Adventure’ (1985).

Honors and awards

  • Featured in the documentary film GET LAMP (2010).