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GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary |
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by Jason Scott Sadofsky |
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Get Lamp[1] is a documentary about interactive fiction (a |
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genre that includes text adventures) filmed by computer |
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historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com. Scott conducted |
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the interviews between February 2006 and February 2008, |
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and the documentary was released in May 2010. |
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The documentary and its hours of episodes and bonus |
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footage contain material from roughly 80 interviews of |
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interactive fiction developers, designers, and players. |
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Included in the bonus footage is a nearly 50-minute |
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documentary about Infocom, the best-known commercial |
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publisher of interactive fiction. The DVD release |
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included photographs, essays, and a collectible coin. |
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Get Lamp is licensed under the Creative Commons |
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Attribution-Sharealike-Noncommercial license. |
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Raw interview footage is hosted at the Internet Archive. |
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The name "Get Lamp" comes from the first inventory pickup |
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in arguably the first-ever adventure game, Will |
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Crowther's Colossal Cave Adventure (1975), more commonly |
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known as simply Adventure. The lamp appears as a kind of |
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Easter Egg in every interview. The film starts off with a |
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tour of part of the real-life Mammoth Cave system in |
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Kentucky that Adventure was based on. The soundtrack |
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includes Creative Commons-licensed work from Zo Blade and |
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Tony Longworth. |
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1. http://www.getlamp.com (link) |
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2. getlamp-interviews |
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Date Published: 2021-01-06 00:12:52 |
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Identifier: GET_LAMP_The_Text_Adventure_Documentary |
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Item Size: 2147483647 |
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Language: eng |
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Media Type: data |
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# Topics |
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Text Adventures;Interactive Fiction;D... |
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# Collections |
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getlamp-interviews |
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# Uploaded by |
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@jason_scott |
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