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