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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
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