Get Lamp
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GET LAMP is a two-disc documentary
about interactive fiction
(also known as 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 July 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.
GET LAMP is licensed under the Creative Commons-Attribution-Sharealike-Noncommercial license
.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about interactive fiction
Interactive fiction
Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games. In common usage, the term refers to text...
(also known as text adventures) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott
Jason Scott Sadofsky
Jason Scott Sadofsky , more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist and historian of technology. He is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which...
of textfiles.com
Textfiles.com
textfiles.com is a web site run by Jason Scott dedicated to preserving the digital documents that contain the history of the BBS world and various subcultures. The site categorises and stores thousands of ASCII files. It focuses on text files from the 1980s, but also contains some older files and...
. Scott conducted the interviews between February 2006 and February 2008, and the documentary was released in July 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
Infocom
Infocom was a software company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced one notable business application, a relational database called Cornerstone....
, the best-known commercial publisher of interactive fiction.
GET LAMP is licensed under the Creative Commons-Attribution-Sharealike-Noncommercial license
Creative Commons licenses
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