Get Lamp
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| Directed by | Jason Scott |
| Produced by | Jason Scott |
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Get Lamp 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 July 2010.[1]
Description
The documentary and its hours of episodes and bonus footage contain material from roughly 80 interviews of interactive fiction developers, designers, and players.[2] 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.[3]
Get Lamp is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike-Noncommercial license.[4]
Raw interview footage is hosted at the Internet Archive.[5]
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 nearly 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 Zoë Blade (who started out writing Amiga .MOD files) and Tony Longworth.[6]
Reception
Jeremy Reiner of Ars Technica called it "a gem of a film": "The documentary's peek into the culture of Infocom is one of the most fascinating stories I've seen in all of high technology."[6] Gordon Haff of CNET said it "does a great job of capturing a gaming era which is ultimately hard to separate from the history of Infocom."[7] In The Guardian, Will Freeman listed it among "Six of the Best Gaming Documentaries": "It is a low-fi doc prone to the sentimental, but takes the viewer on a journey through a world of gaming all too often forgotten now that Call of Duty and Angry Birds are household names."[8]
Gallery
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Near view of a Lamp coin
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gagne, Ken (July 26, 2010). "The Grill: Jason Scott". Computerworld.com. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Get Lamp: Interviews". getlamp.com. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smith, Graham (August 6, 2010). "Get Lamp: text adventure documentary". PC Gamer. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Get Lamp order page". Archived from the original on January 5, 2016. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
Production is licensed Creative Commons-Attribution-Sharealike-NonCommercial
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Get Lamp Interview Archives". Retrieved September 18, 2022.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Looking back at the Infocom era: a review of Get Lamp". Ars Technica. September 29, 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Haff, Gordon (August 10, 2010). "'Get Lamp' illuminates the text adventure game". Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Freeman, Will (March 10, 2014). "How augmented reality builds bridge between games and children's books". The Guardian. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
External links
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- Official website
- Get Lamp article on IFWiki.org
- Get Lamp at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
Media
- "Get Lamp trailer" on YouTube
- "Get Lamp Commentary and presentation" on YouTube at GoogleTechTalk
- The Infocom Cabinet at the Internet Archive
- Collections of Infocom documents scanned by Jason Scott in preparing the documentary
- The GET LAMP Interviews at the Internet Archive
- "The Get Lamp" DVDs Full .ISO Copy at the Internet Archive
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