Get Lamp: before the FPS, there was the 2nd person thinker

[Darren Dirt]

http://getlamp.com/ (a documentary about adventures in text*) (!)

found via http://radoff.com/blog/2010/09/14/lamp-2/



(the doc is made by Jason Scott, the guy behind textfiles.com -- and another documentary, about the old days of BBSes.)


for Infocomaniacs, WOW what an amazing panel: http://vimeo.com/10665720




*some of the very first computerized "social games" (unlike what some call "sociopathic games"!), may the younger generations appreciate what they have now, and what came before...


lol

[Mr. Analog]

I'm pretty sure there's been a fairly large resurgence in the popularity of text based games in the last couple of years, I saw a few people playing Zork (it "looked" like Zork to me) at Fraga.

Nostalgia never dies

[Darren Dirt]

anyone who likes games and/or storytelling just has to watch ANY of the videos on the Jason Scott channel @ Vimeo, they would be drawn into the world of Interactive Fiction just by hearing the guy's passion and humor bubbling forth.

His Defcon17 talk about getting sued for 2 billion dollars = easily worth wasting your lunch hour imo.