GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary
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Why it's on BrighterTube
Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 85% confidenceJason Scott's documentary traces text adventures from Colossal Cave and Zork through Infocom's rise and fall to today's interactive-fiction community, built from dozens of original interviews; a primary-source history of a genre.
What you'll learn
GET LAMP, Jason Scott's documentary on text adventures and interactive fiction, with the people who made Zork and Infocom's games.
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