{"id":1206,"date":"2010-10-25T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2010-10-25T18:24:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T00:24:37","slug":"get-lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/10\/get-lamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Lamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Digital historian Jason Scott has an eclectic portfolio. At <a href=\"http:\/\/textfiles.com\/\">Textfiles.com<\/a>, he collects files and related materials from the era of dial-up bulletin-board systems. That work led him to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christensen-Randy-Suess-Becker-Greene\/dp\/B0009NN6EA\/computerworld-20\">BBS: The Documentary<\/a>, an eight-episode miniseries about the early history of online culture. His second documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getlamp.com\/\">Get Lamp<\/a> &#8230; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/get-lamp2.jpg\" alt=\"Get Lamp\" title=\"Get Lamp\" width=\"225\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1644\" \/>examines text adventure games through interviews with developers, designers and players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Computerworld<\/p>\n<p>From an interview with Jason Scott:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Computerworld:<\/strong> Text adventures are no longer a financially viable form of entertainment. What caused them to fade into history? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Jason Scott:<\/strong> The idea of exploring a world, trying to figure out the meaning of that world, pull out answers from it and solve a quest was readily taken over by graphic adventures. These companies didn&#8217;t ask how they could improve text adventures, so they lost money and got bought out. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/350365\/The_Grill_Jason_Scott\">Computerworld<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UwZxUGmqSOo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UwZxUGmqSOo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/07\/28\/get-lamp-now-availab.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I played text adventures, back in the day &#8230; I have fond memories of Zork.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Digital historian Jason Scott has an eclectic portfolio. At Textfiles.com, he collects files and related materials from the era of dial-up bulletin-board systems. That work led him to create BBS: The Documentary, an eight-episode miniseries about the early history of online culture. His second documentary, Get Lamp &#8230; examines text adventure games through interviews with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,92,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-interviews","category-text-adventure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}