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At the dawn of the era of home computing, an unusual type of game was the most popular to play. With just a screen of text and a prompt, you would be asked the simple question: What do you want to do next? As you typed in commands and sentences, the games would tell you a story a story fraught with danger, excitement, puzzles and hours of exploration. Victory would seem just around the next corner or through the next barrier. Players could spend hours, weeks or months immersed in these games, testing their thinking skills to the limit and sharing their victories and defeats. They were called text adventures, adventure games, and interactive ficiton. They dominated the sales charts and introduced millions to the power and flexibility of home computers. No other type of computer game could come close. And then they were gone forever. Or maybe they never actually left. Director Jason Scott interviewed dozens of creators, players, and scholard about the experience and effect of text adventures and interactive fiction. The result is Get Lamp, a documentary with multiple paths that takes you from a cave deep in Kentucky to the arrival of what some think is a brand new form of literature. What do you want to do next?

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I just finished watching Get Lamp. It took me two tries to see the whole thing. They way it is put together can be a bit laborious to watch. I came from the era of ZORK and the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy so this was somewhat interesting. Mainly I wanted to see if they mentioned anything about play by post format but there wasn't any mention of it. It did give me a few things to think about in incorporating interactive fiction with what we do here.