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Related: there's a few versions of "get lamp" documentary online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU) or yo

Related: there's a few versions of "get lamp" documentary online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU) or you can get the movie directly from getlamp.com. These histories (the maher link above, the getlamp doc, etc) bring back a lot of great memories. EDIT: the youtube link above looks like it's actually the getlamp movie being shown at a google event, with an audience (audience sounds in there now and then).

throwaway7645 10y ago
A really good documentary. Infocom's game division sounds like it was a magical place to work. The Google before Google.
- ghaff 10y ago
  There are two "official" versions of the documentary. One is a general documentary on interactive text adventures and then there's one that's cut to be more specifically about Infocom. (The latter was particularly interesting to me because I knew a lot of the people involved then and now and actually did some game testing at one point.)
  - mgkimsal 10y ago
    Would love to read some of your testing experiences re: infocom. Have you posted on this before?
    - ghaff 10y ago
      Not a lot to relate. I wasn't an official tester. I just knew a number of the guys--including one of their main designers--from undergrad. So he would sometimes send me a pre-release disk and I'd make notes about things I found confusing or where I got stuck. (And would call him for hints now and then.) I think I was officially credited as a beta tester for Legend later on but that was just the same sort of thing.
      - mgkimsal 10y ago
        Ahh... sounds cool to have been part of it, even in a small way (early copies and all that)!
  - throwaway7645 10y ago
    I didn't know that, but will look.
BEEdwards 10y ago
Why isn't there a digital version of this doc? WTF am I going to do with DVDs? http://www.getlamp.com/order/ http://www.getlamp.com/order/

throwaway7645 10y ago

A really good documentary. Infocom's game division sounds like it was a magical place to work. The Google before Google.

ghaff 10y ago
There are two "official" versions of the documentary. One is a general documentary on interactive text adventures and then there's one that's cut to be more specifically about Infocom. (The latter was particularly interesting to me because I knew a lot of the people involved then and now and actually did some game testing at one point.)
- mgkimsal 10y ago
  Would love to read some of your testing experiences re: infocom. Have you posted on this before?
  - ghaff 10y ago
    Not a lot to relate. I wasn't an official tester. I just knew a number of the guys--including one of their main designers--from undergrad. So he would sometimes send me a pre-release disk and I'd make notes about things I found confusing or where I got stuck. (And would call him for hints now and then.) I think I was officially credited as a beta tester for Legend later on but that was just the same sort of thing.
    - mgkimsal 10y ago
      Ahh... sounds cool to have been part of it, even in a small way (early copies and all that)!
- throwaway7645 10y ago
  I didn't know that, but will look.

BEEdwards 10y ago

Why isn't there a digital version of this doc? WTF am I going to do with DVDs? http://www.getlamp.com/order/ http://www.getlamp.com/order/