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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.