We first mentioned Jason Scott’s ‘Get Lamp’ text adventure documentary way back in December 2005, and work on it appears to be proceeding rather well, as a new post on his ASCII blog explains.
He notes: “Obviously, when I make a documentary, I need a lot of help. Among the help is a series of tools, ranging from the mechanical (HVX-200, piles of energy drink cans), to scripts and software. And among those scripts are little efforts that generate web pages to help me keep track of potential interviewees and completed interviews. The idea is, after the whole thing’s wrapped up, I put the resultant pages up and people are very happy with the ability to see all the names and backstories and history of the interviews.”
Also, this is a good, if curmudgeonly point: “I hate it when people put up documentary websites that give you crappy flash intros […]
Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (simonc) and software by Elliott Back
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