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+title: "Interactive Fiction in 2023 and Get Lamp"
+category: "blog"
+abstract: people still make text adventures, and they are great!
+date: 2023-02-21T09:21:46+01:00
+year: 2023
+draft: false
+tags:
+- interactive-fiction
+- retro-gaming
+- get-lamp
+- jason-scott
+- counterfeit-monkey
+- emily-short
+---
+> What the greatest of literature and greatest of art does is resonate back with yourself. And you know, a side-scrolling shooter where you're just endlessly blowing up identical spacecraft is not going to do that. But text adventures give us the possibility that a story could have meaningful consequences both internally and for the reader, the player, in a way that had never been seen before.
+> (Get Lamp)
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+Gaming has matured, and the above quote may no longer apply. We now see shooters with amazing storylines. But we are also plagued with multiplayer, where T-Bagging is more important than telling a story, so there's also a Doom to your Sam & Max.
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+Interactive fiction is not so prevalent today (to the surprise of none), but it is still going strong. You can find hundreds of titles on [IFDB](https://ifdb.org/).
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+I can recommend [Counterfeit Monkey](https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl), the highest-rated game there.
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+> Text is lost because people just expect computer games to have graphics, and if you want to play a game that doesn't have graphics, then you have to give them a very good reason not to.
+>  (Get Lamp)
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+And if you want to get the proper mindset and learn what it was like, there is the amazing "Get Lamp" documentary
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+{{<youtube "LRhbcDzbGSU" "GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary">}}
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