--- title: "Interactive Fiction in 2023 and Get Lamp" categories: - 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) 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. 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/). I can recommend [Counterfeit Monkey](https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl), the highest-rated game there. > 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) And if you want to get the proper mindset and learn what it was like, there is the amazing "Get Lamp" documentary {{}}