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---
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

{{<youtube "LRhbcDzbGSU" "GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary">}}