{"id":176,"date":"2006-08-20T01:02:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T05:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=176"},"modified":"2006-08-21T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T19:56:36","slug":"get-lamp-preserves-memory-of-text-adventure-game-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/08\/20\/get-lamp-preserves-memory-of-text-adventure-game-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Get Lamp&#8221; preserves memory of text adventure game genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/video\/0,71573-0.html?tw=wn_index_18\">Wired News: Text Games Get Film Treatment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason Scott, a UNIX sysadmin from Boston is shooting a documentary about the text-based adventure game genre of the late 70&#8217;s and early 80&#8217;s.  There weren&#8217;t any flashy graphics, just text on a screen.  Your own imagination played a large role in your progress and interpretation of the game.  That&#8217;s something that seems alien in this age of heavily scripted photorealistically rendered games.  I remember enjoying some of those games so much that I tried my hand at writing a few.  (probably to the detrement of my studies..)  I&#8217;m glad someone is documenting these things since all I have are my memories.  I might just have to pull the old Apple II out and reminisce a bit. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired News: Text Games Get Film Treatment Jason Scott, a UNIX sysadmin from Boston is shooting a documentary about the text-based adventure game genre of the late 70&#8217;s and early 80&#8217;s. There weren&#8217;t any flashy graphics, just text on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/08\/20\/get-lamp-preserves-memory-of-text-adventure-game-genre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}