<http://www.getlamp.com/>"Get Lamp" is currently scheduled to be
released on DVD in the second half of March 2010. Ordering now both
guarantees the earliest possible acquisition of the movie and helps
fund the initial duplication and packaging costs.
But what is "Get Lamp"?
With limited sound, simple graphics, and tiny amounts of computing
power, the first games on home computers would hardly raise an
eyebrow in the modern era of photorealism and surround sound. In a
world of Quake, Half-Life and Halo, it is expected that a successful
game must be loud, fast, and full of blazing life-like action.
But in the early 1980s, an entire industry rose over the telling of
tales, the solving of intricate puzzles and the art of writing. Like
living books, these games described fantastic worlds to their
readers, and then invited them to live within them.
They were called "computer adventure games", and they used the most
powerful graphics processor in the world: the human mind.
Rising from side projects at universities and engineering companies,
adventure games would describe a place, and then ask what to do next.
They presented puzzles, tricks and traps to be overcome. They were
filled with suspense, humor and sadness. And they offered a unique
type of joy as players discovered how to negotiate the obstacles and
think their way to victory. These players have carried their memories
of these text adventures to the modern day, and a whole new
generation of authors have taken up the torch to present a new set of
places to explore.
Get Lamp is a documentary that will tell the story of the creation of
these incredible games, in the words of the people who made them.
<http://www.getlamp.com/>Link
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