@hardistymark Why The Opening of GET LAMP Is So Weird: A Twitter Thread
I wasn't concerned that text adventures wouldn't be covered in the future, just that they would be covered very lightly and mostly wrong as to their nature. So I tried to put a film together that captured a number of aspects that I figured would be a little much for game history
I had just come off 5 years of a previous film, so any choices I made were definitely intentional and definitely mine. One of them was that I knew I wouldn't capture the feeling of text adventures very easily.
My choice was to have the opening movie show a bunch of people talking about how important these things were. But also have them say that it was really hard to explains the draw of them and the feeling they gave.
I then want folks to have that bewildering sense of adjusting to a world and it's weird rules and aspects, and puzzling out what is going on
And that is why that opening sequence is so strange with a car driving down the road and someone saying things that don't quite make sense, until finally we come to the realization that we are in the caves that inspired adventure.
For around 90 seconds, you begin your journey into text adventure history by being completely unmoored from narrative, direction, and meaning. After that, it comes into focus for you and it becomes more linear and direct.
It's a risk, a little odd, but that's what I was going for
