Jason Scott's Weblog
As mentioned in a rather recent weblog entry, a collector has gotten their hands on both original packaging and the manuscript for a game by the late Thomas Disch called “Amnesia“. This game, released in 1985, was a text adventure featuring a player waking up with no memory of who they are and the resulting […]
Somewhere earlier this year I noticed I wasn’t watching much television. Between editing my documentary and writing weblog entries and job and archiving and all the rest, the amount of time I’d want to spend watching television was reduced greatly, and mostly supplanted with video games. A quick desktop game or a consistent thrashing about […]
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:07:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strawser To: jason@textfiles.com Subject: Website Request Hi Jason, My name is Daniel Strawser from Reputation Defender Inc. I am writing you representing my client, Christoph Vaessen. He has asked us to contact you and politely inquire whether it were possible to remove his name from […]
Within the context of text adventure history, this is relatively big news. From: Stephane Racle Subject: Amnesia Not sure if anyone here is a fan of “Amnesia”, the text adventure that was written by Thomas M. Disch and released by Electronic Arts in the mid-1980s, but I recently acquired a number of interesting items related […]
Here’s a scenario I find myself halfway through on a weekly basis. Someone writes something stupid in their weblog. Specifically, someone writes something stupid that I think I have a more informed opinion on, or which causes me to want to point out the person has said something stupid, or which, in their usual hailstorm […]
The video I shot for MC Frontalot, “Wallflowers”, became available. Here’s the official YouTube version ( I suggest clicking this link to see it): And here’s a Hi-Def Vimeo Version: MC Frontalot: “Wallflowers” from Jason Scott on Vimeo I already said a bit about the production of this video. Frontalot is running a contest to […]
Since the time I talked about it, I have ascended in level from Captain to Major in Halo 3. This didn’t happen immediately after the weblog entry, but a few weeks later. It came as the result of a particularly involved process of just jamming over and over into games until I won. In one […]
OK, so I’ve talked about him before, but Pete Chvany, who was one of my great mentors in my formally-educated years, has had an enormous about of influence on me and a lot of how I look at life and recording it. I was so enamored of him as a teacher that I actually took […]
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:57:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Nick Montfort Subject: [Purple-Blurb] Steve Meretzky on Monday (in Stata, not our usual location) STEVE MERETZKY Monday (Oct 6) at 6pm 32-141 Award-studded “game god”* Steve Meretzky will speak on Monday (Oct 6) at 6pm in the Stata Center, 32-141. Steve Meretzky’s first job in computer […]
It took me years to figure this out, so enjoy the hard-won information. There’s been no small amount of study in the area of how people perceive the world. More specifically, there’s been rather involved research in how people ingest information or how they “learn”. A standardized “here’s a room with a person in front […]