Jason Scott's Weblog
It is a week before I show some footage at Shmoocon. It is entirely arbitrary that I am showing footage at Shmoocon; this limitation is self-imposed. But one thing I’ve learned of myself over the many years is that I work better with some sort of structure, even if I’m a complete slack layabout regarding […]
It’s kind of interesting what some people consider the Right Thing and how once you have the Right Thing in your mind, you feel almost dirty or dishonest turning away from it, even if this Right Thing is 100% optional. To wit: the wonder of Peter Hirschberg’s Luna City arcade has now broken wide and […]
When I started work on GET LAMP, one of the things I did was start buying adventure game-related books by the truckload. Anytime I could find them for sale on used-book sites, I’d snag a copy. Now it’s a few years later and I have quite the collection: For easy reference, here’s the list as […]
The comments on my weblog entry yesterday got a little involved there, but rising out of it were the efforts of one zota, who is concerned I may have swallowed some facts presented with the same dollop of fudging and self-interest that I contend the filmmakers utilize. If you check the entry again and read […]
Ever since I made the fatal mistake of announcing I was working on an Arcade Documentary way before it made sense to, I’ve gotten a nice healthy bushel of mail from people. I appreciate a lot of it because people are stepping up and giving me contact addresses, ideas, and all the great stuff I […]
I really do like Hentai Games. I will now spend umpteen paragraphs qualifying that statement. When you say “Hentai Games” at this point you’re actually referring to way too huge a genre, like if you said “Action Games” instead of “First Person Shooters”, “Platformers”, “Shoot-’em-Ups”, and so on. So to be more specific, I’m a […]
I recently got a phone call from Vistaprint. I use Vistaprint for my business cards and other occasional printing jobs, mostly because they have an excellent web interface for uploading art, previewing it, and indicating what features you want in your printed works. I don’t have to deal with a person, and the prices are […]
Here’s a letter sent to me recently: I’ve been a big fan of Textfiles.com for a while now, and I loved your BBS documentary; I am looking forward to seeing GET LAMP and ARCADE when you are finished with them, I know that they’re both going to be great. I started calling BBSs in the […]
I got a nice letter in the mail today. Hi, I may be contacting the wrong person, but were you involved in the production of a short called “Conspiracy Rock” about the JFK assassination? I loved that and have been looking for a copy of it for years. Are copies available? What’s touching about this […]
There’s this slightly ugly trend that’s been going on in documentary filmmaking for a while. I’m sure it has some roots going many years back, but it’s come into my radar and I’m not sure how well it’s been covered or mentioned, so I figured I might as well pipe up. Succinctly: For years, promoters […]