GET LAMP: Richard Bartle on text and imagination
Channel: Gamebits
Date: 2013-10-05

In this interview, Richard Bartle, the co-creator of MUD1 (the first MUD, a predecessor of MMORPGs), speaks to the power of text and its ability to stoke a player's imagination in a way graphics and virtual reality cannot.

This video, filmed in June 2006, is excerpted from GET LAMP, Jason Scott's two-disc documentary about the history of interactive fiction, or text adventures. The film was released in July 2010 under a Creative Commons-Attribution-Sharealike-NonCommercial license, allowing such derivatives and distribution as this excerpt.

The full, unedited interview with Bartle is available at http://archive.org/details/getlamp_bartle with this excerpt found at 45:20 - 49:39.  Order your copy of GET LAMP at http://www.getlamp.com/