Making a Text Adventure Documentary
Jason Scott explores making a text adventure documentary at DEF CON 16, examining emergency-systems and practical defenses.
Summary
Architecture and Background
DEF CON 16 - Jason Scott: Making a Text Adventure Documentary For the past 3 years, Jason Scott (creator of BBS: The Documentary) has been working on another project, telling the history and the legends of text adventure games.
Vulnerability Analysis
80 interviews later, he comes to DEFCON to show footage, describe the process of making the film, why history of games is important, and what it was like to visit the actual cave the first adventure game was based on.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
Jason Scott is celebrating 10 years of running his computer history archive TEXTFILES.COM.
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
He is a documentary filmmaker, computer historian, retro-nostalgia cynic, and blabbermouth. He lives in Massachusetts with a very, very large pile of stuff. His weblog tends to be at For copies of the slides and additional materials please see the DEF CON 16 Archive here:
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