Howard Sherman is the president and founder of Malinche Entertainment, which is the only company currently selling Interactive Fiction. This is from the interview sessions that were used in the making of the excellent Interactive Fiction documentary, GET LAMP. The filmmaker's comments are at the bottom of this description.
Please note that I merely performed some light editing work on this video. Its original form can be found at the archive.org link below. I am not the filmmaker or interviewer of this video.
GET LAMP is a documentary filmed by Jason Scott. I obtained permission from Jason Scott to edit these interviews and host them on my channel, I hold no claims to the rights of this material, nor am I profiting in any way from this video.
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Original edited interview footage: [ Ссылка ]
Jason Scott's notes:
Howard Sherman could best be described as a polarizing figure in the Interactive Fiction community at the time I was doing filming for GET LAMP - in researching possible interview subjects, I would see his name in old newsgroup postings and mentioned by other interviewees, and it was never a neutral reaction. Having spent some time going over his writings and output, I could see why - he's an intense salesman in a community that is not big on intense salesmen. But what I also saw was that he was the type of person who could be selling anything - so why interactive fiction?
I scheduled an interview with him, and spent the afternoon at his place. He mentioned after the interview that he was ready to take on controversy, but I wasn't interested in controversy or personality conflicts as much as wanting to know what drove Howard to choose this medium. And the answer was a deep and close love of all things Infocom and 1980s text games that comes out very strong in the interview you see here.
I also have to note under full disclosure that Howard got me a steak. The steak was awesome.
