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Txt Adventure

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Chris Evans
Broadway Café Bar | 03.12.05 | 12pm – 10pm

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Free

Text Adventures were as close to novels as computer games ever came. Although out of favour now, they were big news in the early days of computers. Games were played by entering simple sentences like 'go north' or 'take apple'. The results of your actions were shown on screen in a series of paragraphs.

This text adventure is played by text message – players text their commands to the number on screen. These are sent to a mobile phone connected to the computer running the projection. The computer then enters the commands into an emulated version of the game, and displays the game's output on a big shared screen. Supported by May You Fund (part of the May You Live In Interesting Times festival).