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This isn’t Wikipedia as we know it, but Wikipedia in the style of a text adventure.
The game is played online and generated from live Wikipedia data, allowing the player to visit any article which has specified geo-coordinates, and walk in compass directions to explore.
| Average Rating: Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 2 |
What a creative idea! This game pulls information from Wikipedia in order to build a game world for you to explore, roughly positioning different locations as "rooms" according to their geographical markers. I typed in the names of a few places in my city and had fun "walking" around the familiar locations for a little while.
The HELP command gives a lot of useful and amusing options for interacting with the world and system.
I was especially excited to find that (Spoiler - click to show)typing XYZZY actually has a response!
I enjoyed spending some time starting at Faneuil Hall, Boston and trying to make my way to Harvard Square in Cambridge. There were a lot of places I didn't know were there and some places I had seen before but didn't know were historic. The pixel art images were a fun aesthetic at first, but I ended up jumping over to the real Wikipedia and to Google Maps because I became very curious to know what the location actually looked like and if I'd been there before. Picking two locations and navigating between them like this could be a useful way to generate ideas for a story.