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If you love spending hours skipping from one Wikipedia entry to another, this game might be the perfect time-waster for you.

Built by London-based developer and game designer Kevan Davis, the Wikipedia Text Adventure is an interactive game that turns any location within the popular online encyclopedia into a gorgeously designed pixel art experience.

The rules of the game are fairly simple: Select the destination where you want to start your journey from and the website will tell you where else you can go from your current location. The adventure will then direct you to some interesting nearby places in various directions.

For example, embarking on your adventure from Amsterdam lets you choose between going north to Zuyderzee bay, east to the historic Blauwbrug bridge or southwest to the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. The destination you choose will then open up new directions and so on.

To go where you want, simply type the corresponding direction or click the destination of your choice. If at some point you get bored, you can also use the go to command to jump straight to more distant locations but that is much less fun.

While the game has been designed to take you only to Wikipedia entries responding to actual places, you can type examine (or ex) to learn more specifics about non-location entries you come across on your adventure. Type help to get the full list of hidden features and commands.

Check out the Wikipedia Text Adventure by clicking here. And in case you happen to like it, dont forget to check out this interactive 3D map that literally transforms Wikipedia into a universe of knowledge.

[H/T Holly Gramazio]

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What adventure awaits?!

Every destination has its default image downscaled into the kind of low-color, low-pixel version that might render on an era-appropriate monitor.

An example of some meandering.

A mix of going and examining.

FYI.

Wikipedia as a classic text adventure: this "game"nowexists, and it's thanks to a London developer who figured out a cleverway to interpret the gushing fountain of data that is Wikipedia's API.

The Javascript project works on any desktop or mobile web browser, and it starts out looking like an '80s Infocom video game box. (Always a good beginning.) Wikipedia: The Text Adventure generates alist of major landmarks, and clicking any of them takes you to a landing page with a basic location description as pulled from its Wikipedia article summary, along with a list of nearby locations marked off by cardinal directions. You're restricted to a text box, and, appropriately, typing "help" into it brings up a list of commands you can type. (Mobile users can also tap on keywords in the summaries, which isn't as cool, but it's a welcome alternative.)

Getting anywhere is as simple as typing "go" and its name, or you can learn more about mentioned contents by typing "examine" and their name. Want to pick something up? "Take" it. You can't really use objects in various places, but it's fun to, say, pick up the Mona Lisa.

Your available commands are limited because The Text Adventure was not built with narrative quests in mind. But its auto-generated images and focus on locations is novel in the Wikipedia-interpretation world, and the result is an intriguing example of how to turn the information project into an imaginary nation-hopping toolnot to mention an open, wide-eyed exploratory system that fondly recalls the likes of Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego?

Developer Kevan Davis starteda slightly related project a few years ago, which he launched in November 2015 as part of that month's "NaNoWriMo" novel-writing challenge. The idea: automatically pull textfrom Wikipedia's API tocreate abook. The result, Davis tells Ars Technica, was "a strange time-mangled version of Around The World In 80 Days," in which "mangled sentence fragments" connected a narrative that traveled "generally eastward" until it clockedin at around 50,000 words.

His API tool'sfocus on physical locations, complete with descriptions and relative-location information, gave him an idea: "you could put that under a player's control and make a text adventure of it."

Davis says he put Wikipedia: The Text Adventure out without building more defined content, like quests or significant easter eggs (though he admits he snuck a few jokes in). He doesn't seem driven to addanything major because, in initial tests, people didn't need the prodding. "It seems like people are having enough fun making their own queststrying to get home from far-flung corners of their home town, walking between two landmarks in different cities, or collecting an inventory of particular treasures or oddities," Davis tells Ars.

If you're looking for self-made quest recommendations, Davis offers a few:Pripyat ("being a tough place to explore in real life"), Lobuche, Nepal, ("there are enough articles near to Mount Everest that it's a bit of a puzzle to reach the top"), and the White House ("which has articles for all its rooms"). He's clearly spent time Wikipedia-ing through his home city, as well:"there's such a density of modern buildings and ancient history, letting you step from a Roman encampment to an unbuilt skyscraper, to a long-demolished 17th century coffee house."

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