Text Adventure Literacy Jam
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| Text Adventure Literacy Jam | |
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| Jam (series of events) | |
| Frequency | Annual |
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| Events in this series | |
| Concurso de iniciación a las aventuras de texto, Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2021, Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2022, Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2023, Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2024, Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2025 | |
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The Text Adventure Literacy Jam is a parser-based text adventure authoring competition that challenges entrants to "Create a TEXT ADVENTURE game suitable for children with no prior experience.".
This jam has a partner jam, Concurso de iniciación a las aventuras de texto (rough translation: Text Adventure Initiation Contest), for Spanish language entries, which has a very similar set of rules, but slightly different prize pool, and will have a completely different entries and winners.
Non exhaustive rules include:
- Game must use a VERB NOUN parser.
- Game must report to the player if they use more than 2 complex words (some transitional words (such as 'the' are permitted at author discretion, hard two word rule is recommended).
- Game must have integrated tutorials teaching standard text adventure concepts such as (getting, dropping, examining, taking inventory, navigation, as well as hand hold at least one verb noun puzzle solution).
- Game must not use irrational or diagonal directions.
- Game must be playable by using the keyboard alone but also permits touch/mouse/gamepad or voice inputs as secondary control methods.
- Game must be suitable for children.
- Search and examine are synonyms (English language only rule).
- English language (for Text Adventure Literacy Jam_=).
- Spanish language (for Concurso de iniciación a las aventuras de texto).
Organised by Chris Ainsley, author of Adventuron.
The Spanish version of the jam is co-organised by Juanjo Muñoz.
Links
- Text Adventure Literacy Jam Website.
- Concurso de iniciación a las aventuras de texto Website (Translation: Text Adventure Initiation Contest).
- Adventure Games Podcast, discussion of future jam concept, in May 2020.
- Excalibur Sword of Kings TALP, reference TALP implementation, April, 2019.
- The Text Adventure Literacy Project, blogpost launching the text adventure literacy project, July, 2019.
- The Text Adventure Literacy Jam, announcement on intfiction.org, Feb 10, 2021.
- Adventuron Classroom Online browser editor/authoring tool.
Banner image by Mark Harrison, copyright of Adventuron Software Limited (used with permission here).