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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, "[https://itch.io/jam/talpes 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 [https://adventuron.itch.io/ Adventuron].

The Spanish version of the jam is co-organised by [[Juan José Muñoz Falcó|Juanjo Muñoz]].

==Links==
* [https://itch.io/jam/talp Text Adventure Literacy Jam  ] Website.
* [https://itch.io/jam/talpes Concurso de iniciación a las aventuras de texto] Website (Translation: Text Adventure Initiation Contest).
* [https://adventuregamespodcast.com/podcast/2020/4/22/episode-87-interview-with-chris-ainsley-of-adventuron Adventure Games Podcast], discussion of future jam concept, in May 2020.
* [https://adventuron.itch.io/excalibur Excalibur Sword of Kings TALP], reference TALP implementation, April, 2019.
* [https://medium.com/@model_train/the-text-adventure-literacy-project-2b9601099d39 The Text Adventure Literacy Project], blogpost launching the text adventure literacy project, July, 2019.
* [https://intfiction.org/t/announcing-the-text-adventure-literacy-jam-starts-feb-25th/49361/42 The Text Adventure Literacy Jam], announcement on intfiction.org, Feb 10, 2021.
* [https://adventuron.io/classroom/ Adventuron Classroom] Online browser editor/authoring tool.

Banner image by Mark Harrison, copyright of Adventuron Software Limited (used with permission here).