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{{game infobox|title=Contrived Text Adventure Game|image=|author=[[Alan Batsford]]|publisher=n/a|released=Oct-2006|authsystem=[[Inform]] 6|platform=[[Z-code]] 5|language=English|license=Freeware|color=none|graphics=none|sound=none|cruelty=Merciful}}

==How It Begins==
You are someone who is playing an uninspired text adventure game. You (your character in the game that you are playing) could be anyone, is carrying nothing, and starts in the Starting Room. The room description notes that you see a lockbox, a door, and a table. The game doesn't state an explicit goal.

==Notable Features==
* The descriptions in the game are entirely generic and abstracted as if being described at one remove. That is, the game is seen from the ''player's'' viewpoint, not the ''player-character's''. Here is an illustrative example from the game:

 >examine table
 You read a description of a normal table. The game mentions that you see some keys
 on the table, and leads you to believe the keys are for the lockbox.

* Other than the unusual viewpoint, the game is entirely as contrived and uninspired as implied.

==Versions==
===Release 1===
* ''Contrived Text Adventure Game'' ([[Alan Batsford]]; Oct-2006; [[Z-code]] 5).
** Release 1 / Serial number 061023 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 SD
** [[UMD 2006]]: This was a school assignment in the Fall of 2006.
** Room count: 3.
** Story file: [http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis487/z5/f06/batsford.z5 batsford.z5]
** Source code: [http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis487/z5/f06/batsford.inf batsford.inf]
** [http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis487/z5/runadvent.php?ZFILE=f06/batsford.z5 Play it online].

==Links==
===General info===
* [http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis487/z5/index.php University of Michigan Dearborn CIS 487 games page].

===Spoilers===
* {{dswxyz|Walkthrough|sol/umd2006.html#batsford}} by [[David Welbourn]].

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