Text Adventure Literacy Jam

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Text Adventure Literacy Jam
Jam (series of events)
Frequency Annual
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Part of series [[]]
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Organiser
Events in this series
Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2021, Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2022, Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2023, Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2024
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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).

Organised by Chris Ainsley, author of Adventuron.

The Spanish version of the jam is co-organised by Juanjo Muñoz.

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