Serious Game Classification

Hamlet: The Text Adventure Robin Johnson (United Kingdom), Robin Johnson (United Kingdom), 2003  

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Edumarket Game)

Keywords

Adventure - Educational - Interactive fiction - Medieval fantasy - Puzzle-solving - Reading writing

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting
  • Marketing & Communication message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Culture & Art
  • Advertising

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 17-25 / 25-35
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick MANAGE : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick WRITE : explanation of this brick
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Hamlet: The Text Adventure Claudius killed your father and he's feeling quite smug about it?maybe you should teach him a thing or two. But first you need a weapon, and you need to do something about your interfering mother Gertrude, and then of course, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern won't even let you out of the castle...

In this text adventure the player is cast as Hamlet and tasked with avenging the death of his father. To do so requires, in usual text adventure style, collecting items and performing actions that will lead to other items and actions. Characters from Hamlet all have an important role to play (except for maybe Horatio) as well as characters and situations from other Shakespeare plays like Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. Many of the solutions involve various bits of trivia from these plays, so familiarity with the works of Shakespeare is key to success. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Browser (Flash)

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