Prepare for some gaming nostalgia, as Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward has kick-started a real-time game on Twitter that acts as a throwback to the days of text-based PC adventures.
Ward tweeted a doodle sketch of a prison cell, with the comment: “You wake up in a dungeon cell. What do you do.”
You wake up in a dungeon cell. What do you do: pic.twitter.com/FOZvZjEZ7G
— Quest Attack (@buenothebear) May 20, 2014
Other users then promptly responded with a variety of different actions, such as “talk to the guard” or “check the toilet”.
What resulted was an interesting back-and-forth of Ward suggesting scenarios and the fans tweeting proposed actions.
You “Check toilet.”, @DeliciousRick: pic.twitter.com/lA1YDVn9lu
— Quest Attack (@buenothebear) May 20, 2014
Ward must’ve known he was onto something, and changed the name of his account to Quest Attack.
Has Ward just sparked a new way to deliver text-based games to Twitter? Who knows, but if you’d like to check out how it all played out, have a look at Quest Attack on Twitter and how the first day of the game evolved.
[Source] AdWeek
