Mermaid Adventure TALP

Mermaid Adventure is a short text-based adventure game created in Adventuron as part of the text adventure literacy project (TALP). It takes two-word verb-noun inputs, is easy/medium, slightly scary, has graphics, music and sound effects.

Suitable for all ages.

How To Play (from Excalibur: Sword of Kings)

A text adventure game requires that the player types commands either by a hardware keyboard, or if on mobile platforms, software keyboards. 

All commands should be ONE WORD or TWO WORDS.

To navigate, type one of the following commands (directions can also be clicked with mouse or touched on a touchscreen):

• NORTH or N
• SOUTH or S
• EAST or E
• WEST or W
• UP or U
• DOWN or D

If the player wants to take a ladder, type:

• GET LADDER or TAKE LADDER

If the player wants to drop the ladder, type:

• DROP LADDER

If the player wants to examine the ladder, type:

• EXAMINE LADDER or X LADDER.

If the player wants to redescribe the current location:

• LOOK

If the player wants to see what they are holding:

• INVENTORY or I

If the player wants to save or load the game:

• SAVE
• LOAD

If the player wants to do something, they should type the command in verb noun format - such as :

• DRINK MILK
• THROW SPOON
• DUNK BISCUIT

This requires the player to figure out the correct commands to resolve obstacles they face in the game.