Wikipedia: The Adventure

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Kevan Davis

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Published on: 2017/07/03

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Wikipedia: The text adventure helps you navigate and learn more about the world using a clever modification of the online knowledge database's API. You can start your #journey with a suggested location or choose your own, and from there on the game dynamically generates options of places to explore. #textadventure

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*"I'm always interested in seeing what else can be done with large, organised data sets, and the fact that Wikipedia's API can serve up coordinates and summaries of locations around the world made it nicely suited to being explored step by step.
It seems a nice way to explore a familiar area, to see if you can navigate it from memory, and to find a few surprises," Davis said. "Wikipedia gives coordinates for historical events and long-demolished buildings, so there's a lot to stumble across"*
Kevan Davi