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Champion of Guitars interactive fiction now on the web

And it works in your iPhone’s browser

Champion of Guitars interactive fiction now on the web
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If you pine for the days of the verb/noun parser and feel there’s a gap in the iPhone’s prolific catalogue that needs filling with a good text adventure, you might be in luck thanks to Champion of Guitars - a deliciously satirical text adventure adaptation of Guitar Hero.

This game runs using Google’s Parchment system - some kind of clever new code thing that makes no sense to me. Here’s what Google says about it for those programming clever clogs out there:

“Parchment aims to be a web-based Z-machine interpreter that uses open web technologies to provide the same level of functionality that desktop-based Z-machines offer, with added conveniences that only the web can provide.”

But that’s really not important. What is important is that this web-based text adventure works in the iPhone’s Safari browser, giving you access to a very entertaining interactive fiction game anytime, anywhere.

Written and programmed by 17-year old Bill Meltsner from Wisconsin, we confidently wager that his game won’t fail to raise a smile as soon as you figure out what’s going on.

Fans of Guitar Hero, Tap Tap Revenge, text adventures, iPhone innovation or even if you like a good read and are vaguely curious, it’s well worth typing the rather long and complicated web address to get you to Champion of Guitars.

We’ve adjusted the address below to compensate for the fact that you can’t type spaces into Safari’s address bar:

http://parchment.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/parchment.html?story=http://www.meltsner.com/random/Champion%20of%20Guitars.z5

Here’s one last tip: access this Pocket Gamer page through Safari and click it from there. Saves you the rigmarole of typing it all in.

Hopefully this is the beginning of a new strain of web-based text adventures for our iPhones, eh? Get playing Champion of Guitars and let us know your thoughts.

Spanner Spencer
Spanner Spencer
Yes. Spanner's his real name, and he's already heard that joke you just thought of. Although Spanner's not very good, he's quite fast, and that seems to be enough to keep him in a regular supply of free games and away from the depressing world of real work.