{"id":170,"date":"2007-04-20T18:43:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T22:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/170"},"modified":"2017-08-14T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T00:33:14","slug":"words-words-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/170","title":{"rendered":"Words, Words, Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of silliness to start the weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Remember those text adventure games from the 1980&#8217;s, like <em>Zork<\/em> and <em>The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, Robin Johnson created <a href=http:\/\/www.versificator.co.uk\/hamlet\/ target=_blank>Hamlet: The Text Adventure Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty clever.  I enjoyed playing it for a bit, then got frustrated and gave up.  Just like <em>Zork<\/em> and <em>The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But if any of you are interested in playing this game collaboratively, I&#8217;d be curious to see where it goes.  I got as far as Banquo.  (Yeah, you start to wander into other plays.)  Use the comments thread below to compare notes.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Never mind about playing collaboratively. There&#8217;s a <a href=http:\/\/www.versificator.co.uk\/hamlet\/hamhints.html target=_blank>hints page<\/a>.  So if you get stuck, you can go there and get as many hints as you need to finish the game.  It&#8217;s worth checking out for the Shakespeare-related laughs integrated throughout the game.  For example, Richard III will actually trade you his kingdom for a horse.<\/p>\n<p><!--459731377f540da55f9b0f8f3552a10b--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of silliness to start the weekend&#8230; Remember those text adventure games from the 1980&#8217;s, like Zork and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? Well, Robin Johnson created Hamlet: The Text Adventure Game. It&#8217;s pretty clever. I enjoyed playing it for a bit, then got frustrated and gave up. Just like Zork and The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,12,52,92,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamlet","category-humor","category-macbeth","category-richard-iii","category-shakespeare","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6243,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/6243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}