Wednesday, January 1, 1986

Adventure World

Adventure World is a free to play (although it's possible to buy items but not necessary) online social game for Facebook that uses the Indiana Jones license.  The dialog in the game was written by Hal Barwood, of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine fame.

It is a casual adventure game, as the puzzles that are there to solve are not hard, and the game is meant to be played in short intervals. The game blends the Indiana Jones lite style gameplay as seen in Indiana Jones and his desktop adventures with the gameplay in Zynga's other games such as Farmville. There are quests that can be performed where artifacts are collected and simple puzzles are solved, but the main part of the game takes place at base camp, where farms can be built, as well as wells, oil rigs, and plants. These all give you health and energy that you need, as gameplay is limited to how much energy you have at a given time. You don't play as Indiana Jones, but rather as either a male or female who is a new recruit to the Adventure Society, a society which Indiana Jones has correspondence with. As it's a social game at it's base, many quests and objects can only be completed by getting friends to join and send items or by purchasing the items with real money.

The game was originally called Adventure World, but Indy was gradually added into the game until it became Indiana Jones Adventure World on November 29, 2011.  Originally, you simply set up a mailbox in your base camp order to get the letters from Indy. After the title change, a new chapter was added called Calendar of the Sun where your character teams up with Indiana Jones on missions to retrieve artifacts.

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