Welcome To The Text Based Adventure Game World Of Avalon.

Text Based Adventure Games - Some Questions and Answers

What makes a text based adventure game special? Well written text based adventures can evoke atmosphere and stimulate your imagination much more than graphics. A graphical game is directed much like a film - even the best directors present what their imagination tells them about a scene, not yours.

Why does Avalon stand out amongst other text based adventure games? First of all Avalon is online and a multiplayer game. It is a game world that advances in real time, whether you as a player are present or not. Avalon's unique and evocative text brings every moment of adventure alive. Adventurer gamers over the years have added their own lovingly crafted text and ideas to the descriptions, but all have remained consistent with the Avalon mythological adventure theme creating a game world without compare.

Surely an online text based adventure can't better the best graphical online games? Oh yes they can! Text based games have much more depth in all areas. Take communication. Even in graphical games that allow you to communicate with other players your speech is usually a limited amount of text based in a speech bubble. In a text adventure game that same communication between players blends with the whole; especially in a role playing adventure game where gifted players will craft their communicative text based on enhancing the role playing experience. Another example is facial expressions. In a graphical game very few are possible but in a text based game the descriptions are almost infinite, limited only by the player's imaginations. A lot can be conveyed by an expression at the right time and when it comes down to it these multiplayer role playing games are all about communication.

Is Avalon a multiplayer role playing game? Oh yes! That's part of what makes it so much fun. The earliest text based adventure games just followed a linear progression of puzzles to be solved, perhaps making up one overall quest. In games like Avalon you meet your friends (and enemies) within the game world and you adventure alongside each other either helping or hindering one another as the situation dictates. Avalon has very many levels of social interaction.

All text based adventure games look the same! You might say every book looks the same, but some are undeniably better than others! Oh, and how many times have you heard people say that "the book was better than the film"? Avalon is so complex with almost infinite outcomes for your actions that some refer to it as an interactive novel in which the player's write the story as they go along.

Why am I still asking questions? Who knows? Why not click here right now to create a new character and start exploring the world of Avalon for yourself?

If you would like more information before you enter Avalon choose from the menu options at the top of the screen where much can be gleaned about the land, though no amount of reading will about it will quite compare with the playing experience!