When: Ongoing
Platform: Twitter/Instagram
Price: Free; 8+
Tags: #branchingnarrative, #scavengerhunt, #interactive
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Author Leila Sales has created a new choose-your-own-adventure-style game specifically designed for the lockdown: Ada and the Lost Horizon. It’s a scavenger hunt within the confines of your own home; a real-world Ready Player One experience; and a community-oriented coronavirus quarantine activity that takes you on an imaginary journey to another world — while taking you on a physical journey away from your computer screen.
The premise: A young woman named Ada wakes to find herself alone. She was supposed to be here with her younger brother, Teddy. She was supposed to be watching out for him. But Teddy has disappeared in the night. Ada must find him, but her only clue is a ransom note. What the ransom note says, where it leads her, and if and how she ever manages to see her brother again… that’s completely up to the player.
How to play:
1) Read each scene when it’s released on Leila’s Instagram and Twitter every other day at 4pm ET.
2) Each scene is accompanied by instructions for an offline task that can be completed in the safety of your own house. You have 24 hours to complete the task and share it to social media using the hashtag #AdaAndTheLostHorizon. One player’s completion of each task will be selected to determine the course of the rest of the story.
3) Enjoy other players’ completions, invite your friends to play, and find out where Ada’s journey takes her next…
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Content Advisories: Appropriate for ages 8 and up.
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