80 Days
2014 · Inkle
Source book
- Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne
Verne's wager, loosened until his route is one thread in three quarters of a million words.
Platforms
iOS, Android, Windows, OS X
Fidelity
Inkle's 2014 interactive fiction is loosely based on Verne's 1873 novel. You are Passepartout, managing money, Fogg's health, and the clock, and most routes are not the book's. iOS on 31 July 2014, Android on 15 December 2014, Windows and OS X on 29 September 2015. The developers have said one circumnavigation shows about 2% of the text.
Read first?
01
When to read first
Read Verne first only if you want his particular journey before you start inventing others. It will not spoil the game. The game barely uses it.
02
When playing first is fine
Play first. That is the right order. The novel remains a short, linear pleasure afterward.
03
Why
A loose adaptation this large stops being a spoiler and becomes a library that contains the book as one path.
Source
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_Days_(2014_video_game)
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