Game Classification

1893: A World's Fair Mystery The Illuminated Lantern / Peter Nepstad (U.S.A.), The Illuminated Lantern (U.S.A.), 2003  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Keywords

Adventure - Detective - Educational - History - Interactive fiction - Interactive fiction with graphics - Mystery

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Education

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
MATCH : explanation of this brick WRITE : explanation of this brick
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1893: A World's Fair Mystery Educational adventure game.
"A theft on the fairgrounds! Precious diamonds stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit! An urgent telegram from your old partner arrives, requesting your help to solve the mystery. How can you refuse? And besides, you've been dying to see the wonder of the age everyone has been talking about, this Columbian Exposition. And so, dossier in hand, you take the next train to Chicago.

But this is no simple theft. And as theft turns to kidnapping, and kidnapping to murder, you find yourself at the center of a plot the extent of which you can only begin to imagine..." (source: official website)

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Macintosh - PC (Windows)

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