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Hello heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of One Shot. I'm James Damato, your game master.

This week we're continuing with our meditopia series as we bring you a play-through of Traction Park.

Traction Park is a darling little odd ball of role playing.

Unlike the standard game master and player setup,

Traction Park aims to emulate the experience of playing a game with a computer.

I'm sure many of my listeners are familiar with old text-based adventure games like Zork,

King's Quest, a personal favorite of mine being the Discworld Mud, and of course any of the

text-based adventure games the Brothers Chapman decided to put out on homestarrunner.com.

Traction Park uses the mechanics of discovery chaining fetch quests and specific limited answers to puzzles and puts it in a delightful beer and pretzels format.

It's what happens when you dungeon crawl without the combat and without the role play.

It's all puzzle solving and group thought.

It was definitely an environment where I was out of my element, but still a lot of fun, and baffling in a really novel way to have a human

being pretend to think like a computer right in front of me.

It's a style of play that's a railroad by necessity of form, and I think it proves that that's not a bad thing.

If you have a group with Epicurean tastes, a table full of puzzle solvers,

or you're just feeling nostalgic for the good old days of Zork, I recommend checking

out Traction Park and some of the offerings that designer K. N. Granger has in her catalog.

And now let's thank some of our backers on Patreon.

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