William and Sly 2 is a gorgeous, ethereal fantasy exploration game wherein you play a nimble fox tasked with finding the scattered pages of your human friend's journal, while gathering mushrooms, finding keys to unlock mystery boxes, and freeing rune-bound spirits and pixies trapped in frost along the way.
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posted by taz
on Jan 16, 2012 -
14 comments
The London Geographical Journal, the preeminent publication in its field, observed in 1953 that “Fawcett marked the end of an age. One might almost call him the last of the individualist explorers. The day of the aeroplane, the radio, the organized and heavily financed modern expedition had not arrived. With him, it was the heroic story of a man against the forest.” Fawcett was none other than
Percival "Percy" Harrison Fawcett,
British soldier, trained as a surveyor of unknown lands, doubling as a British spy. But
his true love was exploration, and not simply to mark boundaries on a map. His final goal was the same that had been the demise of many explorers:
a mighty lost civilization in South America.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Dec 29, 2011 -
6 comments
Dead Cyborg has the heart of a text adventure within the body of a 3d engine (
youtube trailer).
Caveats: donationware - future episodes dependent on donations. burster plug-in required for browser play
posted by Sparx
on Aug 1, 2011 -
6 comments
Here Be Monsters. "Three friends, on a drunken dare, set out in a dinghy for a nearby island. But when the gas ran out and they drifted into barren waters, their biggest threat wasn't the water or the ocean—it was each other."
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posted by joannemullen
on May 10, 2011 -
49 comments
The web browser on the Kindle may not be the slickest piece of software in the world, barely sufficing for checking email and basic surfing, but there's one thing it excels at: web-based text adventures. Turn on your wireless connection, peck out
PortableQuest.com on those tiny little keys and prepare for a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. (You can play without a kindle as well.) [created by
edman, via
mefi projects]
posted by Vectorcon Systems
on Oct 6, 2010 -
13 comments
"For many riders, a
Ninja 250 is the bottom rung of a sport bike ladder, a necessary first step in pursuit of high horsepower race replicas. I can’t begin to recount the myriad times I’ve been asked about getting a bigger bike, generally with the suggestion, express or implied, that I’m ready for a 600cc super sport. With over 17,000 miles behind the bars of my mighty 250, I’ve no apprehensions about moving up." - A blog
documenting and occasionally
rhapsodizing about day to day living with a bike that is usually looked down on as a underpowered, beginner's bike.
posted by 1f2frfbf
on Jun 29, 2010 -
95 comments
Play Pen - It's a Wiki-based pixel-art user-created point-and-click freeform adventure game/story/experience. Look, just go there and
do something.
posted by Jimbob
on Apr 20, 2010 -
18 comments
Hetherdale is a full scale point and click adventure, for free. Don't forget to use the map option when it arrives in order to travel faster.
posted by Sparx
on Apr 5, 2010 -
20 comments
Bobby Model, brilliant adventure photographer,
died Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at the age of 36.
Here are some examples of his beautiful work.
posted by Matthias Rascher
on Sep 19, 2009 -
18 comments
Scarygirl. Flash platformer/adventure game with absolutely staggering production values and art. The intro sequence is awesome.
posted by juv3nal
on Apr 14, 2009 -
40 comments
Around Cape Horn - if you've ever wished for an authentic glimpse into the bygone era of the majestic age of sailing, this is it - a rare 1929 true adventure film about sailing a four-masted commercial barque around the Cape Horn during a huge gale. It was shot with a hand-cranked camera by Captain Irving Johnson who offers a spirited narration. 36 minutes, B&W
posted by madamjujujive
on Apr 11, 2009 -
29 comments
A man whose bravery and fame is matched only by his commitment to truth, the great
Baron Münchhausen has permeated all artistic mediums of any worth: books (
on-
line and
off),
films (
old and
new), cartoons (
french,
english), an
animated short film, an
online graphic novel, even a
game of
role-playing -- if you are so despicable a person as to, for no other reason than the amusement of yourself and your fellows, slander the Baron's name with lies of your own invention. Though a similarly-named
syndrome would falsely imply otherwise, he is an entirely honest man who exaggerates as little as he boasts, and as to the latter I have assurances from no less a personage than the Baron himself that his humility is without equal in the 7 earth continents, and 2 out of 3 of the moon's.
posted by TimeTravelSpeed
on Feb 27, 2009 -
22 comments
New Extreme Sports. Mega ramp skateboarding, ostrich racing, underwater golfing, pole dancing and pillow fighting are just a few of the innovative new sports you may see in future
X Games. (via
SpoFi)
posted by netbros
on Feb 6, 2009 -
32 comments
"Well behaved women rarely make history," said Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Scandalous Women brings you the lives, loves, and sexual adventures of some of the most fascinating women who rocked the world. Like
Olimpia Maidalchini who managed to achieve something that no woman ever has, for the 11 years of her brother-in-law Innocent X's reign as pope, Olimpia was the real power at the Vatican; or
Elizabeth Armistead, wife of a cabinet minister, courtesan to many. Read the bios and follow the tales of nearly a hundred women of scandalous pursuit from
Mata Hari to
Typhoid Mary.
posted by netbros
on Jan 16, 2009 -
14 comments
Youngest Briton to climb Everest dies in Alps Last year, two British kids skied, sailed, and biked through North, Central, and South America, en route from the
north pole to the south pole. They
made it the whole 180 degrees, but as you can read in the articles, they almost died several times. You may enjoy reading an
interview about that trip.
They had already climbed to the top of Everest at 19 years of age.
They were named
Adventurers of the Year for 2008 by National Geographic.
They
died this weekend, January 10, 2009, climbing in the French Alps.
posted by peter_meta_kbd
on Jan 13, 2009 -
31 comments
Wartime wandering through the Eastern states by bicycle, truck, and riverboat. 1944.
In 1944, a dear friend, Doris Roy, and I undertook an adventurous journey that we dreamed of during countless hikes together over our college holidays. We had been Camp Fire Girls together, loving the out-of-doors, camping and hiking the open road. Our dreams finally developed into a plan to ride bicycles from our home in Buffalo, New York, to Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio River met the Mississippi. We admired Mark Twain’s adventures, had read his Life on the Mississippi, and sought to follow his path to the Midwest.
We were 21 years old...
posted by Fuzzy Skinner
on Dec 28, 2008 -
9 comments
The
circumnavigators are out there. In February,
Mike Beaumont completed the fastest circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle. Tomorrow,
Rosie Swale, age 62, finishes her 4 1/2 year run around the world. As posted
previously, Zac Sunderland is now attempting to break the record for the youngest sailing circumnavigation of the planet, now held by
Jesse Martin.
posted by Xurando
on Aug 24, 2008 -
9 comments
Josiah Harlan, first American in Afghanistan, Commander-In-Chief of the Afghan Army, Quaker, and Prince of
Ghor; the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's short story "
The Man Who Would Be King" (and thus the
John Houston film). The title was gained for himself "and his descendants in perpetuity" and never rescinded, making actor
Scott Reiniger (
Dawn of the Dead), Harlan's great, great, great grandson, technically a prince of Afghanistan.
(previously)
Ursula Graham-Bower, an English archeology student who ventured to India in 1939 "to putter about with a few cameras and do a bit of medical work, maybe write a book" and ended up in the jungle on the Burmese border as "Queen of the Nagas", leading headhunting tribes against the advancing Japanese Army. (
Real Audio BBC Radio history segment,
extended MP4 video interview from 1985, shortly before her death,
online archive).
The "
White Rajas" of the Kingdom of Sarawak, a dynasty of the Brooke family, who ruled a region of Brunei for over a century; the progenitor of the family, James Brooke, was likely an inspiration for Joseph Conrad's "
Lord Jim".
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posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Aug 13, 2008 -
18 comments
Fascinating account (w/ pix) of a motorcycle journey through Angola. Stumbled onto this from the Black Flag forums and have not been able to stop reading it.
posted by jcruelty
on May 26, 2008 -
40 comments
