Cameron City

8.5" X 11"

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Bill Perry

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For the third daily summary in ART vs Art I decided to use the Cameron as a setting for a mock adventure game called Cameron City. The images began as polaroid photos of the scene.

Even though the Norpak IPS was my first computer, it wasn't the first computer I used.  Around 79-81 I was an avid Apple II game player, including Space Invaders. My favourite kind of game was a genre known as "Adventure". These were text only games, no grapphics. A line would appear: "You're standing beside a river. There is gold in the water. There is a discarded shield behind you" and the user would type commands e.g. "get gold".