Parsely games, including ACTION CASTLE, are like classic text adventures of old, but played with a human acting as parser and players issuing commands in order. Parsely is the brainchild of Jared A. Sorensen.
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A new Parsely adventure? It’s a Christmas miracle! We take a tour of the North Pole and try to save Christmas by entering basic commands into a human parser. What secrets lie in the Candy Cane Forest? Who lives atop Yeti Mountain? What is Mary Claus’s marital status? Tis the season!
December 17, 2019 • 46 minutes • Tony Sindelar with Jason Snell, Aleen Simms, Chip Sudderth, Monty Ashley, Annette Wierstra and Brian Hamilton
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You stop your bicycle by a forbidding wrought-iron gate. A cobblestone path winds its way to the north. To the east and west stretches a dark and lonely road. It is raining.
September 17, 2019 • 1 hour, 7 minutes • Spooky Manor • Tony Sindelar with Annette Wierstra, Dan Moren, Monty Ashley and Brian Hamilton
You stand among the ruins of the once-glorious Action Castle (castle castle castle). All that’s left is this courtyard, a lonely tower, and a few crumbling walls. A rickety wooden stairway leads up to the tower. A dark stairwell descends to the dungeon. Exits are: UP, DOWN, and WEST.
September 18, 2018 • 1 hour, 33 minutes • Action Castle III • Tony Sindelar with Dan Moren, Jason Snell, Aleen Simms, Kathy Campbell, Steve Lutz and Monty Ashley
It’s a text-adventure journey into horror, as our human players enter the mental hospital in search of the truth about their sister. They’d better tell the computer to SAVE GAME every now and then. You never know what might happen…
March 7, 2018 • 1 hour, 27 minutes • Parsely Adventures V: Z Ward • Tony Sindelar with Aleen Simms, Justin Michael, Monty Ashley, Steve Lutz, Brian Hamilton and Dan Moren
It’s time to play another Parsely game, in which a group of humans try to confuse a computer parser (played by a human). This time, it’s time to investigate a space station! Will it be an Action Castle success, or a Jungle Adventure disaster?
August 2, 2017 • 1 hour, 13 minutes • Parsely Adventures IV: Space Station • Tony Sindelar with Glenn Fleishman, Steve Lutz, Dan Moren, Brian Hamilton and Monty Ashley
It’s time for another journey into the realm of classic text adventures mixed with painful human dynamics, as we return to the world of… Action Castle! (castle, castle, castle). Yes, that’s right, we’re playing “Action Castle 2.” Can the sequel live up to the original?
February 15, 2017 • 53 minutes • Parsely Adventures III: Action Castle 2 • Tony Sindelar with Jason Snell, Monty Ashley, Steve Lutz, Aleen Simms and Glenn Fleishman
We return to the dangerous land of group text adventures with “Jungle Adventure”, in which the survivor of a plane crash wanders through a dark jungle. And wanders. And wanders.
March 29, 2016 • 48 minutes • Parsely Adventures II: Jungle Adventure • Tony Sindelar with Monty Ashley, Steve Lutz, Jason Snell, Dan Moren, Brian Hamilton, Glenn Fleishman, David J. Loehr and Scott McNulty
What if you cross a party game with an old-school text adventure? You get Action Castle, the game that turns a human being into an old-style command line prompt and a bunch of people into a single bumbling adventurer. Go west! Get fish! Inventory!
September 22, 2015 • 45 minutes • Parsely Adventures I: Action Castle • Tony Sindelar with Steve Lutz, Glenn Fleishman, Erika Ensign, Chip Sudderth, Jason Snell and Dan Moren