This is Chamonix as a text adventure. It uses the same real, named places as the 3D version, and every building is described the way you'd find it inside. It works with any screen reader and keyboard, and you don't need graphics.
Type a command and press Enter, or use the buttons. Try look, north, go to and a place name, enter, menu, order 1, sit, talk, leave or help.
546 named places from the real map are in this walk. Here is what each kind is like when you step through the door, with real examples you can visit:
Shelves of goods run in rows toward the back, there's a display table near the door, and a register counter sits beside the entrance.
For example: Casino Le Royal, Armando, Place Balmat, Haglöfs.
Tables with paired chairs fill the room, and high-backed booths run down one wall. A chalkboard menu hangs over the kitchen counter at the back, where a server stands ready. Posters brighten the side wall.
For example: Le Monchu, Atmosphère, Bizes, Le National.
The lobby has a long front desk with a brass bell and a wall of key-card slots behind it. There's a red rug with a sofa and armchairs, tall potted plants, a brass luggage cart and two elevator doors. A chandelier glitters overhead. Past the lobby, a corridor leads to guest rooms, each with a bed, nightstands and lamps, a TV on the dresser and a window.
For example: Grand Hotel des Alpes, Hôtel Lyret, Park Hôtel Suisse, Hôtel Mont Blanc.
Desks with chairs, a bookcase of files and a few plants. It's quiet apart from keyboards.
For example: Maison UTMB, Century 21, Mont-Blanc Arve Immobilier, SG.
A service counter faces a row of waiting chairs, and a flag stands in the corner. Offices open off a corridor.
For example: Chamonix Mont Blanc, Mairie de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Salle Michel Croz 2 - EMC2, Salle Jean Noël Marty.
Long shelf aisles run the length of the store, stocked with colourful goods. A glowing cooler wall lines the back, and checkout lanes wait near the front.
For example: Casino, Sherpa, Super U, Refuge Payot.
The espresso machine hisses behind a wooden counter, next to a grinder and a glass case of pastries. A chalkboard lists the drinks. Small round tables fill the room, and a sofa corner with a rug, a lamp and a bookcase sits by the window. Warm bulbs hang low over everything.
For example: L’Atelier Café, Irish Coffee, Galerie Café des Aiguilles, Natifs Café.
It's dim and warm. A long wooden bar runs down one side with stools and a row of beer taps, and backlit shelves of bottles glow amber behind it. Neon strips glow on the back wall, a game plays on a TV, and there's a pool table with the balls racked. Booths fill the other wall.
For example: O'Byrne's Pub, Bar du Moulin, Mix Bar, The Pub.
A front office greets you. Down the corridor, classrooms have rows of small desks all facing a whiteboard, with the teacher's desk in the corner.
For example: ESF, Centre national d'instruction de ski et d'alpinisme de la gendarmerie, Groupe scolaire de Chamonix Centre, Lycée Polyvalent Roger Frison-Roche.
White aisles of boxes in blue, red and green run toward a pharmacy counter at the back under a big PHARMACY sign. Shelves of prescriptions sit behind the counter, and a blood-pressure chair waits near the front.
For example: Pharmacie Suet, Pharmacie du Mont Blanc, Pharmacie de la Vallee, Pharmacie de L'Aiguille du Midi.
A waiting room with chairs and a coffee table faces the reception desk. Down the hall, exam rooms each have a bed, a small desk and a chair.
For example: Cabinet Dentaire Lacourrege, Malalapapat, Centre hospitalier Chamonix Mont Blanc, CeGIDD - Hôpitaux du Pays du Mont-Blanc - Hôpital de Chamonix - Chamonix Mont Blanc.
Rows of pews split by a centre aisle lead to an altar at the front, with a plant standing on either side. It's calm and still.
For example: Église Saint-Michel, Temple protestant de Chamonix, Cimetière du temple protestant de Chamonix, Chapelle des Praz.
Styling chairs line one wall in front of mirrors, waiting chairs sit opposite, and the front counter is by the door.
For example: Le Salon CHAMONIX, Le Petit Salon, Sensationails.
It smells of wood smoke and baking dough. A brick dome oven glows orange at the back with a stack of split logs beside it. Pies sit under glass on the counter, a chalkboard menu hangs on the brick wall, and the tables have red-and-white checked cloths with shakers of chili flakes and parmesan.
For example: Pizzeria des Moulins, Paradisio Pizza, La Roulotte à Pizzas.
Rails of hanging clothes fill the floor, folded shirts line the wall shelves, and two mannequins stand near the door. Fitting rooms with curtains run along one side next to a tall mirror.
For example: Ralph Lauren, Campervans Montblanc.
A bright counter runs across the back with three registers, and lit menu screens hang above it. Behind the counter you can hear the fryers hiss and the grill sizzle. Two touch-screen kiosks stand near the door, a soda fountain hums along the right wall, and booths line the left wall, with small two-seat tables in the middle.
For example: McDonald's, La Maison des Burgers.
The lobby is huge and bright, with cream stone columns and a round fountain splashing in the middle. Palms grow in big pots. There are white sofas, a reception desk and a pool bar with stools. The guest rooms have king beds, a lounge chair, a fruit bowl and a window full of ocean blue.
For example: Chamonix Resort Shop.
Tall wooden bookcases cover the walls, and tables of new releases are stacked with colourful spines. There's a reading nook with two armchairs, a rug and a standing lamp. The register is by the door, and warm pendant lights hang overhead.
For example: La librairie sauvage.
Rows of white front-loading washers line both walls, their round glass doors like portholes. Stacked dryers tumble at the back. A long folding table in the middle has warm clothes on it, a row of plastic chairs waits, and a change machine blinks by the door.
For example: Laundry of Lyret.
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