This is Ventura 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.
1,864 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: Rancho Ventura, VC, Ventura V, Dudley House.
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: The Lebanese Oven, La Parrilla, Gloria's Kitchen, The Lotus Thai Massage By Nikki.
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: Ventura County Medical Center, Academic Family Medicine Center, Clove Dental Hillview - Best Ventura Dentist, Ventura Outpatient Surgery.
Desks with chairs, a bookcase of files and a few plants. It's quiet apart from keyboards.
For example: Coast Mortgage, Rincon Consultants Inc, Rci Ashwood Avenue, Llc, Buena Trailer Villa.
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: The Academy Of Culinary Arts, Tlc Preschool, Ashwood College Square Llc, College Square Barron Laundromat Llc.
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: Daylight And Moon Cafe, K D Donuts, Allison's Country Cafe, Bagelicious Cafe.
Styling chairs line one wall in front of mirrors, waiting chairs sit opposite, and the front counter is by the door.
For example: Rosario's Barber Shop, Rasha Hair Salon, Colours A Salon, Steelos Barber Shop.
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: New Vision Community Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, Church of Scientology Mission, Saint Paul's Episcopal Church.
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: Mandell'S Liquor, Smoke Shop Plus, The Ventura Meat Company, Trader Joe's.
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: Morgan Castro Grit & Glam Beauty Lounge, Chillax Hookah Lounge, Rincon Brewery, HIDE Hair Lounge.
Exercise mats, barbells and punching bags fill the floor. Dumbbells sit on a rack, and the front desk is by the door.
For example: Athletic Event Center (Large Gym, Fitness Center), Rbn Fitness, Great Scott Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness Super Sport.
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: Just Lovely Fashions, LM Shoes, Shoe Palace, American Eagle Outfitters.
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: KFC, Lalo's Fast Food, Carl's Jr., Jack in the Box.
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: Native Pizza, Domino's, California Pizza Kitchen Ventura, Sbarro.
A service counter faces a row of waiting chairs, and a flag stands in the corner. Offices open off a corridor.
For example: San Buenaventura Fire Station No. 2, Pacific View Mall Food Court, Ventura Fire Department Station No. 3, Ventura Fire Department Station No. 5.
A long teller counter runs across the back, a row of waiting chairs sits by the door, and banker's desks with chairs are spread across the floor.
For example: Mechanics Bank - South Mills Branch, CBC Federal Credit Union, Pacific Western Bank, First Citizens Bank.
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: Crystal Lodge, Ventura Beach House, Comfort Inn & Suites Ventura Beach, Residence Inn.
Fluorescent lights hum over narrow aisles packed floor to ceiling with snacks and drinks. Glass-door coolers glow along the back wall. By the register, hot dogs turn on a roller grill under a heat lamp, the slushie machine churns red and blue, and the coffee station smells burnt in the best way.
For example: Ventura Pure Fules, Mobil, Chevron, G&M Oil.
Glass display cases glitter with gems under bright lights, more cases line the walls, and the register is at the back.
For example: Fernandez Fine Jewelers, Kay Jewelers, Kevin Jeweler, 4J Jeweller.
Rows of bookcases run across the room, and reading tables with chairs sit along the front. The checkout desk is by the door, and a plant stands in the corner. It's quiet.
For example: Lillian Smolt Memorial Library, Library & Learning Resource Center - LRC, E P Foster Library, Ventura County Law Library.
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: Community Memorial Health System Outpatient Pharmacy, Cabrillo Pharmacy, Good Neighbor Pharmacy, Rite Aid.
The small office has a counter with a bell and a coffee pot, and a red VACANCY sign glows in the window. There's a rack of colourful tourist brochures, a humming vending machine and an ice machine. Down the row, each room has a bed, a TV on a dresser and a rattling wall air-conditioner.
For example: Rex Motel, Viking Motel, Silver Sands Motel & Apts, Topper Motel and Liquor Store.
The floor is a black-and-white checkerboard. A blue counter holds the tubs, red stools line up in front of it, a freezer hums, and an arcade cabinet and a pinball machine blink in the corner.
For example: Baskin-Robbins™, McConnell's Ice Cream Parlor, Sub Zero Ice Cream & Yogurt, Rori's Artisinal Creamery.
White display tables hold laptops and phones with glowing screens. A whole wall of TVs plays bright colours, and headphones hang in rows on one side. A service counter is by the door.
For example: AT&T, Verizon, GameStop, Iprotech Poinsettia Plaza - Ventura Phone Repair - Samsung Android Ipad & Iphone Repair.
Tall orange shelving racks rise almost to the ceiling, stacked with boxes and bags. A pegboard wall is covered in tools, paint cans are stacked in a corner, and a pile of lumber smells of fresh-cut pine.
For example: Franklin's Ace Hardware & Garden Center, Lowe's, California Door and Hardware, Home Depot Nursery.
A raised stage framed by a proscenium arch has closed red velvet curtains and footlights glowing along its edge. Rows of seats face it.
For example: Rubicon Theatre Company, The Majestic Ventura Theater, Century Theatres, Kellogg Park Amphitheatre.
Pedestals with artefacts stand in a grid across the gallery, with benches for resting and an information desk by the door.
For example: Mission San Buenaventura Museum and Gift Shop, A J Comstock Fire Museum, Albinger Archeological Museum, Museum of Ventura County.
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: Hotspring Spa & Patio, Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort, Fritz Huntsinger Youth Sports Complex.
A huge screen fills the far wall, and tiered rows of red velvet seats face it. The popcorn counter is by the entrance.
For example: Cinemark Century Ventura Downtown 10, Casa de Regalos, Dunn-Edwards.
Long, polished wooden lanes stretch away, each with gutters and ten white pins at the far end. Balls rumble back in the ball return, scoring screens glow overhead, and the shoe-rental counter is by the entrance.
For example: Buena Lanes, Robert Smith Bowling Services, Bowlero.
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: Timbre Books, Barnes & Noble.
It's dark, loud and lit in neon. Rows of cabinets flash and chirp along both walls, a pink claw machine full of plush toys sits in the middle, the air-hockey table clacks, and the prize counter trades tokens for tickets.
For example: Arcade Palace.
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: Tower Square Coin Op Laundry.
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