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description: At the dawn of the electrical age can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world? Rewrite history with worldwide wireless power alien contact death rays and sapient machines!Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents is a 225000-word interactive science-fiction novel by Dora Klindi. It's entirely text-based without graphics or sound effects and fueled by the vast unstoppable power of your imagination.The man who invented the twentieth century was a queer immigrant from Serbia. Nikola Tesla dreamed of distributing free energy to all of humanity but passed away in a New York hotel room alone and forgotten. What if it had gone differently?In the year 1886 you join the eccentric Tesla as his laboratory apprentice. Notoriously bad at monetizing his inventions but nonetheless ingenious at building them Tesla needs your help with making a living wage as much as he needs your help in the lab.Fend off Edison's spies Wall Street bankers electrical industry magnates and other unsavory types as you navigate real historical adventures involving electrocuted elephants the Niagara Falls electric plant pigeons and that time Mark Twain had the misfortune of soiling his trousers in Teslas lab.Develop your own science skills supercharge your social life or opt to be more business-minded. Manage your mentor's fragile mental state while balancing your laboratory's checkbook. Love your work your pigeon or your risqu romance with Edison's daughter. Will you maintain enough funding and influence to prevent the destruction of Wardenclyffe Tower and perform the most esoteric of experiments? Bring free power to all contact the aliens or accidentally flatten a city. The history of the last great independent inventor as well as the future of society is in your hands.-Play as male female or non-binary; gay straight bi or asexual/aromantic.-Achieve fame through spectacular inventions people skills or cunning business.-Change historic events such as the invention of the electric chair the Chicago World's Fair the social unrest at the turn of the twentieth century and more.-Monetize your inventions or uphold Tesla's ideals of working for the betterment of humanity.-Uncover secret societies lurking in the background of early-capitalist New York.-Meet a cast of historic characters such as Thomas Edison and his family George Westinghouse Mark Twain J.P. Morgan Joseph Pulitzer Lewis Latimer Charles Steinmetz Lord Kelvin and many more.The world awaits in darkness ready for your electric light.
language: English
title: Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents
publisher: Choice of Games LLC