This is something that just turned up recently, and
something I'm quite pleased about.
A company called Ap endix llc have started producing
gamebooks for Iphone. They have begun with the first protius
magazine adventure Tower of Terror and I hope they're
planning on more.
Crytically however, and unlike Tinman and the attempts to
port Steve Jackson's original books to Iphone, the
developers of the protius port actually include! full voice over
support. This means not only does everyone with an Ios
device get speaking text and easily usable buttons, but also
the games are entirely accessible to the photonically
impared.
The game can be found here on the ap store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/proteus-the-tower-of-
terror/id832754003?mt=8
Sadly I can't find the developer's own site (sinse I want to
contact them and say thank you), but I am definitely liking
the setup. its' absolutely free but a few extra items such as
an additional save slot in the form of a bookmark and a get
out of death free card can be bought in the ap itself, though
of course they're not necessary.
I will confess I've been quite disappointed and somewhat
mistified by the fact that Apple include a very usable screen
reading program in their operating systemn, nearly all
gamebooks are made out of pure text, ---- and yet with the
exception of the works Choiceofgames (which are not
exactly gamebooks in the traditional sense), nearly everyone
has completely buggered things up in terms of access.
I definitely hope tinman and gamebook experience are taking
lessons here, and nin the mean time I'm having lots of fun
finding sticky ways to meet my doom in the Tower of Terror!
All the best,
Dark.
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