Hi Dark and all. I personally love gamebooks and cannot get enough of them. I have played all the books on ffproject and have gone through the Lonewolf series recently. I have tried to get Arborel to work but have had trouble, I've downloaded the HTML zip file, but don't know what to do next. Its just a floder full of files and I don't know hat I a looking for. This is the Windhammer game btw. I've looked on the site andit sees like only a couple of the gamebooks are completed, is this an ongoing project or has it been abandoned Are there any other gamebooks out there where you have to do your own charactor sheet etc, I enjoyed this part of doing the onewolf books and wanted to find some more. ffproject is all well and good but I like to do the sheets myself if possible which this doesn't allow unless you download the word or pdf versions. Thanks for any help. Rich
On 11/6/10, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi. > > well they have their devotees, however sinse unlike interactive fiction you > often need to write your own character ststats etc, some people don't want > to put in the work (which is imho a shame). > > There are actually people writing more ameter books, for instance the > chronicles of arborell runs a competition for one each year. I've always > considdered entering and in fact do have ideas, but thus far I've just been > too busy with work on my phd, games, doing stuff for audiogames.net, reading > a lot, all the things on stage I do and (when I have time to write), more > conventional forms of writing. > > Hopefully at some stage I'll get the time to sit down and bring my idea > about, sinse I certainly do have one. > > I agree on the death business, though some ameter books have done a good job > with this. > > Trials of alabas toom on the ffproject site for instance, has a room near > the end called the pit of death which has you descending down various poles, > slides and ladders to the bottom of a large pit. > > there are four or five 50 50 choices with an instant death at each. The > clever thing however is that throughout the first part of the book, if you > explore, you will find litle hints on which choice is dangerous and which > isn't. So for instance I recieved a hint about a box crashing to the ground, > so when presented with a choice betwene an elivator or a staircase in the > pit of death, I took the stairs. > > And of course, even if you miss a hint, you are not doomed sinse you stil > have a chance of survival. > > then, there is also saving, ie by noting down a certain section of the book > (or by noting the page if it's an html one). Though only supported by some > books this can be a way of avoiding instant death choices being quite as > dangerous, particularly in the longer, 500 or 1000 section books (windhammer > from the chronicles of arborell actually has rules to support this). > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <neoph...@inthecompanyofgrues.com> > To: <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 1:25 AM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game books > > >> >> Hey Dark, >> >> Thanks for all those thoughts. >> >> Picking up the old Choose Your Own Adventure books was quite the surprise. >> I had no idea how badly they were written. They just spiral all over the >> place and some of the deaths are so obscure and unexpected. In my opinion, >> ensuring that each choice is informed and conflicted is so important. >> >> Are game books popular here? I wonder how many of us who read and play >> them would love to write their own. I know I've thought about it many >> times. >> >> Thanks for the Cerepoc link. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Neophyte. >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
