LOL!
Only gone through about 4 choices, but love the writing style...<smile>
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: <Gamers@audyssey.org>
Cc: <chroniclesofarbor...@yahoogroups.com>; <entombedg...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 7:23 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful doom!
Hi.
A while ago I was having a discussion with a mad person on audiogames.net
calling himself Aprone, about the difficulties of creating a gamebook with
numbered sections to turn to when you suffer from a lack of eyeballs and
cannot therefore use things like spider diagrams.
With his usual ludicrous speed, Aprone came up with the solution, a
program named Darkgrue, ---- somehoe because of me ;d.
Darkgrue will let you create a number of standard text files to be the
sections of your book, linked by choices which each lead to another
section. You can use the arrow keys to navigate around the pages, and do
some clever things like copy and paste different choices or create a
separate title for each section.
With all the navigation taken care of, you are then free to use your
imagination to open each file in notepad and come up with the actual book
text.
the program is self voicing, but also contains textual information, so
probably would be of interest to any potential gamebook authors, as it
could be a very useful tool.
I began a humerous test adventure with darkgrue basically to test out the
program. Being a simple game, it was to have no dice rolling, and just
feature choices based on the odd item. As is often the case though, what
was intended to be a comedy litle romp through a dungeon grew into a 90
odd section monstrosity with cast of monsters, puzles and generalized
insanity!
So here it is:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8vq939
For more about darkgrue, please go to Jeremy kaldobsky, aka Aprone's site
on
http://www.kaldobsky.com/audiogames/
Hope people enjoy the insanity of the book, and also get some fun out of
darkgrue.
I do have plans (and have already started writing), for a far more serious
book next, which will also feature a unique stats system including combat
and character attributes, and will be set in it's own rather distinct
world.
stil, I hope people have fun with dungeons.
if you get stuck, please look in the readme for some general hints, and if
your extremely stuck, i'm willing to answer questions, though I hope the
puzles are all doable.
All the best,
dark.
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