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Post by Peter on Oct 30, 2019 7:33:58 GMT
Hi, I'm Pete. I have been hovering around for long enough, making comments, so I thought it was time I joined properly. [...] Mudworm: hornswoggle? Hi Pete, welcome to the site. Hornswoggle – to cheat or swindle One of my many attempts to keep Jack sounding like a seadog from the (equivalent on Titan of) the golden age of piracy. It's also the name of a WWE midget wrestler, and a term Grandpa Simpson uses from time to time. I read somewhere that it's good pirate talk, but somewhere else said it's from the C19th which would be a bit disappointing if true.
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Post by Peter on Oct 30, 2019 7:42:23 GMT
Aye. Really, I don't care if it's 19th century or genuine pirate, it sound right, and playing in character adds to the atmosphere. Like Champskees, you are bringing the adventure to life. And it makes me laugh.
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Post by Peter on Oct 30, 2019 7:51:45 GMT
Alex I believe is located in NZ. That's where I'm hiding. Welcome, Pete! Chur bro! The Fantazine is a fantastic idea, and I the ones I've read so far are excellent. Big ups!
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Post by phenix9 on Feb 25, 2020 19:50:47 GMT
Hi there ! I'm a french guy living nearby Paris in France. As a gamebook and technology enthusiast, I decided to open a publishing house of gamebooks, playable on mobile and tablet. I'm currently preparing to launch the app and the first gamebooks, in 3 languages. Happy to find some like-minded people there ! Do you guys have any questions ?
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Post by scramblehead on Mar 4, 2020 15:10:55 GMT
Hi guys. I used to post (a little) on the old Unofficial Fighting Fantasy messageboard run by masterchief back in the day. Have been getting back into my FF collection again and was happy to find that an active forum still exists. Even more happy to discover that vagsancho is still kicking around - he is a national treasure. Looking forwards to posting with you all
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Post by kieran on Mar 4, 2020 18:55:00 GMT
Hi guys. I used to post (a little) on the old Unofficial Fighting Fantasy messageboard run by masterchief back in the day. Have been getting back into my FF collection again and was happy to find that an active forum still exists. Even more happy to discover that vagsancho is still kicking around - he is a national treasure. Looking forwards to posting with you all Nice to have you on board!
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scramblehead
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Post by scramblehead on Mar 5, 2020 4:46:35 GMT
Nice to have you on board! Thanks Kieran. I think I recognise your name from the old board. (Which if memory serves Masterchief shut down because he was frustrated people weren't using it?)
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Post by kieran on Mar 5, 2020 8:59:04 GMT
Which if memory serves Masterchief shut down because he was frustrated people weren't using it? Yeah, I think that was the case. I suppose he was paying for the domain name so it was probably pretty frustrating to see such little traffic.
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Post by offm on Mar 5, 2020 12:24:11 GMT
We cannot have that kind of expectations my site has been around since 2007 and is well documented on Google , but rare is the day I get more than 10 real visitors so a let us say 200 visitors a day I suppose is pretty good.
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scramblehead
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Post by scramblehead on Mar 5, 2020 12:50:54 GMT
Maybe so! I also run a site that doesn't get a lot of traffic. If I'm remembering correctly, he had to migrate the original TUFFF forums to a new location, which is when traffic suddenly dropped off. Kieran's response made me realise that must have been rather frustrating for him, so I do empathise. Still. It's nice to see that a lot of the old faces from that place are still knocking about here!
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 6, 2020 2:02:25 GMT
Welcome Scramblehead! Yes, Masterchief was really quite ill around the time the forum migration to Yuku abruptly kicked in. I remember logging in and being baffled that the background had defaulted to a style more suitable for My Little Pony or something. He put something more gothic in place, but it didn't change the fact that some people were banned from using Yuku forums at work and the usability was bloody awful. It seemed to make a point of scrambling posts of any length such as book solutions and mini adventures. TUFFF moved from being a mildly sleepy forum to a near comatose one, and as you say the frustration just got to Masterchief in the end and he deleted all the threads. (Does anyone know what happened to him?) I think there are even a couple of posts of yours on here from there.
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scramblehead
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Post by scramblehead on Mar 7, 2020 11:01:27 GMT
I think there are even a couple of posts of yours on here from there. I saw that! I noticed you'd managed to preserve some of the old forum's posts, did a search, and saw some of my own in the mox. Rather odd reading something you wrote 5 or 6 years ago...
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Post by slapbasswalrus on Feb 9, 2021 16:26:20 GMT
I’m Ed and boy do I feel late to the party!
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Post by tyrion on Feb 9, 2021 20:54:44 GMT
I’m Ed and boy do I feel late to the party! It's never too late!
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Post by slapbasswalrus on Feb 10, 2021 8:00:32 GMT
I’m Ed and boy do I feel late to the party! It's never too late! How do I get involved here? I’m not particularly familiar with board posts.
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kieran
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Post by kieran on Feb 10, 2021 9:32:45 GMT
How do I get involved here? I’m not particularly familiar with board posts. Don't worry too much. Have a look at the existing threads and feel free to share your thoughts on any of them or create a new thread in the appropriate sub-forum if you want to discuss a topic that isn't already covered. If you want to discuss a particular book, there's helpful links to the thread for each book here: fightingfantazine.proboards.com/thread/1064/gamebook-discussion-thread-indexAnd welcome to the forum!
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Post by a moderator on Feb 10, 2021 9:40:41 GMT
Read what's already here, and if you have anything to add to a discussion, join in. There's nothing wrong with reviving a thread that has seen no activity in months or even years, as long as you have something to say (preferably more than just 'Me too' or 'LOL' - you can use the like button to express such approval). Or start a new thread if there's a topic not covered that you think worth bringing up. Anything relating to one gamebook in particular is probably best discussed in the dedicated thread for that book in here, or possibly the solution thread for the book here. It should be obvious whether your comment relates to the book in general or its solution specifically ( should be, though evidently it isn't always, judging by the number of posts I've had to move). Have fun, and welcome to the board.
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Post by harrygaren on Feb 23, 2021 7:04:07 GMT
Hi everyone. I was delighted to find this site by a happy accident, whilst looking for info on a FF book. I've been a fan of the series for most of my life, and I think I may have stumbled upon my spiritual home, being able for the first time in my life to ask questions and have discussions regarding my favourite childhood pass time. My name is Harry, and I live in Falkirk, a Scottish town sandwiched between Glasgow and Edinburgh. In primary 4, at the tender age of 8, I became mesmerised by Tom Baker (Dr Who at the time) doing a TV show about a new kind of book. He announced that in this book you could actually take part, you could be the hero. It was of course, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. The next day I pestered my mother relentlessly until she bought it for me. The illustrations alone had me enthralled, and I loved the gamebook, my first 'proper' book and an entire year before I read The Hobbit. A week later, on my birthday I got Deathtrap Dungeon and Island of the Lizard King (I picked those due to Ian McCaig's brilliant, and at that age scary covers). Over the subsequent months I got the others, but felt dread after getting all 7. Then as I returned to Boots, where the others had been bought, to my sheer delight there were two, new books. Scorpion Swamp by a different Steve Jackson (imagine how confusing that was to a kid my age!) and Caverns of the Snow Witch. These were the first of the green covers. My gamebook enthusiasm had been born. I later found great affection for other series, with two in particular which I found to even surpass FF. Those were Lonewolf and The Way of the Tiger. Although looking back they were perhaps superior, (not counting the Sorcery epic which is my all time favourite series) for some reason they don't give me the same feeling of nostalgia. To this day I still have my collection, and in fairly good nick, which is not bad going when you factor in all the house moves in the past 37 years, including living in Spain, so how they are still in great shape, God only knows. Every now and then I will add to the collection, but still have approx 20 or so to complete the greenbacks. Anyway that's enough of me boring you with all my reminiscing. I am really looking forward to learning which authors you like and which books, also looking forward to chatting with you all. Never before have I been able to ask things like the following; For the initial years of playing the books it was mostly just Steve and Ian whose work I enjoyed, often being hesitant to buy any of the others. Primarily it was Ian's books I wanted, however as I got older I started to enjoy Steve's more. To this day, I find Jackson's to be the most innovative and enjoyable books, whereas a lot of Ian's I now find quite plain, and formulaic in comparison. I recently managed to acquire Port of Peril, and was very disappointed. I thought perhaps it was my middle aged sensibilities and not to judge what essentially is aimed for youngsters, but as I picked up Jonathan Green's Night of the Necromancer, and Jackson's Creature of Havoc (they were literally the nearest books), they seemed much more colourful and descriptive in comparison. Is this a fair reflection do you think? I know Ian can write, after all Deathtrap Dungeon is one of the best FF gamebooks
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Post by kieran on Feb 23, 2021 8:13:40 GMT
I recently managed to acquire Port of Peril, and was very disappointed. I thought perhaps it was my middle aged sensibilities and not to judge what essentially is aimed for youngsters, but as I picked up Jonathan Green's Night of the Necromancer, and Jackson's Creature of Havoc (they were literally the nearest books), they seemed much more colourful and descriptive in comparison. Is this a fair reflection do you think? Hi Harry, welcome to the forum! I think Ian writes down to his audience in Port of Peril, more so than he did in his earlier FF books. Its tone actually reminds me more of his Adventures of Goldhawk series. Night of the Necromancer and Creature of Havoc are two of the most sophisticated, mature books in the series. Probably the two with the biggest contrast to Port of Peril. I don't necessarily think being more youngster-friendly is a bad thing though. Demons of the Deep is very cartoony but it's one of the most fun, most charming books in the series. By comparison, some of the more overly complicated books like Night Dragon and Legend of Zagor don't do all that much for me.
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Post by harrygaren on Feb 23, 2021 9:44:34 GMT
I recently managed to acquire Port of Peril, and was very disappointed. I thought perhaps it was my middle aged sensibilities and not to judge what essentially is aimed for youngsters, but as I picked up Jonathan Green's Night of the Necromancer, and Jackson's Creature of Havoc (they were literally the nearest books), they seemed much more colourful and descriptive in comparison. Is this a fair reflection do you think? Hi Harry, welcome to the forum! I think Ian writes down to his audience in Port of Peril, more so than he did in his earlier FF books. Its tone actually reminds me more of his Adventures of Goldhawk series. Night of the Necromancer and Creature of Havoc are two of the most sophisticated, mature books in the series. Probably the two with the biggest contrast to Port of Peril. I don't necessarily think being more youngster-friendly is a bad thing though. Demons of the Deep is very cartoony but it's one of the most fun, most charming books in the series. By comparison, some of the more overly complicated books like Night Dragon and Legend of Zagor don't do all that much for me. Thanks for the welcome Kieran. Indeed it has been a long-time since I last played Demons of the Deep, and tbh I cannot remember much, other than it being an underwater adventure. I might get it down from the shelf case for a refresher. I do remember the cover art being fantastic. Along with Port of Peril, I am just about to try another of the newer books. Gates of Death by none other than Charlie Higson. I was surprised that it was the very same Higson which people in the UK will remember from a lot of comedy shows such as The Fast Show. I presume he is doing it as an homage rather than a means to earn money. It will be interesting to see what this book is like, and I hope it is a proper offering to the cannon, and not a parody. The reason for my air of caution is simply down to the look and feel of these Scholastic books. So far I have seen 2, both with terrible, computer generated covers. I mean what is up with these bare covers with just a small circle and graphic insert? The covers on FF books used to be spectacular! It was easy to see why people were drawn to them in a bookstore. These new ones just look cheap, as if they don't want to commission a proper cover artist anymore. Similarly I noticed that both books have the same inside artist, whose work appears very blocky, and computer generated. I really hope that this is not the case with the rest of the Scholastic books as I find that style cheap looking, and counter intuitive to a fantasy adventure. For me, the book art was integral to that feeling of immersion. Hopefully I am just jumping the gun, so with that, I shall snap up my dice and start a new quest!
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Post by a moderator on Feb 23, 2021 10:29:15 GMT
Welcome to the forum, Harry.
Like you, I started out preferring Ian's books, but over time came to appreciate that Steve's approach did more for the range.
The last decade's new FF releases have met with a mixed reception at best (and in some instances a near-universal thumbs down). Since Blood of the Zombies I've struggled to work up any enthusiasm for new additions to the range, and I've only skimmed the surface with the Scholastic ones. I agree that the look of them is far from encouraging. Maybe I'll get into some of them when I play them for my blog, but it could be a while before I get that far.
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Post by kieran on Feb 23, 2021 10:39:23 GMT
So far I have seen 2, both with terrible, computer generated covers. I mean what is up with these bare covers with just a small circle and graphic insert? The covers on FF books used to be spectacular! It was easy to see why people were drawn to them in a bookstore. These new ones just look cheap, as if they don't want to commission a proper cover artist anymore. Similarly I noticed that both books have the same inside artist, whose work appears very blocky, and computer generated. Port of Peril and Gates of Death have covers by Robert Ball, but the interior art is by Vlado Krizan. I actually really like Ball's covers (even if I still prefer the Puffin books for the most part), I don't know why Scholastic began sticking them in those crappy portholes, they look much better without: Krizan's art has grown on me a bit though some of his books are definitely better than others. His worst are definitely Appointment with FEAR and Shamutanti Hills, both of which have atrocious art. In other books, he simply copies the original artist but in his own style. Thankfully Robert Ball did the internals for Khare, Caverns of the Snow Witch and Assassins of Allansia and they are much better than anything Krizan has done. Eva Eskelinen did the cover (thankfully with no porthole!) and internals for Crystal of Storms - I would say she's better than Krizan but worse than Ball. Return to Firetop Mountain had a Ball cover but the internals are the Martin McKenna originals. Not too sure what will be the approach of the series going forward. Personally I'd like to see more from Ball, but I may be in the minority there. My number one complaint about the Scholastic books is how cheap they feel. The pages are flimsy jotter paper and the spines fade really quickly. They're also completely inconsistent in colour scheme too. Most have gold spines apart from Gates of Death (which is silver) and Crystal of Storms (which is purple). Doesn't make for the prettiest bookshelf!
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Post by harrygaren on Feb 23, 2021 11:15:10 GMT
Thanks for the welcome Greenspine. Kieran I am quite dismayed to hear that the internal art has been changed also. The Sorcery Epic was by far my favourite of anything in FF. I got them as they were released, when they were their own side series. A huge part of the ambiance of those books I felt was John Blanche's art, and unique style. It had a bizarre, almost grotesque feeling, which felt perfect for this series. As he did all of the art, covers and inside on all 4 books, plus the independent spellbook, it brought the creepy characters to life. I dread to visualise Krizan's interpretation. Also I own a first edition Citadel of Chaos, and that cover is peculiarly bad, perhaps the worst I can think of. So the above version you showed me is indeed an improvement. It seems obvious to me that they lost the rights to the original art, and I would love to know why Someone, somewhere is definitely penny pinching, and it seems much to the detrement of the legacy of FF. Also why is it only ever Livingstone who seems to be writing? Did Jackson retire from writing? My dream had always been to get a new Sorcery epic, but it doesn't appear to have been on the cards?
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Post by kieran on Feb 23, 2021 11:29:01 GMT
A huge part of the ambiance of those books I felt was John Blanche's art, and unique style. It had a bizarre, almost grotesque feeling, which felt perfect for this series. As he did all of the art, covers and inside on all 4 books No argument there, Blanche's art is brilliant. Yes, it's pretty horrible. Ball's attempt at Khare though very different from Blanche's, isn't half bad however. It's funny though how much the art can impact the atmosphere. The Red Eyes for instance I found very unneverving as a child and I think a lot of that was down to Blanche's creepy illustrations of them. Ball makes them less creepy and more quirky so I wonder would someone who read the new edition first be disappointed on seeing Blanche's version? Steve is apparently working on a new book but it's been quite a while since that was announced and no updates yet. I get the impression Steve doesn't overly enjoy writing them while Ian does.
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Post by petch on Feb 23, 2021 13:07:59 GMT
Hi everyone. I was delighted to find this site by a happy accident, whilst looking for info on a FF book. I've been a fan of the series for most of my life, and I think I may have stumbled upon my spiritual home, being able for the first time in my life to ask questions and have discussions regarding my favourite childhood pass time. My name is Harry, and I live in Falkirk, a Scottish town sandwiched between Glasgow and Edinburgh. In primary 4, at the tender age of 8, I became mesmerised by Tom Baker (Dr Who at the time) doing a TV show about a new kind of book. He announced that in this book you could actually take part, you could be the hero. It was of course, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. The next day I pestered my mother relentlessly until she bought it for me. The illustrations alone had me enthralled, and I loved the gamebook, my first 'proper' book and an entire year before I read The Hobbit. A week later, on my birthday I got Deathtrap Dungeon and Island of the Lizard King (I picked those due to Ian McCaig's brilliant, and at that age scary covers). Over the subsequent months I got the others, but felt dread after getting all 7. Then as I returned to Boots, where the others had been bought, to my sheer delight there were two, new books. Scorpion Swamp by a different Steve Jackson (imagine how confusing that was to a kid my age!) and Caverns of the Snow Witch. These were the first of the green covers. My gamebook enthusiasm had been born. I later found great affection for other series, with two in particular which I found to even surpass FF. Those were Lonewolf and The Way of the Tiger. Although looking back they were perhaps superior, (not counting the Sorcery epic which is my all time favourite series) for some reason they don't give me the same feeling of nostalgia. To this day I still have my collection, and in fairly good nick, which is not bad going when you factor in all the house moves in the past 37 years, including living in Spain, so how they are still in great shape, God only knows. Every now and then I will add to the collection, but still have approx 20 or so to complete the greenbacks. Anyway that's enough of me boring you with all my reminiscing. I am really looking forward to learning which authors you like and which books, also looking forward to chatting with you all. Never before have I been able to ask things like the following; For the initial years of playing the books it was mostly just Steve and Ian whose work I enjoyed, often being hesitant to buy any of the others. Primarily it was Ian's books I wanted, however as I got older I started to enjoy Steve's more. To this day, I find Jackson's to be the most innovative and enjoyable books, whereas a lot of Ian's I now find quite plain, and formulaic in comparison. I recently managed to acquire Port of Peril, and was very disappointed. I thought perhaps it was my middle aged sensibilities and not to judge what essentially is aimed for youngsters, but as I picked up Jonathan Green's Night of the Necromancer, and Jackson's Creature of Havoc (they were literally the nearest books), they seemed much more colourful and descriptive in comparison. Is this a fair reflection do you think? I know Ian can write, after all Deathtrap Dungeon is one of the best FF gamebooks I like reading childhood stories like this. Makes me feel all nice and fuzzy, especially as Harry's experience of getting into the series is not a million miles from my own (although I never saw that TV show with Tom Baker...would have liked to have seen that!). I've only joined the forum quite recently myself & have been made to feel very welcome, so hope your experience is similar to mine Harry! In answer to some of the things you've been talking about, my favourite books when I was younger were pretty much all Ian's too, but as an adult I find myself appreciating Steve's (amongst others) a lot more. Every contributor has their own individual quirks and styles though, and depending on my mood I'm still very happy to make time for all of them, including Ian's fairly traditional approach. Will be interested to see what you make of The Gates of Death. I quite enjoyed it, for what it's worth - but I don't think my view is very representative of the majority!
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Post by a moderator on Feb 23, 2021 13:41:25 GMT
The TV show with Tom Baker was called The Book Tower (though, IIRC, someone else had taken over as presenter by the time it covered TWoFM).
I first learned about gamebooks when I came across an article on TWoFM on the children's page of a Sunday supplement.
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Post by petch on Feb 23, 2021 16:09:17 GMT
The TV show with Tom Baker was called The Book Tower (though, IIRC, someone else had taken over as presenter by the time it covered TWoFM). I first learned about gamebooks when I came across an article on TWoFM on the children's page of a Sunday supplement. Thanks! The only time I was previously aware of FF being on TV was much more recently, on an episode of the rock hard quiz show Only Connect. I can remember the first clue coming up as '4: Starship Traveller', and I excitedly jumped off of the sofa and screamed at the screen 'Fighting Fantasy! It's Fighting Fantasy!', although the only witnesses present to my moment of triumph were my son, who was entirely uninterested, and my wife, who just kind of audibly sighed and shook her head sadly. I graduated to FF via Choose Your Own Adventure. I have a vague childhood memory of a TV advert for a CYOA book as a free giveaway with breakfast cereal. It was Weetabix if I remember rightly, and despite not actually liking Weetabix (I was a child and this was the eighties, so any breakfast that wasn’t basically formed of sugar-encrusted sugar was anathema to me) I was sufficiently intrigued to ask my mum to buy me a box (which I promised to eat) so I could get the book. It was called The Magic Path and I loved it, and read it and re-read it over and over again (as I recall it concerned you and your friends riding your bikes down the titular path which transported you a realm of Arthurian legend, replete with wizards and dragons and all that). Then I found out the book was just one of a series, so from that point my pocket money was saved exclusively to build up my burgeoning CYOA collection. I used to go to WH Smiths habitually each week to buy a new one, but one particular week my eye was drawn to a display of another book series arranged on the shelf adjacent, with gaudy lime green spines, brilliant cover illustrations and luridly appealing titles like uh, Hamster of Malevolence, or Peninsula of Massive Bastards. I picked one up and leafed through it, and despite not understanding the rules, was almost instantly hooked by the idea of turning the interactive fiction I knew and loved into an actual game. Oddly, my brain has completely deleted the first one I bought and read...I think it was one out of City of Thieves, Island of the Lizard King or Scorpion Swamp, but I really can't remember.
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Post by a moderator on Feb 23, 2021 17:23:08 GMT
Not that long after reading the supplement article on TWoFM, I came across a gamebook (Tracker Books' Skyjacked) at an annual book fair and, seeing that it was the same sort of thing as the one mentioned in the article, bought it and had a few goes at it. I then wrote a gamebook of my own ripped off from inspired by Skyjacked and started a craze for doing similar in my class at school.
A few weeks after that, the form master brought in and auctioned off a copy of TWoFM. I repeatedly bid on it, but then the other guy who also really wanted it got confused and bid more than the cover price, so I figured I'd be better off getting a copy from a shop, and let him have it.
Then I borrowed his copy.
Not much later I found CoT in a second-hand bookshop, and started my own FF collection.
As regards CYOA, I got several via Weetabix offers myself. Not The Magic Path - that was from the 'for younger readers' range, and I was a bit snobby about them. The ones I did get were: The Horror of High Ridge Ghostly cowboys and Native Americans reenact the massacre in which they died, killing modern-day citizens. Some endings lack closure. Mountain Survival Avoid getting killed and return to civilisation following a plane crash. More grounded in reality than most CYOA books, and pretty good. The Deadly Shadow Secret agent shenanigans based around the search for a man given random powers by an experiment gone wrong. Around 80% of the endings are lethal. Outlaws of Sherwood Forest Wind up magically transported to Robin Hood's era. Most notable (IMO) for including two takes on a scene where you can meet a version of yourself who made a different decision back at the start of the book.
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Post by petch on Feb 23, 2021 18:44:52 GMT
I then wrote a gamebook of my own ripped off from inspired by Skyjacked and started a craze for doing similar in my class at school. Oh god I did that too. I wrote several, but the only one I can remember now concerned you facing off against your nemesis The Bomber, who had developed a bomb powerful enough to blow up the world. In one of the endings he successfully detonates the bomb, but luckily you manage to survive by jumping off of the world just in time and grabbing onto a satellite. As luck would have it this satellite had a button on it that let you rewind time to just before the bomb was set off. So that was a good ending then, you see. I'm sad to report the original manuscript for this masterpiece is long lost.
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Post by a moderator on Feb 23, 2021 19:54:19 GMT
The one I wrote was called Smugglers, and was largely taken up with exploration of a cave system being used to store contraband. Well, I say 'exploration', but it was more just random selection of exits from different caves and tunnels. I'm pretty sure it would make any of Luke Sharp's books look mappable by comparison.
I remember that a friend wrote a not-based-on-Starship-Traveller-at-all-honest-guv gamebook with some spectacularly absurd endings. Most memorable were mistaking a black hole for a planet, and stepping through a random door on a mountain, plummeting through a shaft into the core of a volcano, and being transformed into a human-hating creature composed of sentient lava.
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