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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jun 18, 2013 4:08:11 GMT
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sylas
Baron
"Don't just adventure for treasure; treasure the adventure!"
Posts: 1,744
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy, Way of the Tiger
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Post by sylas on Jun 18, 2013 22:41:25 GMT
could someone explain how to enlarge my avatar please? i'm useless at this kinda thing
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jun 19, 2013 0:59:06 GMT
Your avatar appears to have a lot of white space around it. Perhaps trimming this off and re-uploading your avatar may help make it appear bigger.
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Jonathan Green
Squire
Posts: 49
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Jonathan Green on Jun 19, 2013 8:47:43 GMT
Hello hello! It's good to be here. :-)
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Jonathan Green
Squire
Posts: 49
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Jonathan Green on Jun 19, 2013 8:48:53 GMT
I'm loving your avatar Alex. Is that a FF cover featuring the Headless Highwayman by any chance?
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jun 19, 2013 9:35:10 GMT
I'm loving your avatar Alex. Is that a FF cover featuring the Headless Highwayman by any chance? Sadly not. It is a mockup of The Lord of Shadow Keep by Oliver Johnson as if it had been published as FF #13 as originally planned. Johnson had it published as part of the "Golden Dragon" range instead: link
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Post by paltogue on Sept 29, 2013 14:22:19 GMT
Hi all,
You'll maybe have noticed that the Unofficial Forum has been closed by Masterchief (who is, thankfully, getting better). I sent him a message asking him about it and about the content on there and he replied as follows:
"It was the right time to close it. People weren't posting, and the interest since the upgrade had waned significantly. I felt like I was flogging a dead horse, and it's better to close it down now, giving it the respect it deserves, than let it fade into an internet ghost town. You were one of the few members that still logged in almost daily, everyone else barely comes by even once a week. I put a lot of work on resources, I've created icons and banners and backgrounds, even using my phone from the hospital bed much to the annoyance of the ward nurse, but people just weren't interested in hanging around despite my encouragement for them to keep posting. I had no feedback on aesthetic changes and people just largely seemed disinterested with many expressing a desire to start a new forum and move there. I'm afraid that as far as I know, everything is gone. I removed all of the topics and it appears the posts have been deleted along with them. If people didn't have copies of their reviews (I always encouraged people to write their reviews in Word Pad or some such before posting them) then they are most likely gone. Any online storage for things like documents or artwork should only ever be trusted as a possible backup, not the sole source ... Please pass my wishes on to Gallicus; if he would like to put a few lines in the news of the next fantazine letting people know the forum has closed then that would be great."
So it looks like that's the finish of what was a very fun forum. It would be a pity if we can't reassemble somewhere else (e.g. Alex's Fantazine forum). What do you think? It would also be nice to have an archive of the reviews and soultions that were on there.
Warren.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Sept 29, 2013 18:47:58 GMT
Hi all, You'll maybe have noticed that the Unofficial Forum has been closed by Masterchief (who is, thankfully, getting better). I sent him a message asking him about it and about the content on there and he replied as follows: "It was the right time to close it. People weren't posting, and the interest since the upgrade had waned significantly. I felt like I was flogging a dead horse, and it's better to close it down now, giving it the respect it deserves, than let it fade into an internet ghost town. You were one of the few members that still logged in almost daily, everyone else barely comes by even once a week. I put a lot of work on resources, I've created icons and banners and backgrounds, even using my phone from the hospital bed much to the annoyance of the ward nurse, but people just weren't interested in hanging around despite my encouragement for them to keep posting. I had no feedback on aesthetic changes and people just largely seemed disinterested with many expressing a desire to start a new forum and move there. I'm afraid that as far as I know, everything is gone. I removed all of the topics and it appears the posts have been deleted along with them. If people didn't have copies of their reviews (I always encouraged people to write their reviews in Word Pad or some such before posting them) then they are most likely gone. Any online storage for things like documents or artwork should only ever be trusted as a possible backup, not the sole source ... Please pass my wishes on to Gallicus; if he would like to put a few lines in the news of the next fantazine letting people know the forum has closed then that would be great." So it looks like that's the finish of what was a very fun forum. It would be a pity if we can't reassemble somewhere else (e.g. Alex's Fantazine forum). What do you think? It would also be nice to have an archive of the reviews and soultions that were on there. Warren. That was unexpected! I hadn't been posting much for a variety of reasons, such trying to finish up issue #12.
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Post by paltogue on Sept 29, 2013 19:19:07 GMT
What do you think to the idea of an advertising blitz to get everyone on here? You're bound to have emails for most people, including some of those who disappeared when the forum messed up a while back. It'd be a shame not to have a home for FF chat on the web.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Sept 29, 2013 19:22:11 GMT
What do you think to the idea of an advertising blitz to get everyone on here? You're bound to have emails for most people, including some of those who disappeared when the forum messed up a while back. It'd be a shame not to have a home for FF chat on the web. Most of the people I have an email address for are already members here. It is all those not involved with the magazine that need to be told about this forum. I used the Yuku forum (our old forum) software to send a message about this place to those members of the old forum who had posted in the last couple of months - I couldn't get access to a full list of members.
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Post by vastariner on Sept 29, 2013 22:23:26 GMT
I don't suppose anyone archived any of the old threads, did they? I wish they had been left in situ - if the forum were to be closed that would at least have been a legacy. There must have been a lot of material there that was unavailable elsewhere - and now is lost...
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Sept 30, 2013 1:46:43 GMT
I don't suppose anyone archived any of the old threads, did they? Not to my knowledge. I had ported most (but not all) of the communal FF adventure "The Manor on Crimson Hill" to this site some time ago, but nothing else.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Sept 30, 2013 3:26:12 GMT
Hello everyone. I don't suppose anyone archived any of the old threads, did they? I wish they had been left in situ - if the forum were to be closed that would at least have been a legacy. There must have been a lot of material there that was unavailable elsewhere - and now is lost... It does seem a shame the whole forum is just gone. Of course, a lot of it will be Google cached at the moment but -Not all of it -It could disappear quite quickly and -Getting it saved in a useable form might be a nightmare My FF knowledge is pretty low-grade so the threads I actually posted in were mostly based on puns about vaulting off vampires but still, I liked 'em... Can anything that's salvaged be posted over here?
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Post by a moderator on Sept 30, 2013 14:54:35 GMT
Thanks for mentioning the Google cache. While lamentably incomplete, that has enabled me to salvage a few of my playthroughs, not to mention Champskees' parody solution to Island of the Undead. It would be a tragedy if the latter had been lost for good.
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Post by paltogue on Sept 30, 2013 15:05:33 GMT
Thanks for mentioning the Google cache. While lamentably incomplete, that has enabled me to salvage a few of my playthroughs, not to mention Champskees' parody solution to Island of the Undead. It would be a tragedy if the latter had been lost for good. The only other two of Champskees solutions I've been able to retrieve are HoH and CoM. I'm sure he has copies of the others himself. Anybody know how to get him on here? There were loads of good playthroughs and reviews on there by the likes of Oakdweller and others who I think have, for the time being, disappeared, which is a real shame.
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Post by paltogue on Sept 30, 2013 18:51:23 GMT
Hurray! Hynreck has signed up.
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Post by hynreck on Oct 1, 2013 1:45:54 GMT
Hello, Dominic Marcotte here, some of you know me under this same old username. Wait, that's not the introduce yourself thread... Nevermind then. I'm happy to be here and hopefully we'll be able to move on. Those are great times for gamebooks, exciting times, if not for Fighting Fantasy that much. I mean, have you seen all the re-release for the Golden Dragon series, the Critical IF (virtual reality), the kickstarter for The Way of the Tiger? Even Lone Wolf keeps on trucking albeit at a very slow pace. Exciting.
As for myself, I'm quite disheartened to have lost all my reviews. They were not that well-crafted but I did pour a lot of time into those. Of course it's my own damn fault for not making any backup copies. Blame my naïvety. But I'll be thinking twice before posting any new one (I was thinking of doing all the other gamebooks I own eventually). Well, we'll see. In the meantime, let's hope we can all find each other one more time in here before the Grim comes a-calling again.
Dom
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Post by paltogue on Oct 1, 2013 7:28:31 GMT
Good to have you on here Hynreck. But, 'Dom'? For some reason I can't process that! It sounds far too sensible. You will always be Hynreck in my mind I'm afraid. Let the fun begin!
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Oct 1, 2013 11:57:28 GMT
Thanks for mentioning the Google cache. While lamentably incomplete, that has enabled me to salvage a few of my playthroughs, not to mention Champskees' parody solution to Island of the Undead. It would be a tragedy if the latter had been lost for good. That's good. I never commented on that thread, but it did make me laugh very loudly at 3.30am. It must have woken my housemates up so I'm glad they never asked for an explanation. I've been trying to scrape the original book discussion pages off Google. Most have either just gone or don't have a proper cache, but there are a handful. If it's OK with Alex B I'm going to start posting up a thread for each one I've found. I think I've got all that are there. It's seems the rule is that even when there is a Google cache of a thread, it never extends past page 1, which often doesn't matter for walkthroughs but pretty bad for a lot of things.
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Post by hynreck on Oct 1, 2013 12:27:58 GMT
You do what you can, almightymudworm, it will be nice and fun to see what you can come up with. ...and Paltogue, the Dom thing was a one time only special Well, make it two times I guess!
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Post by a moderator on Oct 1, 2013 15:07:33 GMT
It's seems the rule is that even when there is a Google cache of a thread, it never extends past page 1, which often doesn't matter for walkthroughs but pretty bad for a lot of things. It's more complex than that. With the 'books in order' thread, the cache contained the first page, the last page, around half a dozen of the individual posts to which I'd linked from my blog (though not the most recent one) and, for reasons I can't begin to fathom, page 15.
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Post by hynreck on Oct 1, 2013 15:31:56 GMT
...but, but, it's page 15! With page 19 it's just about the most important page ever! Everyone knows that...
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Oct 1, 2013 18:07:44 GMT
You do what you can, almightymudworm, it will be nice and fun to see what you can come up with. ...and Paltogue, the Dom thing was a one time only special Well, make it two times I guess! Thanks. I've decided to re-create the first pages of the book discussion threads post-by-post where possible. There are some excellent reasons for not doing this, as it's time-consuming and also means that posts are lovingly preserved wondering 'why is this font doing that?' wrt a forum that no longer exists. But it seems more natural to have reviews kept as part of a living thread. (Walkthroughs are a different kettle of fish.) I've popped up three so far. It seems there may be a couple more book threads still available than I thought. I'd been looking for them using the phrase 'loo roll' as the OP always mentioned that. But it seems that searches for loo roll are not always successful. It's seems the rule is that even when there is a Google cache of a thread, it never extends past page 1, which often doesn't matter for walkthroughs but pretty bad for a lot of things. It's more complex than that. With the 'books in order' thread, the cache contained the first page, the last page, around half a dozen of the individual posts to which I'd linked from my blog (though not the most recent one) and, for reasons I can't begin to fathom, page 15. Interesting. I was seeing page 1 alone so many times I just assumed. Perhaps it's to do with the page being linked to from elsewhere then? People would usually do that to page 1 but not always. I dunno. Anyway, I'm certainly not recreating 200 post-long threads!
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Post by hynreck on Oct 1, 2013 18:34:28 GMT
Yes, mostly I'd say you can skip on all the nonsense, which means I will certainly loose about 1000 posts but hey, it's alright! Just stick to the meat, well, whatever you can find, of course.
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Post by champskees on Oct 2, 2013 2:07:32 GMT
So stupid for not backing up those solutions either! WIll try to salvage as much as I can...
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kieran
Baron
Posts: 2,547
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on Oct 2, 2013 22:05:12 GMT
Hi all, glad to have found a friendly shore to wash up on. It's a shame the old forum closed. Feel bad for MC, the main reason I stopped posting so much was I generally posted in my breaks at work and unfortunately Yuku was a blocked site at work. Shame to lose so many good posts but I guess nothing lasts forever. Let's hope to get a good few years of FF discussion here though!
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Oct 3, 2013 0:43:19 GMT
Hi Champskees, Kieran.
I was wondering: Should the sillier 'If the FF books were dogs what would they be?' sort of threads - whether recovered or new - go in the FF forum or General Chat?
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Oct 3, 2013 1:14:37 GMT
I was wondering: Should the sillier 'If the FF books were dogs what would they be?' sort of threads - whether recovered or new - go in the FF forum or General Chat? Put them in the FF one since it is specifically about FF.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 0:33:49 GMT
You do what you can, almightymudworm, it will be nice and fun to see what you can come up with. ...and Paltogue, the Dom thing was a one time only special Well, make it two times I guess! Thanks. I've decided to re-create the first pages of the book discussion threads post-by-post where possible. There are some excellent reasons for not doing this, as it's time-consuming and also means that posts are lovingly preserved wondering 'why is this font doing that?' wrt a forum that no longer exists. But it seems more natural to have reviews kept as part of a living thread. (Walkthroughs are a different kettle of fish.) I've popped up three so far. Someone said a while ago that some people are sort of waiting to post until this is all done. Not sure if that's true but I thought I should say where it's at just in case. There are now threads open for all of the gamebooks and novels except 50) Return to Firetop Mountain 56) Knights of Doom 63) Stormslayer 64) Night of the Necromancer As it happens, the three started by people other than hynreck and me were ones for which either nothing whatever survived from TUFFF (Chasms of Malice and Revenge of the Vampire) or in the case of Blood of the Zombies the surviving posts from the first page are all pre-publication. They basically say: ‘I hope that it’s good and that he doesn’t call it Blood of the Zombies.’ If I’ve started a thread, I’ve posted all there is. Sometimes if hynreck’s started a thread with his review there may be a few bits and pieces left over from other posters which I’ll add but there’s not much really. For the last four: RtFM’s first page isn’t too badly damaged so that will probably go up as a whole once hynreck’s cleaned up his review, but there’s not much of the others. KoD definitely needs to be started afresh. I’ll probably post the scraps there are for Stormslayer but leave NotN for someone else too. As to other sorts of threads, there are still probably about 10 which are vaguely worth re-posting. (Perhaps I’ll do them in a blitz over the next day or two.) In some cases it’s difficult to know… for example, I quite liked vagsancho’s thread about choosing your Afterlife in one of the gamebooks, but I think some people saw that as part of the old forum being dragged off course, and of course vagsancho has never signed up here. Anyway, this has been quite a lot of effort so hopefully people are glad to see as much of it recovered as there is, and soon more than 4% of the visitors to the forum will post here.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on May 22, 2014 22:06:15 GMT
Tapatalk support has now been added for those who want to use a dedicated app to read and post to the forum.
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