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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jun 18, 2013 4:36:38 GMT
Since I've set up this board, I'll go first.
I'm Alex, the editor of the Fighting Fantazine magazine. I've been a fan of Fighting Fantasy since 1987 and joined online fandom in 2007.
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Post by paltogue on Jun 18, 2013 14:02:05 GMT
Hey Alex, you should blitz all the regular sites (including the messed up Unofficial Forum) about this place and see if we can get everyone to relocate here (e.g. Hynreck has just given up on the UF, but does he know that you're working on an alternative?).
The site looks great by the way.
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Galactrix
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Posts: 6
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Galactrix on Jun 18, 2013 21:35:25 GMT
I'm Eddie, better known online as Galactrix. I'm a 19 year old studying Creative Writing at the University of Northampton. I'm a massive fan of the Fighting Fantasy series, as well as the Gamebook Adventures and Destiny Quest interactive gamebooks. I also greatly enjoy many fantasy and sci-fi franchises. I do have a blog where I play various gamebooks, which you can find more about on the blog section of this forum here.
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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 22:38:35 GMT
hello all! i'm Victor aka Sylas from the old forums. my new username is now Bloodbeast.
the unofficial forum got destroyed then i found out about this one so, here i am, turning to paragraph 1 again.
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Post by Yaztromo on Jun 19, 2013 8:45:49 GMT
I'm Yaztromo, better known as The Pastries Eater. In my Earth incarnation, I help the French speaking gamebooks web fandom since some years, and manage the Advanced Fighting Fantasy French version (DF-Jdr, for Défis Fantastiques - le Jeu de rôle), at Scriptarium, an editor dedicated to gamebooks settings & RPG taking place in these worlds (Titan, Magnamund...). That can be seen as something strange, but I'm a true connoisseur of Lone Wolf too (I know some Shadow Gates to visit his planet). And, of course, I'm a huge fan of Fighting Fantazine, that's why I'm here!
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Jonathan Green
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Posts: 49
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Jonathan Green on Jun 19, 2013 9:05:40 GMT
Hello
My name's Jonathan Green and I've been known to write the odd Fighting Fantasy adventure in the past. Currently writing the definitive history of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks.
You can find out more by following the links in my signature.
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Post by gaetano on Jun 19, 2013 16:41:45 GMT
I'm Gaetano. I've been a fan of gamebooks since the mid 1980's. I've written a variety of gamebooks on several fronts: Slaves of Rema for the Gamebook Adventures Line (with a sequal, Sultans of Rema, coming out soon); as well as a few horror and sci-fi titles for the online Fighting Fantasy Project (available to play for free at www.ffproject.com). I also recently completed a Western which will be featured in a future installment of Fighting Fantazine. I'm a librarian by profession and live with my wife in Southern California.
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Post by ezekiel on Jun 19, 2013 18:27:56 GMT
Hello all, My name's Matt Ward, i'm 33 and i've loved Fighting Fantasy ever since i first read Warlock back in the 80's. I'm currently writing a crazy CYOA book for adults and would love to find out if anyone thinks there is a market for it, it's a homage to FF (with 444 pages and a fairly decent "good king vs evil king" revenge story) crossed with my love of all things retro (with cartoons, toys and sweets mentioned everywhere), i am not a serious author though so it's main appeal will be the adult humour and the "things" you can get up to in the village, i won't say too much here as the preview got banned on Createspace and i only joined here yesterday! If anyone is interested look up "Le Shavon Samon" on Face book! (Please don't if your easily offended though!)
See you around here again soon
Matt
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jun 19, 2013 20:11:11 GMT
Welcome aboard everyone!
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brewin
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Posts: 5
Favourite Gamebook Series: Grailquest
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Post by brewin on Jun 20, 2013 8:05:08 GMT
Great site Alex: well done! Anyway, I'm Brewin(') otherwise known as Andrew Drage. I first discovered Warlock of Firetop Mountain in 1982 (when I was seven) and it changed my life ever after I'm an author/editor of a few titles, including editor for the first four Gamebook Adventures, and author of the eighth one: Infinite Universe. I also wrote Trial of the Battle God for last year's Windhammer competition, and with any luck will get another one done in time for this year (in between work on forthcoming Tin Man Games' titles and a few other projects). Thanks for having me!
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Post by slloyd14 on Jun 22, 2013 18:27:33 GMT
Hello all! Lovely to be here in such esteemed company. I'm Slloyd14 aka Stuart Lloyd, blogger at Lloyd of Gamebooks, writer of Ascent of Darkness in FF #11 and I'm currently writing a title for Tin Man Games (on 100000 words at the moment). Looking forward to talking with you all (again, in some cases).
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Post by paltogue on Jun 22, 2013 20:14:45 GMT
Been meaning to post, but am moving house at the minute, so things are a bit busy! Anyway, I'm Warren, long time FF fan (since the mid 1980s), contributor to various online FF forums and projects (especially Titannica) and Fighting Fantazine (including a solo adventure take on Steve Jackson's 'In Search of Mungies' Gold' and various articles on geography and culture on Titan - watch out for my analysis of the geography of Khare in issue 11). Great to be here.
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Post by The Gamekeeper on Jun 26, 2013 1:42:45 GMT
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fibire
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Posts: 1
Favourite Gamebook Series: Advanced Fighting Fantasy
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Post by fibire on Jul 13, 2013 22:35:38 GMT
Hi, I'm fibire online and Ian Brocklehurst offline. I read my first FF book back in the mid 80s and never forgot about them as I grew up. Mind you I never grew out of Star Wars, Doctor Who, 40K and all manner of SF/Fantasy related material either. Although LotR still leaves me cold and I don't think Lucas/Spielberg raped my childhood. Fighting Fantazine Issue 12 will have my first ever FF solo adventure - Starhunt: Void Slavers. Currently I live in Greece and TEFL.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Jul 18, 2013 21:40:56 GMT
Currently I live in Greece and TEFL. Hmmm, you're a teacher. So's Stuart and myself. Jon Green used to be one before becoming a full-time writer...
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Galactrix
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Posts: 6
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Galactrix on Jul 21, 2013 11:42:45 GMT
Teaching does appear to be a decent career choice for aspiring writers doesn't it? It's what my lecturers at Uni tell me is the wisest choice...
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Klea
Wanderer
Writing Lyssia Ulmer's marriage for Camp NaNoWriMo (based on King's Heir: Rise to the Throne)
Posts: 57
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy (Sorcery!)
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Post by Klea on Sept 29, 2013 19:31:22 GMT
Hi. I'm Klea, and I've been happily addicted to Fighting Fantasy ever since picking up Warlock of Firetop Mountain when it was first out.
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Sept 29, 2013 19:39:48 GMT
Hi. I'm Klea, and I've been happily addicted to Fighting Fantasy ever since picking up Warlock of Firetop Mountain when it was first out. Welcome, Klea!
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Post by a moderator on Sept 30, 2013 14:07:48 GMT
I'm Ed, author of the 'Everything I Really Need to Know...' column in the Fantazine, plus the mini-adventure in issue 9. I also have a blog where I play gamebooks and write about the experience.
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Post by paltogue on Sept 30, 2013 14:15:37 GMT
Good to see you here Ed. If you know of any way of contacting others from the Unofficial Forum who haven't made it over here yet (e.g. Hynreck), let them know.
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torallion
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Posts: 12
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by torallion on Oct 1, 2013 9:27:11 GMT
Hi all - I'm Paul and I'm a relapsed gamebookaholic. I have my own playthrough blog ( torallion.blogspot.co.uk) which has been lamentably slow this year owing to the combination of work commitments and a course that finishes in January, by when the pace should pick up again
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Post by hynreck on Oct 1, 2013 12:52:54 GMT
Hello all, I'm Hynreck (none of that Dominic Madness) from Montréal, Québec, Canada. So yes I live in an igloo and I'm surrounded by beavers, savages and maple syrup, in that order. To clarify, the savages are all beautiful naked women and we're snaking on mapled beavers. Does that make sense?
Anyway I'm 37, been a long-time fan of gamebooks, currently own all Fighting Fantasy, all Lone Wolf in french and buying the re-release in English, now from Mantikore, got a few other series in the mix, Sagas of the Demonspawn, Golden Dragon, Cretan Chronicles, Grail Quest, etc. Currently buying the Critical IF as they are released and planning on pledging for The Way of the Tiger. So, enthusiastic, I am.
Am planning to write a gamebook of my own one day as half of you, but that might be in the year 3000 so don't hold your breath. Am also helping in writing a game for a family member working at Ubisoft (but the game is his own pet project, so...) but life and children make me sleepy late at night so it's hard to do the work.
Also, it is true that I haven't been present very much at the unofficial forum before it closed down (sad), some of it was due to the change (and the fact that that change brought a drought of members), but lots of it was simply due to the fact that I was stuck neck deep in work. And since I mostly do my postings from work, there wasn't much of a choice for me but to cut back. So if the same thing happen here don't you all go worrying. It is not because I don't like you guys, it is just because a pointy-haired demon is breathing down my neck!
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Post by schlendrian on Oct 2, 2013 10:49:07 GMT
So, I've found my way towards here too. I'm Stefan, 22 years from Austria and read FF since my childhood, although my favourite gamebook series has always been Fabled Lands. I really wasn't much of a contributor in the old forum to be honest and probably won't be here, but I'm always interested in reading the often very thoughtful comments here.
That said, greetings to all you guys here!
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Draco Wolfsbane
Squire
Wyrd bi∂ ful aræd
Posts: 4
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by Draco Wolfsbane on Oct 13, 2013 11:54:41 GMT
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Oct 13, 2013 18:42:03 GMT
Welcome one and all, good to have you here!
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Post by deadshadowrunner on Nov 10, 2013 6:15:14 GMT
Hi,I'm deadshadowrunner,a huge fan of FF and gamebooks(but mainly FF)and would like to remain anonymous.I live in Singapore and am a recent fan of gamebooks but have amassed a reasonably large collection.I was a member of TUFFF with a different name but however that was closed by MasterChief.Luckily I found this forum after days of mourning*ahem*.
Anyway,glad to be part of this forum!
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Post by hynreck on Nov 11, 2013 19:10:30 GMT
I don't know if I can welcome you in any kind of official fashion, but welcome! I might understand your need for anonymity, but can you at least divulge your old TUFFF username?
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Post by paltogue on Nov 11, 2013 20:39:50 GMT
Yes, welcome indeed. Anonymity is understood, but yes, 'twould be nice to know your previous username. But don't feel you have to tell us!
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Post by deadshadowrunner on Nov 12, 2013 6:40:40 GMT
Well,I guess we could turn this into a riddle,eh?
My first is in doom but not i-
Ah,forget it!How about a guessing game?The first to get it right wins a prize!(a word of congratulations)
Clue 1:My previous name also starts with 'd'
Clue 2:The third letter of my previous name is also 'a'
Clue 3:My previous name also contains the letter 'r'
Clue 4:My previous name also contains the letter 'e'
Final Clue:There is a repeated letter in my previous name
There!That should do it.Happy puzzling!
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Nov 12, 2013 12:13:38 GMT
Well,I guess we could turn this into a riddle,eh? My first is in doom but not i- Ah,forget it!How about a guessing game?The first to get it right wins a prize!(a word of congratulations) Clue 1:My previous name also starts with 'd' Clue 2:The third letter of my previous name is also 'a' Clue 3:My previous name also contains the letter 'r' Clue 4:My previous name also contains the letter 'e' Final Clue:There is a repeated letter in my previous name There!That should do it.Happy puzzling! d........? + --a.....? + ?...r...? + ?...e...? + 2 x ?# = dwarfdeYes?
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