Do you expect shuffled sections?

[aggsol]

The gamebook "Way of the Quail" does not shuffle the sections, so the sections are as close as close in time they were written. this has the effect that you don't have to flip so many pages. But on the other hand there is the danger to spoiler the readers accidentally when they are scanning the pages. I read some blog posts how other authors shuffle the section some are weirdly elaborate. I will use my own tool for that but I wonder how you like shuffled sections and how shuffle them.

[philsadler]

I always shuffle (just by hand and eye). I even go so far as trying to 'hide' very important sections.

[kieran]

I always use the Advelh program to be honest - does all that for you.

[aggsol]

Jul 10, 2018 7:43:32 GMT kieran said:

I always use the Advelh program to be honest - does all that for you.

hm. the website is dead an most web search hits are French. Maybe I will test it for my next adventure.

[kieran]

Jul 10, 2018 10:20:33 GMT aggsol said:

Jul 10, 2018 7:43:32 GMT kieran said:

I always use the Advelh program to be honest - does all that for you.

hm. the website is dead an most web search hits are French. Maybe I will test it for my next adventure.

Yeah the guy who developed it is French, didn't know his website had died but it's been a few years since I've done any gamebooks.

[slloyd14]

In case the website died, I stored the files here:

drive.google.com/open?id=1r5WJqGAGXpz1ezStnyN1ZHMdg-AA6U8d

Also, you could try GBAT - free for 100 section gamebooks. ADVELH is the best free option in my opinion.


www.crumblyheadgames.co.uk/the-gamebook-authoring-tool/

[aggsol]

Jul 12, 2018 21:26:03 GMT slloyd14 said:

In case the website died, I stored the files here:

drive.google.com/open?id=1r5WJqGAGXpz1ezStnyN1ZHMdg-AA6U8d

Also, you could try GBAT - free for 100 section gamebooks. ADVELH is the best free option in my opinion.


www.crumblyheadgames.co.uk/the-gamebook-authoring-tool/

Thank you for the links. GBAT looks like a nice tool. Too bad I don't have a Windows PC. For my first adventure I used a Asciidoc text file with my own tooling. The main reason was that I wanted easy PDF generation. In the end I generate the PDF from a HTML in Calibre.  Asciidcotor creathe very usable HTML file from Asciidoc. The HTML in a browser and the automatic generated graph were really helpful for testing flow and order of events while writing sections. I may try the combination again...