Soul Tracker

I've added Gaetano Abbondanza's new gamebook, Soul Tracker : Day Of The Supernaturals to the downloads page. Due to the fact its rules are quite different to Fighting Fantasy I'm not sure yet whether I will attempt an online version.

Gaetano
Wed Sep 3 16:23:43 2008
General Chat

Hello Ulysses- yes, I actually wrote my gamebook on paper before typing it up. This is simply a matter of convenience- I'd do a lot of my writing out in public (bookstores, coffee shops, etc) and I find it easier to carry around a paper notebook than to always lug around my laptop. Although, to be honest, I was second-guessing this decision when I had to go back and actually type the thing out.

In regards to my gamebook, I knew right away that it might might not be compatible with an online translation on this site, due to the fact that it is so different. It really is designed to be read as a "paper" adventure, and I hope this doesn't stop anyone from reading it. Any and all comments are appreciated.

Haoie
Thu Sep 4 00:03:00 2008
Soul Tracker

Kudos on the new Soul gamebook. It's looking pretty complex so far, nothing like a regular FF entry as noted before. But from initial glances, it's very richly detailed and well narrated.

Juliu$ Thu Sep 4 04:36:32 2008 General Chat	Am I allowed to submit any home-written gamebooks to this website?
	Yes of course. I don't guarantee an online version, but I will put anything that is complete on the downloads page at least.

Josephkw
Sat Sep 6 23:00:19 2008
General Chat

I'm new to this site, but have enjoyed the FF series of books for years, so am thrilled to have chanced upon this online collection.

Which of the books/adventures are the most popular on this site--is there a "most played" or "most downloaded" list?

Most of all, I'd just like to say thanks to the many contributors to this project. I just played through "Rebels of the Dark Chasms" and that had such a professional feel to it with such perfect continuity and flow I was really drawn into the experience. Thanks again.

I haven't made any kind of popularity table for two reasons. Firstly, it's not much fun for whoever ends up at the bottom of it. Secondly, I suspect that enough individuals would feel compelled to manipulate the table to the advantage of their favourites to make the result meaningless.

I do have statistics for how many times the gamebooks are downloaded (when you have a website, you get this kind of information as part of the package). If you are really interested in this then email me and I will tell you but for the reasons above I'm reluctant to post it here.

Josephkw
Sun Sep 7 13:16:21 2008
General Chat

Thanks for the reply, and your rationale is sensible enough. With that in mind I'll forego my curiosity as to the popularity of the individual adventures and will simply play through them all and select my own favorites!

Thank you again for hosting this site and taking the time to convert the adventures into online versions.

Darkness
Mon Sep 8 11:02:26 2008
General Chat

Hellfire is a really challenging game that much I know. I am stuck on the part where you run into the burning lady in the passageway with the green flames. I threw holy water on her and even prayed and walked through whilst I died all those attempts. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I think making these games into online pbbg's would be great idea for which I hope to learn the codes to do so. Right now all I know is html, css and java and not sql and php. If you want to learn codes go to http://www.w3schools.com for free learning of computer codes.

Aren't these games online PBBGs already? They are obviously browser-based and they are persistent in as much as you can use bookmarks / favourites to save your current position.

Meneginas
Mon Sep 8 11:04:11 2008
Midnight Deep

Hi there,

First and foremost my congratulations on the great work done on this website.

Now to my question.

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Can you please offer any help as I am intrigued by the atmosphere of this book and I would hate having to leave it incompelte.
All the best
Meneginas

Persistant Browser Based Games
Mon Sep 8 11:35:20 2008
General Chat

Well, see these games don't upgrade really at all you go only so far as the majority of all pbbg games on the net improve as time progresses onwards into the adventure. There is a lot more player interaction and more choices and things at your disposal like characteristics, skills, powers, items, towns, people, quests, and etc you can choose. So, basically they might have multiple players or single players in a more comprehensive manner as opposed to this set format, but if you know the answer to the burning lady let me know okay?

duffmeister
Mon Sep 8 16:27:11 2008
Midnight Deep

Meneginas:

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Juliu$ Tue Sep 9 08:13:43 2008 General Chat	Well, Im currently working on my first gamebook and I'd like to know that upon completion, how to I...er, how do you put this...submit it to this website?
	You can use the 'contact' link.

Juliu$
Tue Sep 9 10:24:23 2008
Soul Tracker

Great job on Soul Tracker, Gaetono. Though I havent finished it, I quite enjoy its original concept.

Gaetano
Tue Sep 9 20:22:03 2008
Soul Tracker

Thanks!

duffmeister
Wed Sep 10 08:22:50 2008
General Chat

Good news, guys! CERN worked! They didn't make a Black Hole. The End of the World didn't happen, HURRAH!

Pity I slept through the experiment...

Jordan
Fri Sep 12 16:46:47 2008
General Chat

What is CERN, and what was the experimentt?

Ulysses Ai
Fri Sep 12 23:25:02 2008
General Chat

He's talking about the Large Hadron Collider which went online this week. This is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, and some people were afraid that it is so powerful it would create a mini black hole and the Earth would be sucked into it.

Particle accelerators are basically used to smash known particles together at high speeds (i.e. high energies) to try and generate unknown particles. In particular they are trying to find particles that are predicted to exist by theory, such as the elusive Higgs boson (a.k.a. the God Particle), which is theroised to give matter mass.

For more information check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

CERN is an acronym (in French?) for: European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

(P.S. Andy: The Hyperlink button didn't seem to work)

I have fixed the buttons now.

duffmeister
Sat Sep 13 08:48:38 2008
General Chat

Although actually, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) has done very little colliding so far, I believe. They're just sending one beam of protons (Tiny particles with a positive charge) around at 99.9% of the speed of light. In a few weaks, they will send a second beam to collide with it, basically smashing apart the protons to create conditions similar to those of the Big Bang.

The four main reasons are:
1: The Higgs Particle. If you look at a drop of water, it is made of molecules, which in turn are made of atoms. These are made of protons, neutrons and electrons, and the protons and neutrons are in turn made from quarks which are made of... well you get the idea. The Higgs is the 'Final' particle. It is not made of any other particle, and is the ultimate 'Building Block'.

2:Dark Matter, an inc=visible substance from which over 20%n of the universe is built. If its nature is as they suspect, then they may be able to finally make it visible for a few moments.

3: Antimatter. This annihilates all matter (Basically, everything you see) and itself, leaving pure energy. In theory, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should exist (ie: There should be neither, due to their annihilation of one another) So why does matter prevail? I'm unsure how exactly the LHC will answer this one, however.

4: To reveal the truth about gravity. Most forces are far stronger than puny gravity, so why is it so weak?

I suppose that this isn't really FF stuff, but it's interesting (Actually, a gamebook set around this wouldn't be bad...). Anyway, I also found http://www.bbc.co.uk/bigbang.

Curtis
Sun Sep 14 11:11:40 2008
Hellfire

I need help on Hellfire.

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Haoie
Sun Sep 14 20:42:01 2008
Hellfire

^I don't believe there's any way to get out of that. You'll need to take a different path in the room before it.

Curious
Thu Sep 18 01:52:53 2008
General Chat

I wonder if there is any project going on to play these games books on a nintendo ds, like the LONEWOLF books?

That would surley be amazing to be able to play these games off line, and carry them around in one`s pocket.

I have no such progamming skills, but would surley love to see such a project develop!

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