Oh, and in relation to 'Cretan Chronicles' already having used the ancient greece setting, to be strictly accurate, my adventure is actually set in Mycenaean Greece, the period in which most greek myths occur, but not actually ancient greece as it is normally seen.

ffproject
Mon Dec 8 18:02:10 2008
News

Updates

Hamza Moiz, aka Kekataag has sent in his gamebook Quest For The Ebony Wand, and I have put it on the downloads page. There is also an updated, and apparently debugged, version of Stuart Lloyd's Shadowcaster.

On an unrelated note, Oscar Monteiro has made an online version of Victor Cheng's Kill The Beast. It can be found here : http://members.lycos.co.uk/avfan/.

Wayne Densley
Tue Dec 9 13:10:27 2008
Windhammer Competition

Voting has now finished for the 2008 Windhammer Prize. All
participants will be notified of the results by email on the 15th of
December with public notification being made on the same day at the
Windhammer Prize webpage at
http://www.arborell.com/windhammer_prize.html , the news page at the
Chronicles of Arborell, and at the Arborellium forum.

All entries remain available for download until the 15th of December
and can be accessed at
http://www.arborell.com/windhammer_prize_entries.html

Regards
Wayne Densley
http://www.arborell.com/

Kee Thu Dec 11 11:31:04 2008 General Chat	I've already finished my gamebook and wish to submit it to this site so can I use like...Yahoo instead of Outlook since I have no idea how to use it and I don't have a Send button.
	If I understand you correctly, you are talking about not being able to use the contact link because you only have web-based email. You can of course send your gamebook in using Yahoo. I'd ideally like to avoid posting the email address directly because I have enough trouble with spam as it is - but if you right click on the contact link and select properties, all should be made clear.

Kee
Fri Dec 12 11:36:10 2008
Windhammer Competition

Omg, An Orc's Day is hilarious. I'm still working on it, but I nearly died laughing reading the Rules section. Its not a gamebook I'd play seriously, more like one I'd play for fun the thick humor completely floats my boat.

Kee
Sat Dec 13 07:31:27 2008
General Chat

I've sent my gamebook....FYI

ffproject
Sat Dec 13 11:40:18 2008
News

Updates

Two more additions to the downloads page. Ramsay Duff's notorious Rise Of Skarlos (chapters one and two) and also Welcome To Blackheart Asylum by Julius Lee (who is Kee, presumably).

Kekataag Sat Dec 13 18:53:23 2008 General Chat	So in Welcome to Blackheart Asylum you play a woman, right?
	Or a man who can pass for one.

Kee
Sun Dec 14 06:40:55 2008
General Chat

@Kekataag, actually I assumed that most players would be male so I made it a female identity as a joke =)

33rdegree
Mon Dec 15 02:37:44 2008
General Chat

Hey fellow book gamers,

Good site. I wish there were more sites dedicated to adventure games like this. Or are there? Does anyone know where I could find similar games?

Just a suggestion to all you writers; I think pictures to go with every scrip would be awesome. I know that your supposed to use you imagination, but to have graphic pictures to go along, I think, would make it even better.

Thank you for all your hard work writers.

33rdegree

Well, this site has a links page at the top of which is a list of similar sites. It's not a long list, but if you are content with hyperlinked gamebooks or even plain text ones there are plenty more links to sites containing these.

Regarding illustrations - yes it would be nice to have more. But finding pictures to match the text is very time consuming - I got fed up of that activity quite quickly. The ideal would be contributions from amateur artists, but I think it needs to be of a comparable standard to the artwork in the published FF gamebooks in order to live up to the quality of the writing. In any case, only one artist in over five years has actually sent me anything. Another possibility would be authors themselves collecting together some artwork and writing their stories around it - but that's out of my hands.

Kee Mon Dec 15 03:29:08 2008 General Chat	Speaking of graphic pictures, I'd be happy to draw and ink some and scan them for anybody who wants them for their gamebook. You'll need to gimme the description of the pic and ur email for me to send it to you though.
	If you can produce decent artwork (as mentioned above, this would mean on a par with the published gamebooks in terms of quality, but could be much less complex), then I could definitely make use of it here. If so, I would recommend that you choose one of the shorter gamebooks and draw whatever scenes from it inspire you most.

Kee Mon Dec 15 12:23:57 2008 General Chat	Btw, will 'Quest for the Ebony Wand' be made into an online version?
	I'll probably do the Victor Cheng gamebooks next, then there's likely to be some more from Ulysses Ai. I'm not thinking beyond that at the moment.

Kekataag
Mon Dec 15 18:34:34 2008
General Chat

So, what do you guys think of Quest for the Ebony Wand so far? I know it's horribly written and extremely disjointed (I put very little effort into it), but I just wanted to see what other people's opinions were.

Kee
Tue Dec 16 01:05:32 2008
General Chat

Is Quest of the Ebony Wand ur first gamebook, Kekataag?

Ulysses Ai
Tue Dec 16 03:26:27 2008
General Chat

Kekataag:

I had a read through your gamebook, and:

SPOILER

END SPOILER

Hope that is helpful, and not offensive.
Feel free to offer a counter-review :)

Kekataag
Tue Dec 16 12:14:23 2008
General Chat

Actually this is probably my fourth and fifth finished gamebook. Regarding the LUCK tests, I'm sure that there were a large number of boss fights you had to win with almost every one of them awarding the player with LUCK points. Also, I mentioned that the book used the series' original rules (meaning the first few books). That includes the rule about the Potion of Stamina, Fortune and Skill you can get at the beginning of the early books. Other than that, I agree with all of your comments. The part with the merchant was especially badly written! Anyway, thanks for the comments.

Kekataag
Tue Dec 16 15:55:33 2008
General Chat

I'm currently working on a rewrite. When I'm finished (which will probably be in a couple of days' time), I'll send it in.

Kekataag
Tue Dec 16 16:21:25 2008
General Chat

Actually Kee, I played through the book, and found that you can win it with a total of about 5 LUCK tests. Also, there are many, many ways of restoring LUCK. I've just finished the rewrite, and am going to send it in.

duffmeister
Tue Dec 16 19:18:10 2008
General Chat

How's 'Rise of Skarlos'? I tried to remove the flaws which 'The Wrath of Cain' had (ie: Avoiding linearity and super tough villains) from it. Does it hold together well?

Kee
Wed Dec 17 09:41:06 2008
General Chat

Um...Kekataag, are you sure that last comment was directed to me or Ulysses?

Anyways, any comments on my gamebook?

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