Jordan Sat Sep 10 13:42:40 2011 General Chat	Hey, all. Hope everyone's well. I was curious about Ulysses's gamebooks. Planet of the spiders, and Golden Crate aren't on the gamebooks page anymore, or maybe I'm overlooking them. At any rate, my screen reader says they're not there. *Grins. Let me know what's up. Maybe they're being editted or whatever. Thanks.
	They are definitely there.

Jason SW
Mon Sep 12 00:56:50 2011
Waiting For The Light

Hi,

I really enjoy all of the gamebooks on this site. One of my newest favorites is Waiting for the Light. I especially love the game show part. It's pretty funny. Great job, everybody! I really hope that more gamebooks can be added to the site as fully playable, as that's the easiest way for me to play them. I am also visually impaired, and I really enjoy being able to play them right on the site.

Thanks!

Wayne Densley
Thu Sep 15 01:32:01 2011
Windhammer Competition

I would like to announce that all entries in the 2011 Windhammer Prize for Short Gamebook Fiction are now available for download and consideration. Voting has commenced and will continue until the 30th of October with the winners being announced on the 7th of November.

This year has seen eight entries accepted and they have proven to be an exciting selection of genres and writing styles. If you like fantasy, science fiction or perhaps a more contemporary story, seasoned with humour, danger and perhaps a small measure of dystopia then it can be found within these gamebooks. Well done to all who have participated.

All entries can be found at the Windhammer Prize webpage at http://www.arborell.com/windhammer_prize_2011.html as well as voting guidelines and prize information.

May Glory and Renown follow all who have entered.

Regards
Wayne Densley
Chronicles of Arborell
http://www.arborell.com/

Robert Douglas
Fri Sep 16 15:29:54 2011
General Chat

I don't know if it's worth my time posting any more gamebooks on the net. I've just sent Jamie (Official FF site) a mail, explaining how annoying it is having to spend £100 or more just to install latest version of Word. I wrote both my gamebooks using Wordperfect, which could easily be copied on to my trial version of Word. However, this version ran out months ago; I can't edit documents, only open and save, etc.

I've just tried sending Jamie POP and SS under the format described above. However, for some reason, his software can't open them.

I'm also concerned about my downloaded adventures on this site. Has anybody experienced difficulty when trying to open these?

Writing is the only thing I'm good at. It's bad enough I live in country that doesn't encourage potential, and frowns on those blowing their own trumpet (we've been taught that's a bad thing). Just for once, it would be nice to have something go right, smoothly - without constant obstacles being thrown up. It all makes me so low.

Even with a relatively old version of Word (2000), I wasn't able to read them. Somehow, I converted them into Word format. It is the converted versions that are on the downloads page, so hopefully nobody has had any difficulty opening them.

If you don't want to pay for Word, you could try Open Office (http://openoffice.org).

ffproject
Fri Sep 16 17:14:20 2011
News

From The Shadows

Another addition to the downloads page. This gamebook is unusual in that it does not have a single author, but is a collaboration. Contributors are listed as "Sylas, Cobb Webb, Al sander, Khaxzan, Odo_ital, Archmage". It is edited by Victor Cheng (author of In The Footsteps Of A Hero).

SCC
Sat Sep 17 03:26:00 2011
General Chat

Robert, are you Australian? Sounds familiar...

Kieran
Sat Sep 17 14:24:56 2011
A Midwinter Carol

Hi Haoie, glad you liked Midwinter Carol. I had to get quite creative with the baron's fate in Deathmoor and make it so he was only believed dead.

Robert Douglas
Sun Sep 18 15:34:24 2011
General Chat

@ SCC,

Hi, no I'm not. I'm from England, Britain. I'm not really a people person, nor really sociable face to face. Been let down too many times by all the two-faced attitude and backstabbing. If it was practical for me to become a hermit, I would.

Books, writing, nature, and games have become my life. For me, three good things about Britain: 1) the countryside (nature), 2) influence on the arts over the last fifty years, 3) damn good selection of comedy since 1960's.

For me, all the above are worthy of time and energy. I pick up the most interesting of stories - there was an aristocrat who couldn't stand being spoken to, even by his servants. If they encountered each other, he stood to one side, while they had to ignore him completely!

Yeah, I think I know where he's coming from....

john
Mon Sep 19 12:21:30 2011
General Chat

I've just come on and saw the posts on word compatability issues. As far as opening and/or converting word documents goes, you may want to install the microsoft compatability pack, (run a search for it on www.microsoft.com) or you could install the free document converter from www.nchsoftware.com.

Robert Douglas
Sat Sep 24 10:30:23 2011
General Chat

Hi, thanks for all the advice. I've downloaded the Open Office suite. However, when saving a file, what should I save it as? .PDF doesn't come up in the drop-down menu - although there's a dozen other file types to select from. Open Office is '.ODF (or something like that), so would that be okay?

Personally, I would choose "Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc)", I think that's probably the most widely understood format you have on offer. RTF is another good one. Currently I wouldn't use the Open Office format for anything that I wanted to distribute.

As for .PDF, the orthodox way is to buy the software from Adobe. As this costs more than you didn't want to spend on Word, that's not really an option. However, if you search online for free PDF creation software you should be able to find something usable if necessary.

ffproject
Sun Sep 25 19:15:02 2011
News

Legacy Of Enoch

The downloads page now includes this Elizabethan adventure by Ramsay Duff. It will apparently be the last he writes for some time.

Hero of Chaching
Mon Sep 26 21:29:47 2011
The Dead World

Hi Ulysses,

Just finished 'The Dead World'; hilarious ending. Well done as always. Not sure which of the WWGB series is my favourite...probably Golden Crate. Or Hypertrout. Hard to say.

I have two (related) questions. I'm wondering if you plan on releasing another story in the WWGB series (would love to finally meet Gary Fishbone!), and when that might happen?

Thanks,

HoC

Ulysses
Tue Sep 27 03:01:32 2011
The Dead World

@ HoC

Episode 7: Return to G15-275 has been in development for many months now. It is the longest book in the series at 600 references. I have almost completed the first draft. After that I need to rewrite some sequences, check everything for errors, have somebody review it, then submit it to this site. The webmaster will then decide if he likes it and if he wants to make an online version that will take some time.
Posting about the book previously I mentioned it would probably be released early next year. They may still happen although I have been busy with work and study and several of the 10,000 other things I do, and so haven't worked on the book for a few months now. I will hopefully be able to get back to it soon.
An encounter with Gary Fishbone has been floating around in my mind, so it probably will happen, but not sure when or how or what will happen yet.

Hero of Chaching
Tue Sep 27 16:41:19 2011
The Dead World

@Ulysses

Awesome. Can't wait!

Thanks for replying.

HoC

asgardian
Sat Oct 15 00:10:55 2011
Windhammer Competition

Anyone reading the Windhammer entries this year? A Strange Week for King Melchion the Despicable is quite funny. I think Gem Runner is the best - very much in keeping with Deathtrap Dungeon.

Wayne Densley
Mon Oct 17 10:12:00 2011
Windhammer Competition

2011 Windhammer Prize Voting Update

Hi all,

This is a short reminder to everyone interested in participating in the voting phase of the 2011 Windhammer Prize that voting concludes on the 30th of October. If you are interested in placing votes for this year's competition there are now only two weeks remaining. Votes can be posted at the Windhammer Prize webpage at

http://www.arborell.com/windhammer_prize_2011.html

If you are interested in providing feedback to the authors of this year's competition entries all comments can be forwarded through

feedback@arborell.com

As per the competition timetable all winners will be announced on the 7th of November. May Glory and Renown follow all who have entered.

Regards
Wayne Densley
Chronicles of Arborell
http://www.arborell.com/

ffproject
Tue Oct 25 18:28:34 2011
Tomb Of The Ancients

Tomb Of The Ancients

It's been a while, but now there is another gamebook to play. This one is written by Stuart Lloyd. Another by the same author will follow reasonably soon.

So after five years, you tell your parents that you are leaving to be an adventurer and have a better life. Your mother is distraught, but your father barely bats an eyelid. You tell him that you are going to seek the medallion of his ancestors. At the mention of it, he becomes livid "Listen you worm! If you go looking for that, you'd better never come back, because I swear I will kill you!"

Haoie
Thu Oct 27 19:46:26 2011
Tomb Of The Ancients

Sweet, a new story!

Ibrahim
Tue Nov 1 02:50:50 2011
Tomb Of The Ancients

Come on, I finished tomb of the ancients in about 5 minutes and that was on my first attempt. I appreciate one is busy, however as a fan of FF, can we please have some more suffisticated or at least longer books like Soul Tracker, Outsider etc? I love this website dont get me wrong, but of late the games being posted are short and appear to be getting shorter and longer apart.

Robert Douglas
Tue Nov 1 14:21:25 2011
Garden Of Bones

Hi,

Just had a quick go at Garden of Bones. Didn't take long for me to get killed! Great idea, well written.

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