Just finished playing 'A Midwinter's carol'. An excellent idea brilliantly implemented, and with a sense of festive cheer. Nice one Kieran.
On another note, i'm not sure whethis will be the last post of the decade. Happy new year all! I hope you all go forward to the next decade with collosal bonuses to your skill stamina and luck in the adventure of '2010-2019'
Hi, Firstly, very nice site you have here! I like the look of the online gamebooks, I will have a go when I get time, possibly later on tonight even, and I'll give some feedback on here. I've just a couple of questions: 1) I'd like to post up an adventure or two of my own, once you approve it, but with advanced rules eg spells, an extra characteristic like Honour etc - is this okay? Even if you dont want to put extra stuff on the Rules section here, how about if I include them in the preamble text at the start? (btw some are already on the official FF forum, in the AFF section, so if you're a member you can view 'em right now) If the player has an offline pen & paper adventure sheet, then all they need is the online die roller. 2) Can I put links in the text of them? 3) I can draw, so may send you some art? If you like it, I could do brief illustratrions for other online adventures here, or anything you'd really like a visual rep for, just let me know and it should be fine. Cheers!
CC
Thank you for the compliment, I'm glad you like the site.
As for your questions :
1) Submissions are covered in the Frequently Asked Questions section. The rules page isn't intended to be exhaustive, it's just a rough guide to the standard FF rules and how they are used by the site - I certainly don't update it to include every new rule anybody thinks of. Obviously in your gamebooks you can have whatever rules you like. I don't know what you mean by your last sentence.
2) Links to what? Anyway, I see no problem unless you are linking to something illegal.
3) If your work is of a comparable standard to that of the published gamebooks, then that would be great.
It must be said though that, firstly, these maps contain massive spoilers so only look at them if you really want to. And secondly, due to various changes I made to the books over the years, neither map is 100% accurate anymore, more like 95% or something if I'm being pedantic.
Oh well, they're still a small Christmas present to the FF community - happy Xmas everyone :-)
The following gamebooks have been added to the downloads page : To Catch A Thief and A Midwinter Carol by Kieran Coghlan (author of Hunger Of The Wolf). Phobia by Zachary Carango. Contractual Obligation by Ulysses Ai.
Also, Phil Sadler's maps of Hellfire and Riders Of The Storm can now be downloaded. Phil has suggested that these may be of particular interest to other gamebook designers.
Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year to all. Here's to 2010 being another year that continues the resurgence of interactive fiction- in print, online, as download enabled files, and in formats yet to be invented. It's an exciting time.
Indeed- Yuletide greetings to all- and especial thanks to all of the authors whose work and imagination gave us all some much needed extra skill, luck and stamina in that difficult adventure: 2009!
I found a bug in Hunger of the Wolf. On reference 369 (and perhaps elsewhere)
SPOILER
I defeated the rider with an instant death (using the fangthane sword) and the text said INSTANT DEATH and gave the rider's stats (skill 9 stamina 0) and didn't give me an option to continue
I assume you are reaching the ending where you are put in a cell and Pomplompotom's father kills you in a fit of grief. If so, you are missing something. You need to: 1. Retain 2 objects from eariler in the adventure 2. Open the Golden Crate before you get back to Amorphonon 12 3. Use what's inside carefully (or recklessly from another perspective) 3. Apply what you've learnt.