I also downloaded them, and spent an incredibly enjoyable month or so scouring every page. I think they are the absolute high-water-mark of the genre, together with classics such as Creature of Chaos and the Sourcery! series.

Ulysses
Thu May 19 23:12:54 2011
General Chat

I spent all yesterday trying to remember the name of that site. All I could come up with was dog-something.

Haoie
Thu May 19 20:57:21 2011
General Chat

I managed to get the PDF files of Blood Sword off the old Home of the Underdogs site before it went down for good. Who remembers it?

Aiken
Fri May 13 12:47:11 2011
General Chat

@Haoie - good to see I'm not alone in admiring these works. I'm not sure whether Dragon Warriors was published before or after the first book, but they have a lot in common with it.

Haoie
Thu May 12 20:59:24 2011
General Chat

Wow, glad to see someone mention Blood Sword! Best gamebooks I've encounted ever. If I'm not mistaken, they're a spinoff from Dragon Warrior?

Ulysses
Tue May 10 23:49:55 2011
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@John:

I never decided exactly, but just a few hundred years. In The Golden Crate it gives some dates in terms of time since humans began to explore space. I recall that as being about 200 years after exploration. However 'Exploration' refers to manned spaceships flying outside our solar-system; so we aren't there yet.

john
Tue May 10 13:55:43 2011
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Ulysses, sorry if this has been said in the gamebooks, but how far into the future is the WWGB series set?

Aiken
Tue May 10 11:05:11 2011
General Chat

@The Slayer

Also the Bloodsword series by the same people who wrote Fabled Lands ( Oliver Johnson and Dave Morris) is very RPG like in strucuture- with four classes, multiple levels, and the ability to acculate items, abilities, allies, foes and entire histories across five books. They are truly epic and IMHO perhaps the best gamebook series ever written. If anyone is interested they're called:

The Battlepits of Krath
The Kingdom of Wyrd
The Demon's Claw
Doomwalk
The walls of Spyte

Their stand-out qualities are fabulous writing, a wry sense of humour, a very non-linear structure that rewards multiple paths with different narratives (much like Ulysses' "the Diamond Key"), a wonderful sense of imagination, intricate game-play (supporting multiple players at once if wanted) with a well-developed magic system and interesting classes with different abilities.

The main weakness they have is that they are prone to min-maxing and the combat is slightly broken if you want to abuse it.

Any gamebook fan should definitely check them out.

james
Sun May 8 20:30:09 2011
General Chat

@ The slayer
There are the fabled lands series

Ulysses
Thu May 5 04:22:11 2011
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@John:
You don't need to be so apprehensive. This adventure is set in a place you can explore day after day so there are lots of conditional options; e.g. the reference you read the first time you go to an area is different the subsequent times you visit. That's why there are so many codewords. The facility is also quite large.
Although there are many steps to be taken to achieve success, it has been designed so that if you explore cautiously, you will discover all you need to do and then can perform the tasks.
I'm writing the final encounter now, then I will have to check everything. Can't give a firm estimate of the time.

john
Wed May 4 13:19:22 2011
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Ulysses, I just look at your earlier post again. I'll have to admit to being a little doutful of my chances of finishing this one without the download. I can't believe you managed to type out (what was it) 115582 words... wow! Any ideas as to how much more work you've got to do, and congratulations!

Ulysses
Wed May 4 11:38:16 2011
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Presentation is always important :P

john
Wed May 4 11:11:06 2011
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I'm frankly amazed. I'd never be able to come up with all that on my own. Are haircuts important?

Ulysses
Wed May 4 05:01:12 2011
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Stats about Episode 7 of the WWGB series (as of today):

References: 550
Pages: 284
Total number of words: 115582
Average words per reference: 210
Codewords: 37
Number of times the word "bot" appears: 489
Number of attractive women: 1
Number of attractive fermales: 27
Number of available haircuts: 3
Number of octopusses: 2

Coming soon....but not too soon.

Wayne Densley
Mon May 2 23:18:30 2011
Windhammer Competition

Hi all,

For all authors who may be considering submitting an entry in the 2011 Windhammer Prize for Short Gamebook Fiction this is a reminder that there are now only three months remaining until the commencement of the submission phase
of this year's contest.

All information, including entry guidelines, timetable and prize details, can be found at the Windhammer Prize webpage at
http://www.arborell.com/windhammer_prize_2011.html

May Glory and Renown follow all who enter.

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

john
Mon May 2 15:48:06 2011
The Hypertrout

Ah, thanks. I had imagened them less than an inch on a side.

Ulysses
Mon May 2 14:44:06 2011
The Hypertrout

@John:

I imagined them as smaller than palm-size, about the same as a stack of square post-it notes that have been half used. However, in the game the restriction on items is based purely on the number of items carried, not their size. From recollection your pockets can only hold 3 items, but you have the opportunity to carry others in your hands. Regardless, if you follow the correct path (I just replayed the book a few minutes ago) you never encounter the pocket-limit. There are only two vital items, and another item which makes life easier. Any other items are either small (security cards), or carried in your hands (swords, fish heads).

john
Mon May 2 13:55:19 2011
The Hypertrout

Ulysses, how large are those tiles supposed to be? I was wondering if a person (although its not critical) would be able to carry more than one tile in a pocket?

Ulysses
Mon May 2 13:50:05 2011
The Hypertrout

@Gamebook freak:

You are able to carry as many items as are needed to complete the book. Sounds like you are trying to carry more than you need.

gamebook freak
Mon May 2 13:02:17 2011
The Hypertrout

could you please expand the range of opjects that you can cari?

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