Hi james. New islands get added when an author takes the time to write one, submit it to the site. Unfortunately, the momentum for this project has ran out and I don't think therer has been an addition for many years, which is reflected in this thread. That said, I do have a memory of reading an adventure set on an island involving seeking out a Roc's egg. I believe I read it because the author asked for some feedback, but I don't recall anything happening after that. Perhaps your interest will prompt them to provide what was done at least for the downloads page.
Voting has now opened for the Lindenbaum competition. You can find the 9 entries in the below link, both individually and in a zip file. The post is here:
Hello all! Submissions have now closed for the 2023/2024 Lindenbaum competition. I am excited to say that we have 8 entries for this year's competition. The entries will be made available on the 1st March when voting opens. Votes need to be sent to lindenbaumprize@gmail.com. Each voter must submit 3 books. If they submit less than 3, their votes won't count. If they submit more than 3, the first 3 will count. Voting will close at 5pm GMT on the 30th April 2024.
OK, so it seems that, right now, for chrome and edge, the webpage keeps getting redirected to Allen & Cook Incorporated, which is an accounting firm in California. It's weird, because the URL still says www.ffproject.com. I tried clearing my DNS cache, but the problem persists.
Firefox logs onto this site just fine.
It could just be a problem on my end, but I thought I'd pipe up, just in case this site is being hijacked or something. Feel free to delete this post if it is not a problem for anybody else (i.e. if the traffic volume has not decreased).
I've tried it with Edge and all seems well at the moment. I notice that this firm uses the same hosts as this site, so my guess would be that the problem is at their end and hopefully temporary.
cheers for the feedback buddy. It's honestly like, twenty years since I wrote this so I am really not sure how much coherent feedback I can give. The core idea behind it though was the idea of playing a game as one of those random thugs or theives you kill without thinking about in most game books/fantasy games, and making them more real people - like, Jak and Marts are total nightmare horrorshows, but I still have deep affection for them even after all these years. I've known a lot of lost but not hopeless people like these guys over the years.
I tried to send out the Xmas and new year greetings earlier, but couldn't access the webpage due to website certification issues. Any idea what happened?
@YARD just in regards to your comments, as Kieran mentioned this story is only 50 paragraphs and it is difficult to put such a high level of backstory and detail into such a short game book. Comparing it to a visual media, a full 400 paragraph game book can be compared to movie, while a 50 paragraph game book is more akin to a 15 minute short. It’s far more difficult to introduce the same amount of depth and detail- I can vouch as even having written a 100 paragraph game book I felt quite restricted. The story is obviously based of a Christmas Carol, and this is satisfactory in my opinion in setting up a framework of the plot. I was actually not familiar with any of the FF references and was perfectly fine following along so I would have to disagree with you mentioning that this was fundamental to understanding this gamebook story. The one item that confused me originally was the kidnapping of the princess, but this is explained separately in a later paragraph that you may encounter. Personally I felt that it was enough as a placeholder to demonstrate that the protagonist participated in a “terrible act” befitting of his personality. Even if the kidnapping wasn’t elaborated on I feel I would have been fine, as it is enough to assume that it was a traumatic event orchestrated by the Baron, and a perfect example of his heartless behavior.
I will whole heartedly agree that Kieran has greatly improved, and has some of the most humorous and entertaining writing on the site, and in addition Melchion is an excellent story too.