The interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, in which viewers are asked to make choices that determine the direction of the branching storyline, is now available to view on Netflix. Set in 1984, Bandersnatch follows young programmer Stefan Butler as he adapts the adventure gamebook Bandersnatch into a video game for the company Tuckersoft. Written by […]
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Tower Behind the Moon is a 400,000-word epic fantasy novel by Kyle Marquis, author of Empyrean and Silverworld. An elaborate interactive fantasy featuring wizards and monsters, gods and angels, Tower Behind the Moon incorporates a fresh perspective within a well-established setting, incorporating your own apprentice and mentor in the storyline – both reflections of your
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Our round-up of interactive adventures is back for a pre-Xmas update. This month we have some new digital, audio and print products, an updated gamebook and new versions of a popular mobile game. Bury me, my Love Bury me, my Love is coming to Nintendo Switch and Steam on January 10th/11th. Inspired by real
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Tainted Grail is a solo or cooperative survival exploration board game for 1-4 players from Awaken Realms, set in a dark universe that blends Arthurian legends and Celtic mythology. Players control one of the characters – accidental heroes who need to fight for their lives after stronger and wiser champions have failed. Chased by the
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Choice of Games has released another interesting adventure in their ongoing series of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games. Weyrwood is a 174,000 word interactive fantasy novel by Isabella Shaw. Set in a Regency England-period magical world, Weyrwood contains supernatural creatures, social rules, customs, and the deeply complex mysteries of the forest. Advance in Society and bargain with
Intudia is a new entertainment platform for interactive audiobooks and eBooks. Created by childhood friends Nicki Blådal (Manager of development and administration, and co-founder of a Danish software development company) and Nicolai Vedel Kellberg (Lead author, with 15 years of experience with interactive storytelling, and a master’s degree in educational psychology), Intudia believes that being
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Stronghold: A Hero’s Fate, the latest adventure from Choice of Games, is a 250,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Amy Griswold and Jo Graham, where you must manage personalities, relationships, conflict, threats, and the ongoing realities of life in a small town. Defend your stronghold from invading monsters and lead your people to glory! Rule your
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Van Ryder Games, publishers of the Graphic Novel Adventures series, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for their first ever cooperative Graphic Novel Adventures game, The Crusoe Crew. In The Crusoe Crew, you’ll work together with other players (or play solo) to explore islands, solve puzzles, and find rubies, pearls and statuettes that will allow you
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Independent French game studio Nova-box has released their interactive graphic novel Seers Isle. A narrative game consisting of eight endings and approximately 7500 lines of text and dialogue, Seers Isle is set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters. “The island… It was
Officina Meningi’s The Necronomicon Gamebook: Dagon is a short, illustrated adventure based on a faithful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu short novels Dagon, The Hound and The Festival (plus extracts from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath). These stories have been adapted with the utmost fidelity to the original text, in the style of the Master
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Sentient Play is teaming up with Fighting Fantasy co-founder Ian Livingstone and an amazing collection of writers, animators, developers, cartographers and artists (including Iain McCaig), to create a new type of computer RPG, where interactive fiction and roleplaying mechanics merge to produce a dynamic single-player fantasy videogame with a classic style and feel. Incorporating elements
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Now seeking funding via Kickstarter, Into the Dungeon is an illustrated choose-your-own-path gamebook with hundreds of different paths through the story. To be published as an A5 softcover with a matt-laminated cover, Into the Dungeon will feature 100+ pages, with black & white illustrations of monsters, dark passageways, traps, characters, loot and more, as well
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This month’s round-up includes another wide selection of interactive products that are sure to be of great interest, including: immersive audio adventures; text-based digital games; micro-adventures for Kindle; two computer RPGs; and new enhanced print editions of a highly recommended gamebook, previously reviewed on GBN. Malice From the Middle Vale – Colour Editions New full-colour
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Jonathan Green has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the latest gamebook in his ACE Gamebooks series. Beowulf Beastslayer is a brand new take on the Anglo-Saxon epic, re-imagining the events described in the poem as an interactive gamebook. Will you follow the course of events as laid down by the scops and skalds of old,
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