5e Solo Gamebooks has now released Tyrant of Zhentil Keep, its second solo adventure for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. Written by Paul Bimler, this 160+ page adventure is designed for one 3rd-level Player Character of any race or class, without a DM. Tyrant of Zhentil Keep continues the narrative of The Death Knight’s Squire […]
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Tin Man Games are currently developing Fighting Fantasy Classics, a digital library app for iOS, Android, PC and Mac, that will collect many of the gamebooks from the ever-popular Fighting Fantasy series. The original adventures, written and presented by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, are being converted to a digital gamebook format. Combat and skill
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This is the first post in a new feature series on GBN celebrating some of the many great artists working within interactive fiction. In each ARTIST SHOWCASE we intend to show and discuss individual techniques, workflows and visual styles, often peering behind the scenes to witness and understand all of the craft, technical skill and
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The CORE, a private research station, 2352. Celebrity scientist Jonathan Campbell awakens to this fallen utopia and must search for his loved ones – with the help of L, a mysterious AI companion. The Mind’s Eclipse is a brooding sci-fi visual novel from developer Mind’s Eclipse Interactive. Featuring hand-drawn graphics and emotional narrative-driven gameplay, The
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As a narrative adventure game, Legacy of Dragonholt occupies a unique space in gaming. The adventures that you embark upon are not about winning or losing. Instead, they’re about the stories that you can create – on your own or together with your friends – as you journey to Dragonholt village and beyond. Drawing elements
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Andrew Chapman’s piratical Fighting Fantasy adventure is something a little different: a contest of ‘speed and treasure’ set within a strategic puzzle format where luck is often as important as any calculated planning. The aim of this unique challenge is to locate enough gold and slaves (which can then be sold at a slave market
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The Ballad Singer is a unique and ambitious videogame designed by Riccardo Bandera from Italian developer Curtel Games. Inspired by RPGs, visual novels and gamebooks, this ‘narrated graphic experience’ asks the player to build their own path during each game, creating challenging, immersive stories where decision-making and consequences will directly determine your fate. Featuring both single
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Joe’s son, Ben Dever, posted the following message on Facebook today: As the anniversary of the loss of our father approaches, it’s time to reflect and to share some news about the future of his universe. This will be one of the final posts on this page. At the end of the month, the profile
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Your ‘ACE Gamebooks’ series continues to expand with NEVERLAND. What’s your process for choosing these classic stories and settings, and what is it that personally excites you about writing in these existing worlds? My decision to publish Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland in 2015 was not only motivated by my desire to revisit adapting Lewis Carroll’s
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Set off and explore the world of Catan like never before with Asmodee Digital’s Catan Stories: Legend of the Sea Robbers, a text-based adventure set within the Seafarers expansion campaign for the classic resource-management board game. Seventy years after the first settlers arrived on Catan, the island is enjoying peace and prosperity, but for how
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Jonathan Green has launched the Kickstarter campaign for his latest gamebook, NEVERLAND – Here Be Monsters! In this brand-new, thrilling adventure you choose the course of the story – inspired by both Peter Pan and Wendy, by J. M. Barrie, and The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s Treasure Island meets Jurassic Park!
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Launched back in 2011, Michael J. Ward’s first DestinyQuest book, The Legion of Shadow, presented gamebook fans with something distinctively new and different to experience: a fantasy adventure built on a structure directly influenced by computer RPGs focused on character customisation and combat. As the series developed further with the subsequent releases of The Heart
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Path of Discovery: Europa is an atmospheric, choice-based, sci-fi game from Serbian game development studio Eipix Entertainment. This CYOA-style game is tailored with Alexa Echo Show in mind – Amazon’s voice-controlled smart device with a 7″ touchscreen. What this means is that the player can navigate through the story in classic skill manner using verbal
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Featuring more than 1,350 sections and with a completely unique approach to section reference and replayability, Rider of the Black Sun is one of the most extensive gamebooks ever published. Originally released as a German language edition (Reiter der schwarzen Sonne) during 2012, publisher Mantikore Verlag decided to print a small amount of promotional copies
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