Humorous, colourful, and full of teenage angst and attitude, ‘Normal Club from developer Cubus Games (The Frankenstein Wars, Heavy Metal Thunder etc.) is an interactive gamebook app in which you explore the town of Buckcreek and its mysterious surroundings in search of paranormal hot spots. Adapted from author Philip Armstrong’s winning entry in the 2013 […]
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The subject matter, mood and scope of interactive fiction has been evolving and expanding for some time now, with digital gamebooks regularly leading this advancement as they utilise the available technology to tackle content in a manner unseen (or impossible) in earlier print-based products. One of these innovators is the indie studio Cubus Games, based
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Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus tells the cautionary tale of Victor Frankenstein, a gifted man of science who develops a process built on the principle of life to imbue vitality into previously inanimate matter. His humanoid creation is a truly hideous ‘abhorred monster’ with intelligence and humanity, who pursues and punishes Dr.
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Slaughter at Masada is the third release in the Heavy Metal Thunder series of apps from developer Cubus Games. This well-received interactive science fiction series is written by Kyle B. Stiff and illustrated by Marc Gonzalez. A one-week Kickstarter campaign is currently underway, raising funds so that a visual and intuitive user interface can be
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Cubus Games continue to make excellent progress on their upcoming gamebook app The Frankenstein Wars – an interactive sci-fi tale of war and horror. This ‘meaty, choice-intensive story’, features a branching, non-linear, time-sensitive storyline where you guide two brothers through a 19th century alternate-history setting: Tom and Anton Clerval have long guarded the secret to
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Deadman Diaries is a new gamebook app from Cubus Games – the creators of Heavy Metal Thunder, Sol Invictus, Necklace of Skulls, etc. Readers will be immersed in the life of John Riggs, a bank worker who has to pay off a gambling debt that will lead him to different illegal, and often lethal, situations.
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