Tombs of Egypt is the second Escape This Book! title written by Bill Doyle and illustrated by Sarah Sax – a series of action and adventure books for younger readers where you doodle, decide and demolish your way out of some of history’s greatest events. Become the star in this unique mix of interactive fiction, […]
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Choice of Games’ An Odyssey: Echoes of War is a 250,000-word interactive retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey by Natalia Theodoridou (author of the Nebula nominated Rent-a-Vice), in which you fight the sea god’s wrath to reclaim your throne, and attempt to free yourself from the ghosts of war. The war is over – Troy has
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Choice of Games has released The Magician’s Workshop – a 190,000-word interactive historical fantasy novel by Kate Heartfield, whose first ChoiceScript game, The Road to Canterbury, was nominated for the 2018 Nebula Award for Game Writing. In 1512, Florence is known for ruthless politics, art, and magic. The infamous Medici family has returned after years
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a bleak American folk tale about travelling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny. Featuring gorgeous illustration by Kellan Jett, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine combines 2D visuals with a 3D map, inviting the player to embark on an interactive journey by foot, road or train, where history,
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This month we bring you news of interactive adventures set in different times and places: 6th-century Scandinavia, fantasy lands featuring marshlands and winter storms, Zanzibar in the late 19th century, an Australian small town, and war-ravaged Syria. • • •Beowulf Beastslayer Jonathan Green’s 4th title in his ACE Gamebooks series, Beowulf Beastslayer, has now been
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We’ve compiled a bumper round-up article this month, featuring a wide assortment of printed gamebooks recently released or coming soon, a couple of online games that are FREE to play, some very interesting video games, a pdf D&D adventure, and an Advanced Fighting Fantasy sourcebook for fans of FF. • • •Nemesis of the Nin
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The Oregon Trail was the major overland route from the Missouri River to the Pacific coast of the United States (particularly from 1846–69), taking those travelling to Oregon or the California goldfields, or other destinations such as Salt Lake City in Utah, across plains, prairies, rivers, mountains and deserts to reach their desired destination in
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The new year is certainly well underway so it’s time to catch up on a few recent releases, together with some interesting news regarding new projects and old favourites. Graphic Novel Adventures Van Ryder Games has revealed the cover artwork for the upcoming second season of their Graphic Novel Adventures visual gamebooks: Sherlock and Moriarty
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Bird of Passage is an interactive visual novel from Italian developer Space Backyard, an independent creative crew made up of Alessandro Arcidiacono, Simone Tranchina, Maddalena Grattarola and Gianluca Pandolfo. A short, minimalistic game of conversations and self-discovery incorporating a branching narrative relating to The Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, Bird of Passage offers an intriguing
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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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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Guardian Episode One is a text-based interactive game from writer Edwin McRae and the Auckland game studio Metia Interactive. Part one of a trilogy of adventures focussing on a young Māori warrior in a dark fantasy version of Aotearoa (New Zealand), the Guardian series is a hybrid historical/science-fiction story that draws on the mythology of
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A coproduction by The Pixel Hunt, Figs and ARTE France, and published by Playdius Entertainment, Bury me, my Love is inspired by real events and imbued with themes of love, hope and migration. Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety. The title
More than six centuries after his introduction through poems and ballads, Robin Hood – the late-medieval outlaw of Sherwood Forest – barely requires an introduction due to his ongoing renown and fascination to modern audiences. In Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood you play as the legendary Robin, but this version of the folkloric hero
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