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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Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood is a new text-based role-playing game that blends interactive fiction, resource management and base building against the backdrop of Sherwood Forest. You are Robin of Locksley. Hounded from your home by the Sheriff of Nottingham, take control of your fate in this extravagant, illustrated role-playing game. Rob from the rich
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Italian indie game studio Tiny Bull Studios are currently running a Kickstarter campaign for their new narrative-based RPG game Omen Exitio: Plague, the first chapter of a planned “Omen Exitio” series set in the world of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythology. Make history and change the course of time while meeting some of the Great People
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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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