Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf will hit your TV screen as an interactive live-action series! UK based production company ChorMedia together with Holmgard Ltd are adapting Lone Wolf, Variety reports. Neil Chordia (Urban Hymn) and Ben Dever (Joe Dever’s son) are executive producers, bringing the fictional world of Magnamund to life. Since this will be an …
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The Complex is an interactive, choice-based sci-fi thriller from Wales Interactive, the publisher and developer of numerous FMV games, including Late Shift, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, and The Shapeshifting Detective. After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. With CYOA-style …
Interactive fiction, readable as what we may now describe as a narrative ‘gamebook’, became a relatively commonplace form of entertainment during the 1970s and early ’80s. Some of the earliest choice-based stories are from the Tracker Books series by Transworld Publishers in the UK. One of their first published titles is 1972’s Secret of the …
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Branching Narrative’s Deathtrap Dungeon is an interactive video realisation of Ian Livingstone’s multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy gamebook – one of the most popular titles in the celebrated series. Starring British actor Eddie Marsan as the narrator and guide, this video storybook showcases Branching Narrative’s new Interactive Fiction engine, and features nearly 5 hours of video, …
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This December update is the final Round-up article we’ll be posting on GBN. Due to recent alterations to our category structure and further upcoming improvements to the site, we’ll now make a switch to separately listing all news items as either a normal post set in our standard formatting, or as a brief ‘NewsByte’ for …
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Choose your destiny in Mark Fischbach’s interactive video adventure, A Heist with Markiplier, as you make life-or-death decisions during a museum heist. This first interactive film from YouTube Originals presents an engaging first-person perspective where it’s up to you to choose which direction to take or how to react to situations arising during your escape …
It’s been yet another busy month for interactive fiction, with many interesting releases recently hitting retail outlets or seeking finance via crowdfunding. We’ve gathered together a wide variety of books, digital games, board games and more to tempt you – surely something for both young and old, and every taste and wallet! • • •Savage …
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Telling Lies is the new live-action video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. An investigative experience with non-linear storytelling, Telling Lies revolves around a cache of secretly recorded video conversations of four characters targeted by surveillance. A complex and absorbing crime fiction thriller, Telling Lies sits you in …
A cinematic murder mystery, ERICA is a gripping interactive thriller developed for PlayStation 4 by Flavourworks and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. ERICA marries high-fidelity film production values with choice-based gameplay, allowing you to reach into the game world and take control of the action. Immerse yourself in live-action video and make tactile choices through …
Independent Russian entertainment studio Rhinotales has released their live-action thriller She Sees Red, a short but high-quality interactive film full of drama and violence, where your choices will affect the plot and reveal the various pieces of the puzzle. A female detective continues to do her best to catch an elusive criminal who murdered several …
Another bumper round-up this month, covering multiple genres, platforms and products, and diverse styles of adventurous play. Will YOU test your deductive abilities to solve a mystery, visit a steampunk Paris or participate in a live action thriller? We have news of games, tools, art and tomes of information – something to please anyone seeking …
The BBC’s international technology programme, Click, has celebrated its 1000th show with a special ‘pick your own path’ anniversary episode featuring an extended interview with Fighting Fantasy co-creator Ian Livingstone. This interactive special includes stories about self-driving vehicles in Arizona (and examines the first recorded case of a pedestrian fatality), visits tech entrepreneurs in Malawi, …
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 …