The Artifice Archipelago is a nautical ‘choose your own ending’ novel from Connor A. Wilkinson, in which the reader decides how to navigate the dangerous environment of the archipelago. With extensive choices, traps, deaths and many strange events happening, will YOU be able to make it through safely? Currently seeking funding on Kickstarter (it has […]
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Before Joe Dever’s untimely passing in late 2016 he completed revised editions of his post-apocalyptic series Freeway Warrior for Swedish publisher Åskfågeln, updating the original timeline to the year 2033 (rather than 2020 as in the 1988 edition) and changing some aspects of Cal Phoenix’s story to better match the expectations of a modern audience.
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Renowned gamebook blogger Mark Lain has just released the first gamebook in his new ‘old school’ series Destiny’s Role. The introductory book (numbered zero), entitled Zero To Hero, contains four short adventures, which introduce some of the themes and concepts of Destiny’s Role. Two of the adventures (Master of the Tiltyard and The Cult of
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Van Ryder Games, publishers of the hit solitaire game Hostage Negotiator and the investigative board game Detective: City of Angels, is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter for their latest project, Graphic Novel Adventures – five visual gamebooks in the style of graphic novels. What if a gamebook implemented GRAPHICS into the gameplay? What if, instead
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Scholastic have released the next six books in their relaunch of the Fighting Fantasy series, which includes Charlie Higson’s brand-new Allansian adventure The Gates of Death. Are YOU brave enough to face the all-powerful queen of Chaos, growing ever more monstrous behind the Gates of Death? A terrible plague has devastated Allansia, striking its people
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Tunnels & Trolls Adventures Hot Pursuit has been expanded as per Golden Dust, Red Death – it’s now a full-length adventure, with more to discover, battle and outsmart. The price has been raised for the new content, but you get it all for FREE if you’ve already bought it! New dangers and rewards lurk in
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The Rooms is something ‘other’ – a mysterious and uniquely interactive horror novelette in which you explore the strange events that occurred during the night in the apartment directly above your own: a terrific mechanical grinding, sobbing, and then a dull thud. The old man who lives in the apartment, known to you as ‘Babe’,
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The Two-Fisted Fantasy series from Sam Iacob (aka Herman S. Skull, Hermit Skull) simply isn’t your typical gamebook fare. Containing off-the-wall plots often full of puerile yet witty absurdity, populated by puzzling characters carrying plenty of personal baggage, and bursting with endless situations that entertain with their outlandish inventiveness and attitude, this series presents adventures
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Fighting Fantasy Audio Drama: The Series A multi-episode series of the officially-licensed Fighting Fantasy audio dramas will now be produced by Fox Yason Music Productions Limited, as their current Kickstarter campaign has already been successfully funded by over 200%. Following on from last year’s successful launch of the first episode, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain:
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Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson have released their insightful and intensely satirical gamebook Can You Brexit? It’s up to you to undertake the difficult negotiations of separation, where you not only have to deliver a workable Brexit as you manage ongoing domestic affairs, but you have to hold onto power while doing so! Can you
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The first gamebook of a new series from Disney Lucasfilm Press, Choose Your Destiny: A Han & Chewie Adventure, puts you in the middle of all the Star Wars action, making choices for Han and Chewie as they face down Imperial fighters, dangerous criminals and more. Written by author and comic writer Cavan Scott (Doctor
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Marvel has announced a new five-issue limited miniseries featuring their famously unpredictable Merc with a Mouth: Deadpool. However, this isn’t Marvel’s standard comic, but a playable interactive adventure in which the reader controls Deadpool’s story, rolling dice, making decisions and getting into fights as you travel through time in a whirlwind adventure. “YOU ARE DEADPOOL
There’s been quite a bit of activity in the last few weeks regarding games and books that GBN has been following, so here’s a quick round-up of a few that have recently become available: Dust and Salt Prime Games’ text-based tactical adventure game, Dust and Salt, is now available on Steam. A compelling medieval story
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Oz, the Great and Terrible – an enormous metallic skull with mecha-tentacles and eye-sockets containing emeralds – is a self-aware AI tasked with the protection of the people now that the Wizard has left Oz in his hot air balloon. Unfortunately, the AI has concluded that the best method to obey its programming is to
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