Spoken Adventures have launched a Kickstarter to fund their interactive audio adaptation of Ulisses Spiele’s solo adventure for the German RPG The Dark Eye. You hear the muffled sound of footfalls on wet cobblestones, then the sound of heavy boots stepping through puddles. You can’t see farther than ten yards in the thick fog that […]
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The debut gamebook from New Zealand author Dane Barrett, Children of the Painted Apple is a near-future mystery adventure mixing real events with fictional elements, set on the ‘land of the long white cloud.’ You are a police officer with an extraordinary power. Your name is Hugh Hatch, and in the year 2045 you have
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This month we have news about forthcoming print gamebooks; interactive games playable on PC, Mac and in your web browser; an audio adventure for Alexa; and a solo storytelling game. • • •Draw Nine Draw Nine is a short narrative Twine game created by Damon L. Wakes, in which you play the role of a
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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,
Written by Simon Birks (co-founder of Blue Fox Comics), and with art by Lyndon White (cover) and Willi Roberts (interior), the first gamebook in the Arcane Rites series, Cult of the Pajoli, is now seeking funding via Kickstarter. You are a hunter and adventurer named Derilion crossing Pregeara, the only land you’ve ever known, making
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An unsettling narrative into the world of psychotherapy, Catalyst, developed by Doubleton Game Studio, is an interactive story told via newspaper articles, notes, letters, tape recordings and a unique journal that evolves throughout the game based on insightful analysis of an unusual therapy session. After the mysterious death of Dr Pokorny, Dr Novak, relatively unknown
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Choice of Games are currently offering their 460,000-word fantasy epic Exile of the Gods by Jonathan Valuckas, a sequel to Champion of the Gods, at a discounted price during a pre-order period before its public release on July 11th. In the great war between the gods, will you wield the chains of destiny, or shatter
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A distinctively different type of gamebook experience, Omniverse: Book 1 – Prologue by Leona Rose is a unique puzzle adventure that combines interactive fiction with the immersive mechanics of RPGs, video games and escape rooms – all wrapped up in a wonderfully gloomy dystopian narrative. Its non-linear emergent gameplay is presented in a format that
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Canadian developer StoryFix Media has released their gripping sci-fi text adventure game The Pulse. A modern CYOA-style narrative, The Pulse adds new layers of interactivity to the medium made popular by the books and games of the 80s by allowing players to further shape the storyline by gaining or losing a protagonist’s trust, rewarding exploration, and
Asteroid Run: No Questions Asked is a 325,000-word text-based interactive science fiction novel written by Fay Ikin and published by Choice of Games. Cargo runs between Earth, Mars and the Asteroid Belt are commonplace, but deadly. You’re the captain of a merchant vessel, but this time, your contract has a twist: don’t open the cargo,
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The brand new Lone Wolf website, magnamund.com, is now open for business! The site features new and reprinted gamebooks, art prints by Alberto Dal Lago and Lukas Thelin, a Brief History of Lone Wolf written by Jonathan Green (together with a visual timeline of all Lone Wolf products), and includes a link to the Lone
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The second gamebook from EndGame Gaming in the Savage Realms Legorian Kings Saga, Escape from Darkmoor Keep, has now been launched for funding on Kickstarter. A multi-quest gamebook written in the style of the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, YOU (and/or your party, if you are playing with multiple players) determine the
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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Story Creator Mode is an all-new quest creation tool available for free to owners of the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey video game from Ubisoft. Story Creator Mode allows you to write your own stories in the world of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and discover community stories on the Story Creator Mode website and add
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It’s been another busy period since our last round-up, full of interesting news and new releases to report on from a broad range of interactive fiction. Our selection for this month includes some printed gamebooks (brand new and updated versions), a programmed adventure, text-based apps, and a role-playing video game. • • •Choice of Games
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