Dan Heck’s Thomerion Series is Live on Twitch TV

Back in April of last year, GBN interviewed Dan Heck, author of the Thomerion series, a trilogy of interactive novels set in the exotic world of Ambrosinia. If you’d like to refresh your memory about this insight into Dan’s background, influences and work, you can find the interview here: INTERVIEW: Dan Heck’s imaginative adventures – Gamebook

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Three games from Choice of Games & Hosted Games

Three new digital gamebooks from Choice of Games and Hosted Games have landed. As always, all three games are entirely text-based — without graphics or sound effects. Werewolves 2: Pack Mentality is a 360,000 word interactive novel in Jeffrey Dean’s acclaimed “Claw, Shadow, and Sage” series, where your choices control the story. It’s a war

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GAME DEV: Phoebe Avison’s Great Gamebook Adventure — Part 2

So my friends, we meet again. I thought our second rendezvous would take place on a clear path, with meadows flanking either side, and a lilting tune performed by a handsome bard floating on the summer breeze. But, dear ones, the path is littered with corpses picked over by vultures and my bard is long

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Newsbyte: Lone Wolf Collector’s Edition & New Hosted Games Adventure

Holmgard Press recently published a collector’s edition of The Fall of Blood Mountain, book number 26 in the Lone Wolf series. In The Fall of Blood Mountain, you must journey to the subterranean kingdom of the dwarves and attempt to save your ancient allies from the wrath of the Shom’zaa. This collector’s edition features Brian

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Kickstarters: Edgar Allan Poe & Hotel Lovecraft

Officina Meningi – the people behind the Necronomicon Gamebooks (Dagon and Carcosa) – are back with an Edgar Allen Poe inspired gamebook. The Kickstarter launches on August 28 – so get ready for some creepy nightmare horror from authors that truly understand the genre! Some of Poe’s most famous short stories (The Black Cat, The

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AUDIO: Detective X – An Interactive Amazon & Google Adventure

Detective X is an audio work of interactive fiction, released for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, developed by the Toronto-based Budgie voice app design studio. Do you have what it takes to catch a killer? Or will the killer catch you? The chase is on in Detective X! A choose-your-own-adventure-style thriller with roots in narrative-driven

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Kickstarter: Light Strikers by Code of Light Studios

As part of a kickstarter launch of a multi-platform TTRPG that includes a complete game system & campaign setting, Code of Light Studios is releasing a short battlebook that is inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy style of gamebooks. Pre-launch Kickstarter page is currently open.  A $5 pledge will get you

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NEWSBYTE: Kickstarter Game, Choice of Games & Rhianna Pratchett’s FF book!

Not only is this summer proving to be a scorcher, it’s also full of HOT gamebook news! Tons of things are happening – fresh Kickstarters, interactive audio adventures, print gamebooks, and much more. We’re in for a treat! Here’s a peek at some new and upcoming projects. Roll Player Adventures is currently live on Kickstarter.

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Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf developed as interactive TV series

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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NEW iOS game: Night in the Unpleasant House

Unmapped Path is releasing Night in the Unpleasant House, an interactive mystery story for iOS. Night in the Unpleasant House is a branching work of interactive fiction – a twisted tale of loss, revenge, local politics, and pseudoscience. It’s been ten years since your father disappeared after learning a dark secret about his boss, the town’s Mayor. After working your way

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Kickstarter: Myrrk Book One: The Blighted Well

Myrrk Book One: The Blighted Well, written and illustrated by UK-based illustrator Joe McEvoy, is being launched on Kickstarter. Myrrk is a unique fantasy adventure gamebook that features isometric illustrations. The story is set in a chaotic world called Hexwynd that has been ravaged by warfare and thrown into an age of darkness and sorcery.

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