A deluxe edition of the out-of-print Elven Lords, a Tunnels & Trolls solitaire adventure originally published by Flying Buffalo Inc in 1990, is now seeking funding on Kickstarter. This new version is part of Kickstarter’s Make 100 – a creative initiative focused on limited editions. The signed and numbered print edition, limited to just 100 […]
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Megara Entertainment’s Kickstarter campaign for DestinyQuest IV: The Raiders of Dune Sea is now live! This fourth gamebook in Michael J. Ward’s epic series of adventures includes new careers and abilities, more choices, greater tactics, factions that you can side with, the opportunity to train a pet or summon a magical minion, and plenty of
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The Ballad Singer is a unique and ambitious videogame designed by Riccardo Bandera from Italian developer Curtel Games. Inspired by RPGs, visual novels and gamebooks, this ‘narrated graphic experience’ asks the player to build their own path during each game, creating challenging, immersive stories where decision-making and consequences will directly determine your fate. Featuring both single
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Jonathan Green has launched the Kickstarter campaign for his latest gamebook, NEVERLAND – Here Be Monsters! In this brand-new, thrilling adventure you choose the course of the story – inspired by both Peter Pan and Wendy, by J. M. Barrie, and The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s Treasure Island meets Jurassic Park!
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Featuring more than 1,350 sections and with a completely unique approach to section reference and replayability, Rider of the Black Sun is one of the most extensive gamebooks ever published. Originally released as a German language edition (Reiter der schwarzen Sonne) during 2012, publisher Mantikore Verlag decided to print a small amount of promotional copies
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Steam Highwayman Volume I: Smog and Ambuscade is a new steampunk gamebook from Martin Barnabus Noutch – the first volume in a series of six books exploring the world of the Steam Highwayman: a world of airships and steam-carriages amid a steam revolution where the actions of the privileged breed social inequality and injustice, and
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The fourth book in Michael J. Ward’s DestinyQuest series will finally be published after a contract with Megara Entertainment (known for their collector’s editions of the Way of the Tiger, Lone Wolf and other gamebooks) was recently finalised. Dark fury will rain down from the heavens. A lost race returns from the shrouds of time,
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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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Do you have a child in your life who’d love to read and play a full-colour, illustrated gamebook? Written for children aged 3 to 9, GameTale: The Big Adventure of the Little Gremlin is Bulgarian award-winning author Nikola Raykov’s interactive fairy tale featuring his little gremlin, Gremmy. He has little adventurous pawsies that don’t get tired
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Alcyone: The Last City (pronounced Al-Sigh-O-Knee!) is a sci-fi interactive fiction game set in the last City in the universe. Created by Joshua Meadows (a video game journalist/writer, and author of the episodic sci-fi/fantasy series Iyetra), Alcyone: The Last City is a text-based adventure where choice, influence, knowledge, moral ambiguity and consequences will ultimately determine your fate.
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Slaughter at Masada is the third release in the Heavy Metal Thunder series of apps from developer Cubus Games. This well-received interactive science fiction series is written by Kyle B. Stiff and illustrated by Marc Gonzalez. A one-week Kickstarter campaign is currently underway, raising funds so that a visual and intuitive user interface can be
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Gamebook News recently sent out its intrepid RHINO–MAN reporter to track down Jonathan Green, author of YOU ARE THE HERO Part 2 – a mighty tome of additional Fighting Fantasy history, which is currently funding on Kickstarter. After dragging a hesitant Mr Green back to a CALACORM-guarded prison cell in our office (he repeatedly muttered
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The 35th anniversary of the Fighting Fantasy series will be celebrated this year with the release of two new books: an Allansian adventure written by Ian Livingstone, and a companion volume to Jonathan Green’s You Are The Hero – A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, which was released in 2014 after a very successful Kickstarter. You
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A Kickstarter for The World Reborn, the second gamebook in the Midnight Legion trilogy that began with Operation Deep Sleep, has just been launched, offering something new for existing supporters of the original book, or for those now wishing to join as an Agent of the Legion. More than four centuries have passed since the
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