Hello all! Here are some things going on in the gamebook world.
Releases
You're a Wizard!
You’re a Wizard! is aimed at children aged 6-10 and is an interactive story in which you, a schoolchild, go on an exciting adventure. It’s a 100-section gamebook filled with original illustrations, and is designed specifically for a younger audience:
- an optional, introductory approach to mechanics with no need for dice
- language and presentation aimed to be accessible for early readers while stretching vocabulary
- unsuccessful endings contain hints and shortcuts to “save points”
- a minor sense of threat appropriate for the adventure, with no violence or death
You’re a Wizard! (paperback pre-order) – IsaacsonAuthor.com
Steam Highwayman on Cubus Games
Martin Noutch's Steampunk open world gamebooks are becoming an app! They will be released by Cubus Games on September 30th 2021.
http://www.cubusgames.com/steam-highwayman
Break Out Dig the News
Break Out Dig the News is a choose your own adventure text maze game. Such games take you on a trip through a story told in a non-linear way. You’ll need to make choices and face the consequences. Let’s see how far you can get in the wicked and vicious world of creative news writing and disinformation. I hope, it'll help you boost your resistance to the nuisanse news which bombard us all the time.
Break Out Dig The News by ils 9 on Genially
Artemis Tabletop
Artemis Tabletop is making solo games for DnD 5a and Pathfinder
artemis (artemis-tabletop.com)
Lone Wolf 31 out!
This is not new, but I've only just realised. Lone Wolf 31 is out. Only one more Lone Wolf to go!
The Dusk of Eternal Night - Lone Wolf 31
Skelley Tales
Cat Wheel Table Top has released some solo gaming experience based on public domain comics.
Skelly Tales 5 - Cat Wheel Table Top | DriveThruRPG.com
Zines
The Warlock Returns is on issue 4.
The Warlock Returns Issue #04 - Arion Games | Advanced Fighting Fantasy | DriveThruRPG.com
The Gamebook Zine is currently on issue 3
The Gamebook Zine 3 by Simon Palmer (itch.io)
Podcasts
Campaign on Dice is a podcast where two guys play through gamebooks
CAMPAIGN ON DICE | wwwwb (whenwagonwheelswerebigger.com)
The Instadeath Survivor's Support Group is currently playing through the Island of Dr Moreau by K.J. Shadmand.
Welcome to Instadeath Survivors Support Group by Instadeath Survivors Support Group (anchor.fm)
Fantastic Fights and Where to Find them is a podcast where someone works through gamebooks. The current one is Appointment with F.E.A.R.
Fantastic Fights — Haunted Phonograph
Fundraising
Sam at The Warlock Returns Zine is running a charity auction and raffle for Mind. Live stream planned for the results on 24/10. Guests to confirm, and prizes may well be of interest..
The Warlock Returns auction for FF & AFF ttRPG Fans - GalaBid
Crowdfunding
Malivor: Cataclysm's Edge (MCE)
Malivor: Cataclysm's Edge (MCE) is the highly-anticipated, third title in the Savage Realms Gamebooks library and is written in the style of the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. YOU determine the outcome of the story by the choices that you make! Sometimes, your very fate will even depend on the roll of the dice themselves!
The two small shorts that you got in the Gamebook Zine issues 1 and 2 were only a taste of what will truly be an epic storyline and gamebook!
Malivor: Cataclysm's Edge | Indiegogo
Interactive Fiction & Gamebooks Discussion Group (Book Club) | Facebook
October's book is Dracodeep Dungeon by The Story Master's Tales.
Err, just one more thing...
Next week, I will be releasing the rules for the first Lindenbaum Prize for short gamebook fiction! This competition is inspired by the Windhammer competition which I loved doing from 2008-2015.
Come back next week for the guidelines!
STOP PRESSES:
There is a Rebel Planet comic coming soon! FIGHTING FANTASY: REBEL PLANET the graphic novel by Mark Lain — Kickstarter