Hello all! Sorry I'm late again, but here is the news from May.
Black Dog Gamebooks
David Lowrie has released another book!
A brand new gamebook from Black Dog Gamebooks, written and illustrated by David Lowrie
After the epic tale of the original Shadow Thief trilogy - comes something a bit different.
In this first Shadow Thief Caper: an Unkindness of Ravens, and Shadow is back doing what he should be doing- stealing. Set a year after the epic events of Heroes, then Shadow is once again working as a thief, and trying to rebuild the Jackdaws, the thieves' guild. But what happens if he steals the wrong thing from the wrong person?
Expect sneaking , climbing , creeping , puzzles , fights in the dark , taverns , beer, bar fights , mysterious women, dark magic, poisoning , familiars , assassinations , rooftop fights, voodoo dolls, and horrific deaths.
An Unkindness of Ravens: A Shadow Thief Caper: Amazon.co.uk: Lowrie, Mr David: 9798446323210: Books
Adam C. Mitchell
Welcome to General Quarters Captain! You are about to take control of a submarine in World War II. Your mission to sink merchant trade convoy's, ships and tankers. With each ship lost the much needed resources of the Japanese War Machine will slow to a crawl. This is your mission Good Luck Captain!
General Quarters: A WW II D66 GAMEBOOK ADVENTURE: Mitchell, Adam C: 9798436451107: Books - Amazon
Dragon Warriors
Red Ruin Publishing has released another Dragon Warriors solo.
You have entered this benighted land, where you can either aid or oppose the forces of order.
In this open world gamebook, many adventures await -- explore haunted monasteries, delve into once deserted barrows or investigate cursed forests -- the choice is yours!
Scourge of the Shadows – A Dragon Warriors Solo Adventure - Red Ruin Publishing | DriveThruRPG.com
Choose Your Own Adventure
There are some CYOA releases this June:
The Flight of the Unicorn (PRE-ORDER) – Chooseco LLC (cyoa.com)
You are on a fantastic quest through medieval Scotland to find your missing pegacorn mentor, Dame Scotia. You believe she was kidnapped to steal her magic to create a pegacorn army. Can you and your newly-trained pegaorn, Liss, locate Dame Scotia in time to prevent war?
The Ghost on the Mountain (PRE-ORDER) – Chooseco LLC (cyoa.com)
You’re on a family vacation in Haiti to learn about your heritage when you discover a ghost in your room. The ghost tells you her name is Yvette, and that the mountains are calling you. Before you can answer, you meet a little girl named TiYoyo, who wants to show you her home.
Fairy House (PRE-ORDER) – Chooseco LLC (cyoa.com)
Bored and ignored by your busy parents, you decide to go outside and build a fairy house. Just when you’re sure nothing is going to happen, you meet Bert the Below Average: a real, live fairy. He’s not exactly what you had in mind. But he’ll do. Let the adventures begin!
Computer games
Fabled Lands CRPG
The beta for the entire of Harkuna (books 1,2, 4 and 5) is up now. You can sign up for the beta here:
Fabled Lands - BETA sign-up! - Steam News (steampowered.com)
You can read about it here:
Choice of Games
Freshman Magic: Spellbooks and Tangled Sheets
Freshman Magic: Spellbooks and Tangled Sheets (choiceofgames.com)
Freshman Magic: Spellbooks and Tangled Sheets] is a 263,000-word interactive gay romance novel by Raven de Hart. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
A magical duelling scholarship won you a spot at the prestigious Briarthorn University, one of the top magic colleges in North America. You expected a hard workload and even harder dueling practice sessions…you weren’t expecting your classmates to be so distracting!
Crowdfunding
This is a murder mystery gamebook. It has 28 days left and about £550 to go!
Framed by GR Jordan
UYD#2: Framed by G R Jordan — Kickstarter
"Framed" is a tale where YOU are the hero, or rather the victim, having been found beside the body of your employer with a gun in your hand. YOU don't know how YOU got there but if YOU're going to avoid jail then YOU'd better find out, and sharpish!
This gamebook is a mix of murder mystery and action adventure gamebook as you explore the island of Dr Flavius Munroe, now deceased, and try to find out which of the invited guests has landed you in the frame for his murder.
Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents
Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents (choiceofgames.com)
Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents is a 225,000-word interactive science-fiction novel by Dora Klindžić. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
The man who invented the 20th century was a queer immigrant from Serbia. Nikola Tesla dreamed of distributing free energy to all of mankind but passed away in a New York hotel room alone and forgotten. What if it had gone differently?
Life of a Space Force Captain, plus Paradox Factor is now on Steam!
User-Made Games Archive - Choice of Games LLC
Play as human, various species of alien, or even a robot. With the help of your friends and your loyal, upgradable robo-pet, you will go to school to learn skills of your own choosing before taking a position as a lowly cadet.
Destiny Quest World Companion
I've mentioned this one before and it is already funded. You can still get it here:
DestinyQuest: The World Companion by Michael J Ward — Kickstarter
Dormus is a world riven with strife and conflict, its very fabric of reality under threat from otherworldly forces and cataclysmic events. These are dark and perilous days, where fractious tensions threaten to bring down kingdoms and empires, and demonic invaders sow seeds of chaos and destruction to hasten the fall of humanity.
This is a time when great heroes will rise – legendary men and women of fame, who will spin the web of destiny anew, changing lives and history, influencing kings and nations, and becoming beacons of hope amidst a desperate world teetering on the brink of ruin.
Interactive Fiction and Gamebooks Book Club
Interactive Fiction & Gamebooks Discussion Group (Book Club) | Facebook
June's book is You Are a Filmmaker.
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