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Category: Gamebooks

Z-Man announces Choose Your Own Adventure co-op game

April 14, 2018 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Gamebooks, Geek Culture Leave a comment

With board games becoming more story-driven, it makes sense for game publishers to look toward classic adventure stories for design inspiration. It makes even more sense to design a game around the Choose Your Own Adventure books – stories that

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Interactive fiction conference streaming June 9th

June 8, 2014 Allan Sugarbaker Gamebooks, Geek Culture, Uncategorized Leave a comment

So, remember Choose Your Own Adventure books, the Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf gamebooks, and other solo-adventure enabling products? Those are interactive fiction. We like to bring them up from time to time because they were formative influences on our

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2011 Windhammer Prize Voting Begins

September 15, 2011 Demian Katz Gamebooks One comment

The entries in the 2011 Windhammer Prize for Short Gamebook Fiction have been made public, and voting is open until October 30th. If you’re a fan of interactive fiction and want to reap the fruits of this year’s competition, just

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Fabled Lands back in print

December 1, 2010 Demian Katz Computer and Console Games, Gamebooks One comment

The Fabled Lands series is one of the most ambitious gamebook projects ever attempted: a huge world which can be explored in a totally non-linear fashion, with each book representing a different region full of adventure and hazard. The tragedy

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Voting begins in Windhammer Prize gamebook competition

September 16, 2010 Demian Katz Contests, Gamebooks 2 comments

The third year of the Windhammer Prize competition is now underway. Five short gamebooks are available for free download, and you can vote to determine which author wins the cash prize! If you’re a fan of solo adventures, take the

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Windhammer Gamebook Competition Entering Third Year

March 5, 2010 Demian Katz Contests, Game Design, Gamebooks Leave a comment

In case you missed out on the first two years, the third annual Windhammer Prize is posting its rules and schedule early to allow plenty of time for writing and judging original gamebooks. While this hasn’t quite reached the scale

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OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2009, part 3

December 13, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Features, Gamebooks, Miniatures Games, OgreCave

If you plan to give gifts this holiday season – or better yet, receive them – you’ve surely been perusing local stores and forming a list. The Cave dwellers have done the same, in the third section of our OgreCave

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OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2009, part 2

December 11, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Gamebooks, Geek Culture, OgreCave, Roleplaying Games

Another weekend of holiday shopping is here, and you’ve probably formed some ideas of the larger-cost items you’ll be picking up (or requesting from others). In case your mind’s not quite made up yet, the OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2009

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Lone Wolf gamebooks to become feature film

July 25, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Gamebooks Leave a comment

Variety.com reports that Convergence Entertainment has secured the rights for a live action Lone Wolf feature film. Joe Dever’s classic fantasy gamebook series has already made the transition to full roleplaying game through Mongoose Publishing, but the leap to the

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OgreCave reviews – Dragon Warriors & Citadel of the Corruptor

June 10, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Dungeons & Dragons, Gamebooks, Reviews, Roleplaying Games

A pair of lovely new reviews have just gone up in our RPG section. First, Demian has become acquainted with the new edition of Dragon Warriors from Magnum Opus Press, and he clears up why the RPG used to be

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State of the Mongoose 2008 report posted

December 1, 2008 Allan Sugarbaker D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Gamebooks, Industry, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games One comment

Still a significant publisher in tabletop gaming, Mongoose Publishing has just given its fans a status update in the form of its annual State of the Mongoose report (also copied below). Points of interest include plans for Hammers Slammers, a

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Voting begins in new gamebook competition

November 16, 2008 Demian Katz Computer and Console Games, Gamebooks 2 comments

This year, the home of the free online Chronicles of Arborell gamebooks is hosting a competition to encourage new authors. All the entries are in, and readers are now encouraged to take a look and vote for their favorites. The

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Best Choose Your Own Adventure list at AOL

November 14, 2008 Allan Sugarbaker Gamebooks, OgreCave Leave a comment

It isn’t often that we link to an AOL feature article, but their list of the top 20 Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks is somewhat entertaining. We lend even more credence to the list due to the author thanking Gamebooks.org,

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State of the Mongoose ’07: aggressive and hungry

November 28, 2007 Allan Sugarbaker D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Gamebooks, Industry, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games 5 comments

For everyone’s safety, we try to keep tabs on any snake-eating mammals lurking nearby, and come to grips with what Mongoose Publishing plans to unleash on gamers in the year ahead. The traditional State of the Mongoose address was posted

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Magnamund tourist season nearly open again

May 30, 2007 Allan Sugarbaker Gamebooks, Roleplaying Games 7 comments

As promised last year, the Lone Wolf gamebooks, a popular entry point into roleplaying for many nostalgic gamers, are returning this September thanks to Mongoose Publishing. Original series author Joe Dever has expanded and updated the 28 original books, which

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