This week we’re reading "Mountain Survival" during #StorytimeWithSteve, book #28 in the original #ChooseYourOwnAdventure series. Bonus is that I’m reading it from a special library edition, which makes it a hardcover! You just know the story is better because the cover won’t bend! 🙂
Me, it's the #CYOA / #ChooseYourOwnAdventure pocket books. Special mention, CYOA #5 “The Mystery Of Chimney Rock” by Edward Packard. I think I was 4 then, when I saw the book on my father's shelves; published two years before I was born. LOL.
I got hook with CYOA and started writing my own CYOA stories. I wish I still have the notebooks I used for those stories so I can put them online!
I also remember how I let my classmates give feedback about my own CYOA, even explained to them how it works. After they've read all my works, it was only then I introduced them to the real CYOA books. (Sorry Edward! But, they probably won't read my own stories if I introduced the real CYOA first. bows) I also thought of submitting my works to CYOA!
"It's here! Our first project! Check out Django Text Game Builder on GitHub and start building your own Choose Your Own Adventure style games today. 🐶"
Choose Your Own Adventure Leans into Gaming: "Shannon Gilligan, co-founder and publisher at Chooseco, noted that, excluding sales through Ingram, gift and toy stores recently took over from bookshops as the company’s top direct-sales channel. “Bookstores are carrying more games as well,” she added."
IFComp 2023 is going strong! We've got a good assortment of reviews, discussion, and general Interactive Fiction talk happening on the Intfiction Forums. Join us if you're interested in games told through prose.
👋🦶"I caught the plague and my feet and hands rotted off, and no one knew how to save me. Sometimes, my heart was cut out of my body and eaten while I was still alive." 💛
(📷: "Blood Island" by Liz Windover. Illustration by Gabhor Utomo. Choose Your Own Nightmare #3, 2014)
Written by Edward Packard in 1992, it only has 12 endings, but the cover has a kid riding a flying bicycle over some cows. C'mon, you want to know how he got into that situation, right?
I like to joke that whenever the authors of vintage #ChooseYourOwnAdventure books ran into a storytelling challenge, they fell back on the trope of time travel. Didn't see it coming in a ninja book this week!
Not surprising when you recall that the first #CYOA is "The Cave of Time" ⏳
(📷: "Return of the Ninja" by Jay Leibold. Choose Your Own Adventure #92, 1989)
Dug out my gamebooks and dusted off the Fighting Fantasy ones. There should also be some FF magazines around, although they weren't boxed with the books, so it might be a bit before they emerge.
Are you fond of #AudioDramas and would enjoy it if someone mixed one with elements of a #CYOA (choose your own adventure)? Would you like to play a #VideoGame, except it's really an #AudioGame, possible to play entirely by ear? Want something that's also #accessible to #blind people? Are you on #Android, #iOS, #Mac or #Windows?
Well then, go play The Klaxo Radio Hour! It's #free, short enough you can complete a playthrough in one sitting, and hecking fun! It's got some interesting mixing of older and more modern elements, professional voice acting, and a great story. https://ndef.itch.io/klaxo-radio-hour
And even if the above description doesn't sound tempting, do go give it a try anyway, especially if your name is @zein! Trust me; it's so good, it just might steal your soul! #AudioDrama#VideoGames#AudioGames#Gaming#game#games#gamer
For #StorytimeWithSteve at work this week, giving Edward Packard's "Horror House" a scary read.
This 1993 #ChooseYourOwnAdventure appeared towards the end of the original run (book 140 of 185) - a time when the number of endings dropped considerably. There are only 8 in this book. At what point are you just writing a linear story with just a few page hops? Very glad the relaunch of the series moved away from this trend!