bcyy Sun Apr 19 15:46:52 2009	How could we contribute to this site?
	You can write a gamebook and email it to me. I will put anything complete on the downloads page and consider an online adaptation if I think it's suitable.

Max
Sun Apr 19 15:50:32 2009

dunno

normanscott Sun May 3 05:37:58 2009	hey, when you click on 'more' beneath the list of gamebooks, a list of all the titles come. Next to each title is a picture. i was wondering, is the picture of the zombie next to bad moon rising from an FF book?
	Yes, it's from Revenge Of The Vampire and is by Martin McKenna.

Cablex Tue May 5 09:25:10 2009	Hi to anyone reading. I'm wondering about tips on how to make a gamebook. I have lots of Ideas but I don't know an easy way to mix up the paragraphs to make it unique and also I need help in making other paths and dead ends because I can do with my ideas is make a story and not a gamebook. So tips would be helpful, thanks. Cablex
	ADVELH (see the software section of the links page) provides an easy way to mix up the paragraphs. If nobody here volunteers any tips you could always ask at one of the Yahoo! groups. Alternatively, Mark J. Popp's old website (see the downloads page) has a section where several amateur authors offer general advice.

Cablex Tue May 5 09:27:10 2009	One thing I forgot, if I make a gamebook how do I post it on this site. Cablex
	You can email it to me.

Phil Sadler
Tue May 5 20:55:52 2009

My advice would be to map out your book on squared paper first because this helps get it all in your head. Then you can have fun filling up the locations with your favourite monsters, traps and spells.

Ulysses
Tue May 5 23:06:12 2009

Hi Cablex.

When I write a gamebook, I don't really have a plan, but just let it create itself as it goes along. I begin with an idea about how long it is going to be, what I ultimately want to happen, and things I want to include. The I just start writing and it all works itself out.
In terms of practical advice, I create an excel spreadsheet with all of the reference numbers from 1 to, say, 100. I also have a sheet of paper on my desk, and at the top I write a 1, then when I finish writing the first reference, ending with, say, two choices on how to proceed in the story, I draw two branches from the '1' and label them with numbers randomly selected from the table of numbers in the excel spreadsheet. Then I delete the used numbers from the spreadsheet. As I write the references, I put them in in the correct order. So while I might write the references in an order like: 1, 45, 22, 75, etc, I insert whichever passage I am writing next into it's proper place.
I tend to write all of the different paths at once, but I know that some people write the correct path, then go back and add on false paths, alternate routes and dead ends. Unfortunately, you can sometimes tell when they have done this because there is a drop in quality once you are off the correct path, as if the author is a bit bored with the other paths and just wants to get them done. If you have trouble planning out diffirent paths simultaneously, then do write the correct path out first without worrying about choices, just break it up into chapters at logical points. Then once you have finished, go back to the end of each chapter and think about how the story could have gone in a different direction, then start writing, and after another chapter or two on the parallel path, join it back into the main path. Some deviations can just be one chapter long (such as choosing to do something or not, but leaving the room afterwards regardless).
But the best advice is to start small. If you have a brilliant idea that you don't think can be done justice in a small adventure, then don't write it yet. Think about an idea that is suitable for 20-30 references and write that first to build your skills.

Good luck.

Cablex
Wed May 6 08:39:11 2009

Thanks guys this is very useful

Cablex

Max
Sun May 17 11:16:14 2009

Fate runners coming along nicely just been off it a couple of weeks but now ive nearly finished it, ill send a link when its done

Max
Sun May 17 11:17:22 2009

One more thing speilbuch is a great website it does all the creating of the book for you all you have to do is type.

normanscott Thu May 21 07:01:36 2009	is the picture of the vampire as the template of outsider! from Vault of the Vampire or Revenge of the Vampire?
	Revenge Of The Vampire.

normanscott Sat May 23 14:16:12 2009	sorry for the repeated questions, but this is the last one. what about the pictures of lair of the troglodytes, outsider and in the footsteps of a hero (i'm assuming its from magehunter)?
	Well, the Outsider! one I've just told you. The Lair Of The Troglodytes picture is from Casket Of Souls and is by Iain McCaig, the one for In The Footsteps Of A Hero is by Russ Nicholson and is from one of the books in the Fabled Lands series.

normanscott Sun May 24 12:23:38 2009	i didn't mean outsider (once again, sorry) but curse of the yeti
	That one is from the Warlock magazine version of Caverns Of The Snow Witch and is by Duncan Smith.

dark
Sun May 24 13:36:13 2009

Hi.

I was wondering if someone could please help me with this.

For a long while, on sites like here and project.aon I've heard of the fabled lands series.

Reading about them on Wikipedia, they sound really intreaguing.

apparently all of the originally published books, ----- pluss some extra fan published later books, are available from the Fabled lands yahoo group as pdf documents.

while playing gamebooks in basic text using ctrl F can be rather slow as compared to links, it's stil certainly a lot better than not playing them at all.

the only problem is that to download the books requires being signed up to the yahoo group, which requires one of those irritating image verification logueines, and unlike Google's groups system there didn't seem to be any kind of alternative.

Contacting Yahoo to fix this looks like something of a nightmare with their contact forms (which also feature image verification systems from what I could gather), so I was wondering if someone around here who might have the books from the fabled lands group, ---- both the originals and any fan work, would be kind enough to send them to me. I could also see then about sticking them on sendspace or similar so other visually impared gamebook fans could read them without hastle.

The E-mail address to send to would be dark at xgam dot org.

As an exploration fan, I deffinately like what I've hard of this series, so am certainly eager to try them.

Thanks in advance.

Dark.

Andrè M. Pietroschek
Sun May 24 19:35:31 2009

Greetings,

I came in from the home of the underdogs, wreckage of a page by now. Oh it feels like nostalgia...

My regards

AMP

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Andrew Wright
Mon May 25 00:25:08 2009

Dark, I'm the moderator of the Fabled Lands group - I'll try and get your membership approved ASAP. I think I can send an invite to your email address for you to join. Anyway, when I get some free time, I'll start sending you the PDF files also. cheers Andy

Dark
Mon May 25 07:53:44 2009

Thanks very much, either or both of those would be great. As a major exploration fan, the series deffinately sounded like my sort of thing.

Interestingly enough, on Wikipedia there was a quotation from the creator saying that he'd considder making a web based version of the books. It's a shame that hasn't materialized as yet, sinse not only would that be an incredibly good thing in general, but also obviously it'd make things exceptionally good on the accessibility end of things, as in fact the one or two exploration based online games, ----- Age of fable and Sryth, have in fact been.

Never mind though, I'll look forward to trying the books out.

all the best,

Dark.

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