Hi everyone,

Just wanted to thank Andy and encourage anyone with comments about Phobia or A Handful of Dust to post. I enjoy hearing what other people have to say and any kind honest feedback would be much appreciated :)

Duck
Thu Jan 14 20:33:35 2010

Zach-

I haven't played A Handful of Dust yet, but I recently finished Phobia. I hope you'll take this feedback in the spirit it's intended!

Good points- It's a really original concept and well used. I like the general horror feel of the book. The phobia system worked well.

Negative points- This is mostly a mechanical thing. I was less keen on the amount of random rolls in the book. I'm less bothered if you just get a non-lethal penalty if you fail, but for me there were a few too many "make a skill test or die" bits. That makes a book too random for my liking. It detracts too much from the skill of making the right decisions.

Hope that's useful!

Kekataag
Thu Jan 14 21:03:28 2010

@Zach:

In Handful of Dust, when you turn to section 10 near the beginning of the adventure, it seems somewhat disjointed, mainly because it mentions places and characters that haven't been mentioned before.

Is this an error on your part or how it is intended to be in the adventure?

Zach Carango
Fri Jan 15 01:23:36 2010

Thanks for the heads up Kekataag, that link is definitely messed up! I had some trouble scrambling the sections and thought I had caught all the errors. Sorry about that, I'll send a corrected version right away.

PS. The links to to should go to 62 instead.

Zach Carango
Fri Jan 15 01:58:57 2010

@duck

I decided rather late in writing to drop a health score (my idea was to make the game system as streamlined as possible). Had I left that stat in place, I think things would have been much more balanced.

Thanks for the advice!

Kekataag
Sun Jan 17 16:40:00 2010

Is "A Handful of Dust" going to have a sequel?

Zach
Sun Jan 17 19:07:48 2010

@ Kekataag

I left it open for a sequal because, in my opinion, this first adventure is a somewhat underdeveloped. That said, I only have a vague idea of where the next installment may go. If you have any suggestions based on what you've read, I'd be interested to hear them!

Jordan
Sun Jan 17 21:59:43 2010

Will Handfull of Dust eventually be put onto the online section of gamebooks?

Grampa Mon Feb 1 19:23:35 2010	So. how do I get to read a copy of my grandson's work? Dan davies (Zach's grumpa, also a fan of fantasy fiction....perhaps it's hereditary?)
	They are both here : http://www.ffproject.com/download.htm

Ulysses
Thu Feb 4 00:04:53 2010

Over the last week I've been playing the 80s adventure game series Space Quest on my computer. There are many similarities with the WWGB gamebook series... I wasn't thinking of Space Quest when I wrote it, but I think it must be have been an unconscious influence.
Anyway, all 6 episodes are available for download out there for those who remember this game.

Gaetano
Thu Feb 4 06:35:37 2010

Do you remember an arcade game called "Space Ace?" I remember it being different from other games in that it was quite cinematic. It was pretty humorous, in the same vein as WWGB. (There was another, fantasy based game as well, a D & D type of setting, by the same company).

Phil Sadler
Thu Feb 4 09:51:54 2010

Dragon's Lair! Ah ... I have both SA and DL on my DVD player :-)

Gaetano
Thu Feb 4 21:18:08 2010

The memories...

Ulysses
Fri Feb 5 01:42:16 2010

I never encountered Space Ace or Dragon's Lair during the 80s...
An interesting parallel is that Sierra, who developed Space Quest, also produced another fantasy-based adventure game called King's Quest. It's my intention to get onto that next...

Haoie
Sun Feb 7 04:14:47 2010

Those games were famous for 1 thing: Making them intentional unwinnable. Just check the TVTropes pages.

Zangolf and Ziminksi
Wed Mar 31 12:12:12 2010

We are your biggest fans, we play these games 24/7 and hope to complete them all before we die. We both really really enjoy playing on this website and it's now added to our favourites! Thank you so much for creating this for us and every other lover of this site. Many thanks, Zangolf and Ziminksi.

521 to 540 of 1604 | [next] [previous] | [first] [last]