Well, I may as well say that I'm going through Phantoms of Fear, 1 of my personal favs. Anything with vast dreamscapes, the warping of reality, surrealistic events, and all that, really interests me. I don't believe any of the locally written stories feature that sort of content

duffmeister
Sat Aug 23 10:45:09 2008
Midnight Deep

Does 'Midnight Deep' have multiple endings (ie: can you be a champion of balance)?

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tongu
Mon Aug 25 14:20:26 2008
General Chat

Just curious here, will there be anymore gamebooks being written?

duffmeister
Mon Aug 25 16:30:50 2008
General Chat

Yep, I'm writing one, a prequel to 'Beneath Nightmare Castle.'

khaxzan
Mon Aug 25 18:30:16 2008
Publicity

www.onyxprophecies.com fighting fantasy quizzes

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Vallaska
Tue Aug 26 00:32:30 2008
General Chat

When playing the gamebooks on this site recently, I've occasionally been forced to abandon an adventure due to its sudden breaking down when I move from one reference to another - the screen, rather than doing its usual immediate change from one paragraph to the next, instead turns black and appears to be taking a long time to load the next page, which never appears. I have seen this happen recently on various computers, and am wondering whether anyone else has experienced this, or else some bizarre curse has been placed on me as an individual, rendering me completely unable to ever successfully complete one of these gamebooks. Whatever the case, I'm hoping there's some way it can be solved. I'm sure others will agree that it is very annoying to be playing one of these brilliant gamebooks and suddenly find that you have to repeat it from the beginning, knowing that your adventure in fact did not legitimately end.
Other than that, although I think I signed the guestbook a while ago saying this, I would just like to mention how much I enjoy these online adventures. Although there are many I have not yet attempted, the ones I have I have found wonderfully atmospheric, complementing many different adventurous feels. I think two of my favourites have to be House of horror and Bodies in the Docks - the atmosphere of the latter I found particularly chilling when i successfully played it about a year ago.

duffmeister
Tue Aug 26 09:31:57 2008
General Chat

Have you tried refreshing the page when this happens, Vallaska? Alternatively, use your 'History' to find the bit just before the glitch happened and try it again.

I have so far failed to complete House of Horror, but I definitely agree with what you said about 'Bodies in the Docks'.

Oh, yeah, does anyone know where the sequel will be set?

Vallaska
Tue Aug 26 22:02:30 2008
General Chat

Thanks for the advice Duffmeister. although it seems often to be the case that going back to the bit before the glitch will still lead to it happening in the same place, this has helped to dispatch the glitch and continue the adventure in just as many instances as well.

In regards to the Bodies in the Docks sequel, I didn't know there was one in the works? Is there anywhere I can find out more about this?

Kee
Wed Aug 27 12:40:16 2008
The Diamond Key

I'm currently playing The Diamond Key, could someone tell me any ways I could beat....

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Kee
Wed Aug 27 12:59:25 2008
The Diamond Key

ok, never mind, i found the...

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Ulysses Ai
Wed Aug 27 23:36:40 2008
The Diamond Key

Kee:

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Kee
Thu Aug 28 02:28:19 2008
The Diamond Key

Oh......ok, thanks Ulysses

duffmeister
Sat Aug 30 09:11:47 2008
General Chat

How long on average does a 400 ref gamebook take you guys to write?

Ulysses Ai
Sat Aug 30 10:50:41 2008
General Chat

Writing times for my gamebooks:

The Diamond key took me six months to write (and was indirectly responsible for me failing some of my subjects that semester :P )
WWGB took only a few days.
Based on my work between these extremes, it seems the amount of time for gamebooks is an exponential rather than linear relationship. That is: a 100-reference gamebook will not take twice as long as a 50-reference gamebook; but much longer. Of course, the complexity of the game system and story path are other factors.
In general, I would say that a 400-reference gamebook of normal format would take about a couple of months of actual writing time (working an hour or two for 60 days). This would exclude the planning stage, which will vary in duration according to the idea itself. 'Normal format' means no complex rules, and standard passage lengths.

Perhaps my answer in the end is: it depends. Which I know isn't very helpful. If you are asking this question to assess your own production rate, I would say you are quite slow (too many gamebooks all at once?); but then again, it could be well worth the wait. :)

Gaetano
Sat Aug 30 23:59:25 2008
General Chat

As I remember, I spent about three months on House of Horror . My current book...well, I guess you could say it took me 6 years.

I began right after HOH. That was a mistake, because I quickly got burned out. I completed about 120 sections, hit a massive case of writers block, put my folder in a closet and forgot about it.

In February, I decided to have another go. I spent 5 months writing the rest of it, and the last month typing it up. I'm almost finished.

I agree with Ulysses. Duffmeister, if you have several ideas, just concentrate on finishing one gamebook and put it out there.

tongu Wed Sep 3 02:43:10 2008 General Chat	Has anyone ever heard of the Horror of Craggen Rock and the Forest of Dreams? These are online FF gamebooks and can be found on the Tales of Yore website
	Anyone who has looked at the links page of this site in the last couple of years will have heard of these gamebooks. I suspect they are very well known indeed by now as Nathan Page's site has existed for such a long time, it certainly predates this one by several years. You may be interested in reading this review of his gamebooks : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gamebooks/message/4879.

tongu
Wed Sep 3 04:00:01 2008
General Chat

Sorry, I mean Yaztromo's Tales of Yore website

Kee
Wed Sep 3 04:12:49 2008
General Chat

The gamebook i'm working on took me about 4 months to write and I'm now typing it up.

Ulysses Ai
Wed Sep 3 08:29:16 2008
General Chat

A couple of people have mentioned 'writing' their gamebook and then 'typing it up'. Do people actually still write things on paper?

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