Just found this site guys and im blown away! Been on a FF nostalgia trip and am loving revisiting my major childhood hobby. A ny contacts to colin_oaten1@hotmail.co.uk

Gaetano
Mon Jul 14 16:23:31 2008
Soul Tracker

Thanks for the encouragement, Josh.

Ulysses Ai
Mon Jul 14 06:42:55 2008
Planet Of The Spiders

I suppose that's mostly true

However, regarding PotS:
If you follow the right path, even a LUCK of 7 will not prevent victory. Preserving LUCK was the other 'interesting game mechanism' I included in PotS. Originally there was another statistic that was akin to FEAR in House of Hell/Horror. But I decided to just use LUCK penalties instead.

Following the correct path also makes the final confrontation an almost-even contest for a SKILL 7 character. Furthermore:

SPOILER

END SPOILER

Thus low-stat charcacters will only find the going difficult if they stray from the correct path.

Haoie
Mon Jul 14 01:49:06 2008
Planet Of The Spiders

Wrong way, obviously, had a frantically paced atmosphere, charged with suspense, due to the whole time limit. It was quite easy to complete with low statistics. Spiders, on the other hand, is far more laid back, at times off the way humerous - think sandwiches, and a lot more unforgiving when it comes to statistics, especially luck. And that's what comes to mind at the moment.

Ulysses Ai
Sun Jul 13 08:41:16 2008
Planet Of The Spiders

The sci-fi series (as yet unnamed) of which WWGB and PotS are part was originally conceived as a series of short, yet difficult adventures each with an interesting game mechanism. WWGB has a time limit, and PotS has sandwiches. The 'interesting game mechanism' didn't really work in PotS as the story grew beyond its original scope. It worked to an even lesser extent in the 3rd installment: The Golden Crate (completed, but going through checking) which was originally supposed to feature a disposable blaster with only five shots. When you chose to use them would determine the path of the story. But this story grew beyond its original scope as well, and was in danger of becoming a full-length gamebook before it was finished.
With episode 4 The Hypertrout (also going through checking) I managed to bring things back to 60-odd references and include a game mechanism that I can't describe without giving things away.
The remaing episodes: Contractual Obligation, Return to G15-275, and Voyage of the Profiteer are yet to be written, but will each feature an interesting game mechanism, and bonuses for playing the previoius titles in the series.
The main theme of this series is your quest to get a girlfriend, a task which requires you to save multiple planets in the galaxy before you suceed.

Josh
Sat Jul 12 16:52:57 2008
Soul Tracker

Gaetano,

YAY!!!

I can't wait!!!

Gaetano
Fri Jul 11 23:48:52 2008
Soul Tracker

Since we're on the subject of announcing new gamebooks, I might as well spring my own bit of news. I've just completed a new, 400 section gamebook called "Soul Tracker." I'm quite excited about it. It's currently hand written in a notebook, so I'm in the process of typing the whole thing out and doing some final editing. It will take me at least a month (perhaps 2) to have it finalized, but when I do, I will submit it to the site for the 'downloads' section.

It's completely different from House of Horror, actually its different from any gamebook I've ever read (and I've read quite a few). I won't give much away, at any rate it's rather difficult to describe. It's a rather strange hybrid of detective noir / horror / cyberpunk / western. Yeah, weird, but hopefully in a good way.

duffmeister
Fri Jul 11 16:10:16 2008
General Chat

Nice, will the series have a common theme (Apart from the main character)?

Just finished 'Shadowcaster' by Stuart Lloyd, however, I doubt Stuart wants me leaking secrets, so I can smugly know heaps of stuff you don't and keep quiet (hee hee hee...) suffice to say it's very good, featuring...oops, sorry, I'd better not give anything away. Anyway, Ullyses, good luck with book 3!

Ulysses Ai
Fri Jul 11 10:01:17 2008
Planet Of The Spiders

Incidently, everyone, WWGB and PotS comprise 2 of an 8-part series. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Ulysses Ai
Fri Jul 11 09:57:44 2008
Planet Of The Spiders

Haoie:

You mentioned that: "...Planet of the Spiders. It seems to have a significantly different tone than the earlier Wrong Way."

Can you explain more about your experience of this gamebook (and WWGB)?

Haoie
Mon Jul 7 01:52:14 2008
General Chat

Yes, FF37 does give a good amount of detail into the lake itself and the surrounding area. There's even a colour map at the front of the book. FF37 is personally one of my favs.

duffmeister
Fri Jul 4 17:14:42 2008
General Chat

Does FF37 (Portal of Evil) give any info on lake Mlubz and the surrounding area?

Stuart Lloyd
Fri Jul 4 14:53:53 2008
General Chat

Sorry to hear about the spam too.

Is it possible to have a forum on this website? Then we can have different sections for each thing. Also, it may stop spam.

Maybe I was unnecessarily pessimistic before, the previous spammer seems to have gone quiet now (or else I am successfully filtering it out). I now have the means to more thoroughly delete messages (you may have noticed that the number of messages has decreased), so any recurrence of the situation where only a few messages were visible should only be temporary.

Construction and especially maintenance of a forum is something that I do not have time for. Furthermore, I suspect that keeping a forum spam-free is a far harder task than doing it for a simple guestbook. Certainly they all seem to need an army of moderators to keep them tidy.

duffmeister Wed Jul 2 19:52:35 2008 General Chat	Sorry to hear about the spam, Andy!
	Thanks. As you can (at the time of writing) see, I've cleared up some of it.

duffmeister Wed Jul 2 16:00:25 2008 General Chat	Whoa, man! weirdness is engulfing the guestbook with its writhing tendrils. Sorry Testing, but there's not even 6 messages any more! 4 alone!
	There's no weirdness - just a lot of deleted messages. The problem is spam, and there seems to be quite a lot of it all of a sudden. Hopefully the situation is not unsalvageable, but there is the distinct possibility in future that all messages will have to be inspected before they appear.

Testing
Wed Jul 2 10:58:29 2008
General Chat

Something weird is happening to this guestbook.
It says messages 1065 to 1084 are displayed, but can only see 6.

(Just seeing what happens when I submit a message. This message can be deleted)

duffmeister
Tue Jul 1 11:24:58 2008
General Chat

Sadly so, however there are several online encyclopedias on Fighting Fantasy, which include some info on the area, them, Titan and the FF books themselves give some info, then Stuart and I have extrapolated the rest.

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