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To me the greatest author of these types of books is Steve Jackson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_(British_game_designer) https://en.wikipedia.or

by harryf 8y ago

To me the greatest author of these types of books is Steve Jackson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_(British_game_designer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_(British_game_de... ) who worked on the Fighting Fantasy books and the amazing Sorcery series ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson%27s_Sorcery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson%27s_Sorcery! - HN URL parser breaks on this link - add the ! at the end ) His greatest book IMO was Creature of Havoc ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_of_Havoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_of_Havoc ) - as a 12 year old I took me and a friend of mine several months to finally complete - it had game elements which made it very hard to cheat.

dunham 8y ago
You can replace the ! with a %21 and the parser will handle it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson%27s_Sorcery%21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson%27s_Sorcery%21 Inkle studios did an interesting adaptation for the Sorcery series for mobile. Their games feel a little closer to CYOA than traditional interactive fiction: https://inklestudios.com/sorcery/ https://inklestudios.com/sorcery/ They've also open-sourced a markdown format for CYOA games along with a compiler to json and an engine to execute it: https://github.com/inkle/ink https://github.com/inkle/ink
- StavrosK 8y ago
  I really like those games, I got all of them and they feel very immersive to play. I would recommend them wholeheartedly.
  - Boulth 8y ago
    I agree. I got the first Sorcery game for free when it was available and frankly I didn't imagine me playing it (text only game didn't look good) but after 15 minutes I was completely immersed. I bought the rest of the series and spent weeks replaying them with various choices. For me now they are the best original mobile games I've ever played (and I buy a lot of stuff).
    - StavrosK 8y ago
      That's exactly my experience as well, I never really play mobile games but Sorcery! had me hooked.
Tomte 8y ago
BTW, Sorcery is available for iOS, and it's a great implementation.

by harryf 8y ago

dunham 8y ago

You can replace the ! with a %21 and the parser will handle it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson%27s_Sorcery%21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson%27s_Sorcery%21 Inkle studios did an interesting adaptation for the Sorcery series for mobile. Their games feel a little closer to CYOA than traditional interactive fiction: https://inklestudios.com/sorcery/ https://inklestudios.com/sorcery/ They've also open-sourced a markdown format for CYOA games along with a compiler to json and an engine to execute it: https://github.com/inkle/ink https://github.com/inkle/ink

StavrosK 8y ago
I really like those games, I got all of them and they feel very immersive to play. I would recommend them wholeheartedly.
- Boulth 8y ago
  I agree. I got the first Sorcery game for free when it was available and frankly I didn't imagine me playing it (text only game didn't look good) but after 15 minutes I was completely immersed. I bought the rest of the series and spent weeks replaying them with various choices. For me now they are the best original mobile games I've ever played (and I buy a lot of stuff).
  - StavrosK 8y ago
    That's exactly my experience as well, I never really play mobile games but Sorcery! had me hooked.

Tomte 8y ago

BTW, Sorcery is available for iOS, and it's a great implementation.