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Yeah they were great! I had a reasonable collection of these, and I remember on subsequent playthroughs trying to "forget" what was the correct way forward and
by jfoucher 7y ago
Yeah they were great! I had a reasonable collection of these, and I remember on subsequent playthroughs trying to "forget" what was the correct way forward and trying to play it as if it was the first time. Or trying all the possible combinations until I had read every page in the book!
- Psyladine 7y agoWarlock of Fire Mountain had an interesting twist re: memorization in that there was an actual maze embedded in it. I remember putting together a 'logic map' for a scripting language in order to generate CYOAs, but never went anywhere with it. I wanted to have things like dependent choices on starting items affecting page turns and so forth. With only 400 items as a 'limit' to gamebook memory it was an interesting challenge!
- larnmar 7y agoMan, other people played these books with way more discipline than I did. I don’t think I ever made it all the way through a book playing “properly”. Oh, I died? Okay, let’s just assume I didn’t...