tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post523685482465180236..comments2024-03-29T07:35:51.362+00:00Comments on Fabled Lands: That's my monsterDave Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-90275307974186692082013-09-25T15:27:58.538+01:002013-09-25T15:27:58.538+01:00Wrt Coils of Hate and Green Blood - ahem, see abov...Wrt Coils of Hate and Green Blood - ahem, see above under "nightmare". Those books caused at least one editor to exile himself across the water. When I've regenerated enough hit points, I'll dive in and try fixing them myself. Maybe. One day. Not till I've reissued Blood Sword, though.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-53384578474227023902013-09-25T15:25:21.619+01:002013-09-25T15:25:21.619+01:00I am thinking about doing Kindle versions of the G...I am thinking about doing Kindle versions of the Golden Dragon books when I get time. I might just do one as an experiment to begin with - they won't work as well as the Critical IF books in that format because of all the dice-rolling you have to do.<br /><br />I'm sorry to say we won't be doing iBooks editions of the GD books for various reasons, the most telling of which is that the tools were a nightmare to use and gave me RSI! And we can't put artwork into the iBooks versions, so I think iOS/Android apps make more sense. We do intend to do those, by early next year I hope.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-69512683595214479182013-09-25T09:46:51.635+01:002013-09-25T09:46:51.635+01:00Great! :-) Any chance to see Golden Dragon iBook-V...Great! :-) Any chance to see Golden Dragon iBook-Versions, too?<br />And what about the two remaining "Virtual Reality"-books?<br />Any release date planned for them?<br />i own all your old original versions and remember Coils of Hate was quite buggy...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-75193765933866254332013-09-25T08:05:56.038+01:002013-09-25T08:05:56.038+01:00Hi AJ, we are aiming for as many platforms as poss...Hi AJ, we are aiming for as many platforms as possible. So there will be Kindle versions of all four, an iBooks edition (hopefully - I sweated blood for months working on those!) and even iOS and Android apps. You'll have to wait a couple of months for the apps, but the ebooks should be ready in time for the official launch date in October.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-85079856270388154532013-09-25T07:53:11.834+01:002013-09-25T07:53:11.834+01:00Hi Dave,
will all Critical IF Gamebooks be availa...Hi Dave,<br /><br />will all Critical IF Gamebooks be available as kindle editions or maybe also for ibooks on ios?<br /><br />Thanks<br />AJ<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-21895126658043544802013-09-25T00:08:11.094+01:002013-09-25T00:08:11.094+01:00Me too, Stuart. Games have enormous potential for ...Me too, Stuart. Games have enormous potential for hands-on learning. For example, by actually playing a wargame of the Cuban revolution I understood the tactics employed by Castro much better than I could have gleaned from a history book. In an interactive simulation you actually get to alter the variables & see what effect that has - on politics, or history, or literature, or whatever.<br /><br />The idea is, in effect, to apply principles of roleplaying and interactivity to learning as they have been to entertainment. Thought experiments in gamebook form. Jamie and I long ago considered doing something like that with a history book where you would get to create characters in somewhere like the Roman empire to see the different life-choices that social class & nationality affected.<br /><br />I ought to add that education was the last thing on my mind when I was writing Frankenstein, though. It can indeed be used as a kind of study guide to the original text, but all I was aiming to do was to tell a good story!Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-41932510287615319702013-09-24T21:54:00.181+01:002013-09-24T21:54:00.181+01:00A conversation with the narrative. This sort of e...A conversation with the narrative. This sort of ethic would make Frankenstein perfect for analysing the text for English A level, especially since the core events don't change (so that you won't leave the reader with the wrong idea of the story). This sort of interacting with the narrative could also branch out into history or geography, where you live the life of someone at the time/place/event specified, get to talk to key people and understand the reasons behind their thinking. Was Truman right to drop the H-bombs on Japan? Be one of his top advisors and talk to the people there about what they were thinking. Should all of the UK's power have stations be decomissioned? Talk to the people who have an opinion. Why did Hamlet not kill Claudius when he had the chance? Did he flake at the last minute or did he think that the word of an apparition was too flimsy a reason to kill someone? Or did he actually not want to kill him while he was praying? I'm excited to see how far this style of interactive fiction can go.Stuart Lloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15100216520313336932noreply@blogger.com