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Monday, 19 December 2011

Reviews and tigers and gamebooks, oh my!

In the most perfect team-up since Simon said whassup to Garfunkel, gamebook experts Andrew Wright and Stuart Lloyd have got together to create Lone Tiger Gamebooks, a review site that will especially cover the more obscure and/or amateur gamebooks that you might otherwise not get to hear about.

There are lots of hidden gems out there, and thanks to Stuart and Andy there's now more chance of finding them. Their blog depends on volunteer reviewers, of course, so if you have a favourite gamebook (classic or contemporary, famous or unknown) that you're willing to write about, why not drop them a line?
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8 comments:

  1. Anonymous19 December 2011 at 11:23

    Fantastic news, I can't wait to see what they dig up.

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  2. Anonymous21 December 2011 at 18:59

    And this is much better than Damian's site www.gamebooks.org because of, what exactly?

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  3. Dave Morris22 December 2011 at 00:16

    Lighten up, Anon. Demian's (not Damian's) site is awesome. I'm just mentioning what Andy and Stuart are doing coz it's new, they both have very interesting things to say about gamebooks, and they need support from volunteer reviewers. You don't have to pick a team.

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  4. fantasygamebook22 December 2011 at 06:59

    Looks like we better get started on putting some posts together!

    Just to echo what Dave said: we're certainly not competing with Demian and in fact we'll be linking liberally to the amazing info and reviews already on Demian's brilliant site.

    The main goal behind Lone Tiger was to look at amateur or obscure gamebooks that we think are worth further consideration.

    cheers

    Andy

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  5. Jayz22 December 2011 at 15:34

    The clue is in the line "a review site that will especially cover the more obscure and/or amateur gamebooks that you might otherwise not get to hear about." But Anon hates having to read lots of text, having had his/her ire piqued with the recent post on the Frankenstein book app. (On the plus side, he/she has written some great poetry.)

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  6. Dave Morris22 December 2011 at 18:32

    I'd rather hear from Alan Smithee now and again, I must admit :-)

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  7. Stuart Lloyd22 December 2011 at 22:43

    Thanks for the plug Dave and just to add another echo, we are not competing with Demien's very comprehensive site. The main aim is to get more publicity for and discussion of great gamebooks that few people know of.

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  8. Stuart Lloyd27 December 2011 at 19:35

    Hi all! Our first Lone Tiger review is up. It is Beggars of Blacksand by Al Sander. http://lonetigerreviews.blogspot.com/2011/12/beggars-of-blacksand-by-al-sander.html

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