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Friday 25 January 2019
Vortrag über spielbücher
Last summer, Jamie and I met up with Paul Mason at Manticon in Germany. You knew that, because I posted about it already. Here's the second talk we gave, on gamebook history and design.
07m 41s: Media outrage about gamebooks as too scary for kids
11m 31s: The Lord of Shadow Keep, originally planned as a Fighting Fantasy book
13m 27s: The Way of the Tiger
17m 22s: Blood Sword
19m 24s: 1980s roleplaying in the world of Tekumel
22m 30s: Fighting Fantasy books by Paul Mason
31m 22s: Robin of Sherwood gamebooks
33m 12s: Heart of Ice
36m 10s: Duel Master
39m 33s: Inspiration for the Fabled Lands
42m 14s: The art of Russ Nicholson
43m 52s: The Keep of the Lich Lord
46m 28s: Fantasy maps by Leo Hartas
51m 01s: Frankenstein
53m 34s: Gamebooks in which you aren't the hero
54m 33s: Can You Brexit (Without Breaking Britain)?
1h 06m 05s: Early days of Games Workshop
1h 11m 51s: Steam Highwayman
1h 38m 09s: On not writing down to kids
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Das soll ich mir später anhören !
ReplyDeleteDave, do you follow the Fabled Lands 7 kickstarter updates?
ReplyDeleteI don't get to see the updates directly, but somebody has sent me the latest one. Paul Gresty put a dignified and measured response to it on Facebook, and I don't think I can add anything to what he said.
DeleteReally interesting Dave, thanks for sharing. Lovely to see Paul speaking too - he's far too bashful about just how creative his FF books were.
ReplyDeleteQuote of the interview: "acupuncture on the brain"!
Oh, Michael... Now I need to go through the whole talk and see who said that, and why :-)
DeleteVery interesting, I watched most of it.
ReplyDeleteYes, I still remember this passage of the "Talisman" (and even the French translation did not water it down). As young teenagers, we just felt this "violence" not as "actual" violence to repeat on others but rather like children who scare themselves and others during Halloween. I had written, in my comprehensive school, a gamebook taking place in a post-apocalyptic version of that school where your task was to survive, fighting teachers who had turned insane. Adults were horrified at it, but we teenagers just had a lot of fun and never attacked teachers for real.
Same here. As a kid I read lots of ultra-violent fiction -- and wrote it, too -- but I would never dream of harming somebody IRL.
DeleteThis is a rare treat for us gamebook enthusiasts, Dave. I particularly enjoyed "somebody lobs something at Dave" (1124), "Dave surreptitiously checks notes" (1532) and "Dave does Lich Lord impression" (4412).
ReplyDeleteA reminder watching that middle one that it's high time I got bifocals, Andy!
DeleteWas Frankenstein ever on Android? The Inkle page here:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.inklestudios.com/frankenstein/
implies it but I can't find this anywhere.
They did an Android version but it didn't work properly so was quickly withdrawn. There is an EPUB3 version that works with e-readers that have Javascript enabled:
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That's lovely, thank you!
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