tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post7523573220051532897..comments2024-03-27T21:18:33.034+00:00Comments on Fabled Lands: The black and the greenDave Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-16702285725429913142011-08-21T13:55:18.208+01:002011-08-21T13:55:18.208+01:00I'll check it out.I'll check it out.Hamzanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-68042234209446137282011-08-20T19:17:05.098+01:002011-08-20T19:17:05.098+01:00Must admit, Hamza, that I still haven't seen t...Must admit, Hamza, that I still haven't seen the movie, though it got a good write-up in Sight & Sound and is on my Lovefilm list. Another recommendation: Nick Whitfield's movie Skeletons.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-20851346607703919262011-08-20T07:31:14.864+01:002011-08-20T07:31:14.864+01:00My curiosity was piqued after reading this post, s...My curiosity was piqued after reading this post, so I went to Dunthorne's website, played the gamebook, and watched the film (which I thought was quite good, especially as Ayoade's directorial debut). Good stuff all around.Hamzanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-3707871992275937462011-08-19T09:56:47.561+01:002011-08-19T09:56:47.561+01:00You're right, Milk. One such book was Kim Newm...You're right, Milk. One such book was Kim Newman's Life's Lottery - which covered an entire life, so most of the paths through the book were pretty short. AFAIK Joe Dunthorne is the first to try an his hand at an "anti-gamebook" in the sense that your choices aren't really affecting the plot in any real sense. Obviously that's not a trick you can't pull very often.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-30197901904344417442011-08-18T23:37:01.790+01:002011-08-18T23:37:01.790+01:00It's an idea I've been toying with for a w...It's an idea I've been toying with for a while. Not that it hasnt been done even before this Aoyade fella (in fact the very first recorded instance of a book with multiple choices was erm..."straight literature") and definitely it's been done many times in amateur gamebooks that you can find for download on various sites, but I've been interested in the idea myself. I once started one that was mainly humoristic but that consisted in following someone that might or might not have been inspired by me (I'm vain and self-centered) in their daily routine. Of course the choices always led the player to unebeliveably ludicrous situations (though none was fantastical, just a little..unlikely) but it was a fun experiment it's just that at the time my heart wasn't fully into it enough.Milknoreply@blogger.com