There I was last week finding my way around Duncan Thomson's Rand Roll site, and the next thing you know I'm being interviewed. You may feel you've heard it all before, especially if you've long been an habitué of this blog, but go as well for insightful interviews with Jonathan Green, Martin Noutch, Mike Shea, our own Mr Thomson, and many other interesting folk.
Coming up tomorrow, we've got -- well, here's a clue:
I've just heard about a great resource for gamebook fans: thirty-one themes in the medium, from horror to SF to modern to non-fantasy. Duncan Thomson's (no relation to Jamie as far as I know) in-depth post covers hundreds of different gamebook series both classic and modern. Check it out on Rand Roll here.
And if you want to write your own gamebook, Stuart Lloyd has compiled an invaluable reading list to get you started. And trawling through some old posts here (such as this one) might also prove inspiring. I also find it useful to listen to Hieronymus J Doom's perceptive analyses of gamebooks on the Haunted Phonograph and Ed Jolley's Adventure Gameblog.
Talking of gamebooks, have you been keeping up with Prime Games' development reports on the CRPG version of Blood Sword? The latest concerns my favourite character class to write, the Trickster:
"The Warrior holds the line. The Enchanter bends the arcane. The Sage unveils hidden truths. The Trickster thrives where no one else dares -- in shadows, in whispers, in the thin places between honour and survival. Assassin, Knave, Hunter, or something in between, the Trickster proves that guile can be sharper than steel."
Read more about the Blood Sword CRPG and add it to your Steam wishlist here.
By chance I just came across an interview with Jamie. These are few and far between, so worth a look even though it's very short. Much of it covers the same ground as Jamie's talk at FFF 5 but there are some extra details too.
And there's also important news about another of my co-writers, Oliver Johnson of Dragon Warriors and Lightbringer fame. The Bookseller has just announced that his conspiracy thriller novel Caller Unknown is due for publication next year. I've read it and it's great. Now I've got my fingers crossed for his (even better) fantasy novel The Knight of the Fields.
