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May 10, 2013
Kickstarter Picks: Holdfast
By Nadia Oxford
The '80s blessed us with big hair, over-synthesized music, and beautiful role-playing gamebooks from publishers like Lone Wolf, Fighting Fantasy, and Fabled Lands. For the sake of our children, these books and their illustrations of orcs, dwarves, and busty elf women must survive in this modern era. Happily, Black Chicken Games has launched a Kickstarter for Holdfast, a gamebook that's bound for PC, Android, Mac, and print.
News
June 11, 2012
The many adventures of Gamebook Adventures [interview]
By Jim Squires
Everyone loves to snuggle up with a good book. The only real downside is that books, by their very nature, are terribly one-sided experience. Wouldn't a story be much more engaging if it were interactive? If, instead of passively reading about someone else's adventure, you could actually play a part in your own?
News
May 25, 2012
Fighting Fantasy is going mobile courtesy of Gamebook Adventures creator Tin Man Games
By Josh Wittenkeller
Back in the 80's, videogames were nothing more than simple arcade-style adventures with pixel-heavy models. But before videogames had any of the required components to for telling compelling story, including realistic graphics, voice acting, and solid writing, adventure seekers with an active imagination could jump into an interactive story anytime they wanted to via gamebooks.

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