A look in the game design of choose-your-own-adventure books

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 20:51:15 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
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"This is a choose your own adventure book that originally belonged to my big
sister. For those who don't speak Finnish, the book is called The Haunted
Railway Book
 and it uses the characters from Enid Blyton's Famous Five,
which is a well known series of adventure books for children (or maybe YA,
don't know, I haven't actually read any of them).

The game itself is fairly involved. Instead of just doing random choices you
have multiple items like a map and a compass that you can obtain and lose
during the game and even hit points that are visualised as, obviously, food. I
figured it might be interesting to work out how the game has been designed.
Like all adventure game books the story has been split into different numbered
chapters and you progress in the story by going from one chapter to another
according to the rules."

Via Rixty Dixet.

Share and enjoy,
               *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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