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RetroReadingTime wrote: I ordered the first two Adventure gamebooks (from the Fantail series). I honestly have no idea what they are like, but I would assume they are similar to choose-your-own-adventure type books, but with an interactive element of some sort (maybe you use dice?). I really don't know.

Admittedly, I have been wanting to take a crack at converting some choose-your-own-adventure books, but these might not be the right books to figure out the logistics of it. If Amazon's info is to be believed, these books are 200+ pages a piece, which is a lot for something I haven't figured out how to do yet. I'm looking into how to make pages non-linear (pages that are only accessable through internal links), so I might pick something considerably shorter as my first go... that way it would be considerably less of a nightmare if I mess something up and have to figure out how to fix it.

On a side note, I'm pretty excited about the Adventure gamebooks. The ones I got are written by James Wallis, who wrote (under the pseudonym "Martin Adams") two of the UK Sonic novels (StH in the Fourth Dimension and StH and the Silicon Warriors). I have thoroughly enjoyed his Sonic stuff so far, so I'm looking forward to reading more of it. Gamebooks are my favourate kinda reads.

You'll need a pencil, rubber and a six sided dice for play though. In fact, print this image out and use it as a bookmark. I used a homemade bookmark that doubled as my vital statistics while playing the game.