Watch Out for Fireballs! 95: Game Books
Watch Out for Fireballs!
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🗓️ 5 March 2015
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross venture forth to discuss game books, choose your own adventures, and Steve Jackson's Sorcery!
What is game? It's any interactive experience that has both failure states and a success state. By that reasoning, game books are games. Also, it's in the name. This special episode is all about non-video interactive narratives, books with branching paths and mechanics.
We cover the Bantam Choose Your Own Adventure Books, Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, Steve Jackson's Sorcery!, the Goosebumps Choose Your Own Scare, and more. For as nostalgic as this topic is, there's a surprising connection between these books and the current crop of narrative-driven games we play today.
LINKS OF NOTE:
[You Chose Wrong](youchosewrong.tumblr.com/)
[Clickventure](www.clickhole.com/clickventure/mys…ow-island-1880#2,)
[Quest for Glory](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Glory)
[Gamebook Archives](www.gamebooks.org/)
[The Two Jakes](www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbiQAr8miI)
[Black Bug Room](marvel.wikia.com/Black_Bug_Room)
[Lonewolf Online](www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books)
[Mormon Afterlife](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_glory)
[All My Circuits](theinfosphere.org/All_My_Circuits)
[Sexist Xanth books](www.avclub.com/article/revisitin…y-of-xanth-104382)
[@dril](twitter.com/dril)
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| 1:00.0 | Oh, well. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, well. You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. |
| 1:05.0 | If you choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. |
| 1:10.0 | If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. |
| 1:15.0 | You can choose from phantom beers and kind |
| 1:20.0 | and sad to go. |
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| 1:29.0 | Turn to page 67 if you want to hear Cole Ross. |
| 1:32.0 | Or turn back to page 1 to hear me say, |
| 1:35.0 | my name is Gary Butterfield. |
| 1:37.0 | And my name is Cole Ross. |
| 1:39.0 | And you are listening to, I was hoping we just loop it there for a little bit. |
| 1:42.0 | The, uh, this is a very special episode of Watch Our |
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