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Hobbes's avatar

Substack cruelly crashed whenever I tried to comment last week. I have returned this week just to try and say:

Such fun!

Well done on persevering on what I imagine was a bit of a fiddly time of it with hyperlinks. Add to it the fact that you didn't even know it would work, and I can only applaud your persistence. I whipped out the trusty work laptop in order to read because my phone insisted on reopening the app whenever I clicked a link in Chrome.

The second person narrative always gives me a bonus nostalgia vibe. Not just for the CYOA books, but I also played a lot of text adventures as a kid and spent many hours being told, "You are in a maze of twisty passages," or "You have been eaten by a true!", or "You give the ring to Thorin'", so it's always nice to see the perspective in use.

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Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

Thanks Hobbes! Yeah, it was pretty fiddly to do, and the forcing of the anchor system is very hacky so I can imagine it ended up pretty quirky on some phones 🙁 thanks for persevering! I might write to Substack about this too see if they can improve the situation.

I could never get anywhere with The Hobbit game, but I didn't know the story at all. I wonder if I'd do better now?

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Hobbes's avatar

If it makes you feel slightly better, I lapped up the book as a kid (one of my “this is what got me into reading” examples) but still couldn't get anywhere in the game. I've since seen a speedrun where someone completes it in about 4 seconds by using a bug. But then, they did do it on a Spectrum so it's hard to consider them a winner… 😉

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Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

They're playing on a Spectrum, so they're automatically a winner! #Speccy4lyf 😁

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Hobbes's avatar

Now _that's_ a horror story! 😀

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Liz Zimmers's avatar

So much fun!

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Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

Thank you, Liz! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

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Jade Eby's avatar

Ah that was SO fun! Makes me miss the old "Choose your own adventure" books!

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Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

Thank yooooawoooo!

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Jennifer Peaslee's avatar

This is a really cool concept, well executed!

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Rosie B's avatar

That was fun!

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Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

Awooo! 💜💜💜

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EJ Trask's avatar

didn’t see the meet-cute coming haha

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Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

Awooo? 🐾

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Hope Amyver's avatar

Awoooooo~!

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Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

Awooooooo! 💜

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