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.
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?
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… 😉
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.
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?
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… 😉
They're playing on a Spectrum, so they're automatically a winner! #Speccy4lyf 😁
Now _that's_ a horror story! 😀
So much fun!
Thank you, Liz! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Ah that was SO fun! Makes me miss the old "Choose your own adventure" books!
Thank yooooawoooo!
This is a really cool concept, well executed!
That was fun!
Awooo! 💜💜💜
didn’t see the meet-cute coming haha
Awooo? 🐾
Awoooooo~!
Awooooooo! 💜