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"Choose Your Own Adventure" On Your iPhone

Posted by samzenpus on from the turn-to-page-14 dept.

If you spent a good portion of your childhood reading the classic "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, you'll be glad to know that you can soon waste countless hours at work turning to random pages on your iPhone. Edward Packard, one of the original authors of the series, has helped create an app called U-Ventures which uses special effects to create a story in the traditional Choose Your Own Adventure format. From the article: "The first U-Venture is a sort of a sequel to a classic title, The Cave of Time. In 'Return to the Cave of Time,' the U-Venture, 'you go back in the cave — you don't have a choice on that,' Packard tells NPR's Neal Conan. But from that point on, the reader chooses her own course."

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  1. Wow, iPhone SPAM on Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ten years ago who would have believed Slashdot would turn into an Apple PR/SPAM site?

  2. Re:does it have a point in this medium? by cappp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yup. I've been rereading the old Lone Wolf gamebooks over at Project Aon which use the hypertext route really well. They've got a couple programs which let you run the books after download, all permitted under license of course, the one I'm enjoying using the most is Seventh Sense. It's a nice way of cutting down on the annoyances of using a book - keeping track of the math and the rules, losing your place - but there's something to be said for the charm of doing it oldschool.

  3. Get real interactive fiction by jewishbaconzombies · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get Frotz for the iPhone or iPad, and play real interactive fiction instead. The interface could use some help in the way it gets stories in / out, but I've been (re)-enjoying my infocom collection from my old "lost treasures of infocom" CDs on my mobile devices just fine (hint : keep safari handy and bookmark the support docs).

  4. Re:"Her" own course? by deniable · · Score: 1, Informative

    What is wrong with the word " their "?

    It's a plural and indicates that there is more than one reader making the decision. 'Its' is just as valid.

  5. Re:Oh, really by Homr+Zodyssey · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try "Kingdom of Loathing".

    http://www.kingdomofloathing.com./

  6. Been able to for ages by mccalli · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Deathtrap Dungeon are out in the iPhone now. I believe Citadel of Chaos is too, not entirely sure.

    I have the Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and the second Creature of Havoc comes out I'll be buying that one too.

    Cheers,
    Ian

  7. Re:"Her" own course? by julesh · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a plural and indicates that there is more than one reader making the decision.

    dictionary.com disagrees with you:

    their /ðr; unstressed ðr/ Show Spelled[thair; unstressed ther] Show IPA
    -pronoun
    [...]
    2 (used after an indefinite singular antecedent in place of the definite masculine form his or the definite feminine form her ): Someone left their book on the table.