Open Source Gamebook Reader: The Gamebook Engine

[winterknight]

I wrote a free and open source gamebook engine, called "The Gamebook Engine". Here is it's homepage: www.freegameengines.org/gamebook-engine/

The Gamebook Engine uses the same format as the Hyena Audiogame player: projectaon.proboards30.com/index.cgi?board=generalsoftware&action=display&thread=1276 . I originally had my own xml-based format, but before I started programming The Gamebook Engine, I discovered Hyena, and liked the format. The gamebook community needs less formats, not more (we probably have more than half as many formats as we do books).

I would like to include Flight From the Dark with my game engine. I realize that in order to do that, I would need to host the download on the Project Aon Servers. May I do that? I also realize that in order to distribute Jens' 01fftd.gamebook file, I would need to get his permission as well. I will ask Jens directly after (if) I get permission to host my project download on the Project Aon servers.

[alderaine]

Hi Brandon

Hopefully you saw my reply to the original mail, but if not here it is...

We'll be delighted to have you onboard with AON.

Jon looks after setting up accounts, and I'm sure will pick that up as soon as he is able so that you can start hosting here.

In the meantime, please do feel free to carry on working on the project.

The best place to talk about your project is on the AON Forums - Thomas will set up a sub-forum for you if you like.

We're currently working (slowly) on the Common Navigation Files project. This will being together all the information needed to navigate through the books (i.e. abilities/items needed to turn to pages, etc) into the core AON XML files. Once that is done, the next project on the table is to work on a standard XML-based bookreader which would work on as many platforms as possible (targetting the web first so we can have a fully interactive version of the books up & running online.)

It should be a relatively straightforward exercise to convert the XML files into other formats if needed in the future.

Good luck with the project, and shout if you need any further support

James