Phone Apps (Books/Game)

[firestone]

I'm interested in all your experiences of the different phone app conversions for the books.
(Let me know if this is covered elsewhere)
Questions:
1. I've used the Kai Chronicles conversion of the first five books by LSI (I use android, unsure if ios apple available). It's easy, fast and glitch free. What's your opinion?
2. What is the Lone Wolf Saga by GDV like? While it has all original 12 books, I'm adverse to any 'free' app that then introduces purchases for saving profiles (the reviews make an issue out of it)
3. I adored the game made by ForgeReply and Joe Dever. Well executed and true in spirit and cannon in so many ways. I so hope they planned for another.
4.Questor gmbh's "Rise of the Darklords" appears to just be a conversion of the short game-story in the back of the magnamund companion where you play Banedon. Are there any OTHER conversions on phone apps of other novelisations/mini stories, perhaps even the original spectrum game or the telephone games from the 1980s?

[golgotha]

Apr 22, 2017 11:35:30 GMT firestone said:

2. What is the Lone Wolf Saga by GDV like? While it has all original 12 books, I'm adverse to any 'free' app that then introduces purchases for saving profiles (the reviews make an issue out of it)

It's brilliant. A perfect conversion. You don't need to purchase anything to save your profile, only to buy "bookmarks". If you die in a book, you are only sent back to the beginning of that book, and as the books are all rather short, its not really a problem to replay it - this also gives you an opportunity to try out different choices on the way. It's well worth supporting the developer of this one, as its giving away, for free, ten times the entertainment of any competing gamebook apps from e.g Tinman or Cubus.

[asapiens]

I actually have Lone Wolf Sage, only because it was the first one to pop up when typing in "Lone Wolf" in the Play store.

It's pretty entertaining and you really feel like your reading the actual books. The other four that the OP is talking about I have never tried. Are they any good?

[golgotha]

Replying one year later... I'm playing ForgeReply's "Joe Dever's Lone Wolf" at the moment and I am shocked how good it is! It's a full-fledged RPG obviously influenced by Inkle's "Sorcery!" adaptations, and really captures the feel of the original gamebooks, including Dever's writing style. And its long! What I thought was gonna be the end of the game turned out to be only the end of chapter one! Great value for money.

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and it only gets better! The story is really good

[aggsol]

The basics works with most apps/games. My major gripe is the the selection and options for font style, color and size to adapt to my reading preferences. e.g. darker, larger.