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Post by Thomas Wolmer on Oct 30, 2004 21:56:45 GMT
[ This was so marginally LW-related that I decided not to make it an announcement. ] Fans of gamebooks and Gary Chalk's art may want to check out a new (isn't that a rare thing?) gamebook series: Football Fantasy. The books are authored by Jon Sutherland, illustrated by Gary Chalk, and published by Wizard Books in the UK. Each book represents a team and you can either play against another player, with his or her own book, or solo against a Random Letter Generator (yes, it involves closing your eyes and pointing a pointy object at a grid...) driven player. More information is available at the official website: www.footballfantasygamebooks.com
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Post by Frying Pan on Oct 31, 2004 13:53:09 GMT
That's just the most... bat-dung insane concept I have ever seen...
How about, instead of reading strange erotic fantasies about football, just grab a ball and go OUTSIDE? *boggle*
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Post by Frying Pan on Oct 31, 2004 13:55:50 GMT
Ahem... back on topic, though...
It looks like Gary Chalk's illustration skills have improved by huge leaps since his Lone Wolf days. Those footballers look really great!
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Post by Relenoir on Nov 1, 2004 4:07:54 GMT
Wow, that does sound pretty silly. . . I, I, I, I don't know what to say about it. Give me a good old Patriots game any day (even though we lost this afternoon:()!
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Post by Black Cat on Nov 1, 2004 20:52:44 GMT
Wow, that does sound pretty silly. . . I, I, I, I don't know what to say about it. Give me a good old Patriots game any day (even though we lost this afternoon:()! Don't worry, they'll make the playoffs, but the Eagles are going to eliminate them in the semi-finals. ;D About that new series of gamebooks, why don't they make a version with American football instead for the USA market? They can also make series with Canadian and Australian football. Oh, and a series about curling would be VERY exciting...
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Post by Zipp on Nov 4, 2004 2:36:00 GMT
sigh... didn't they learn their lesson with the sports issues of Choose Your Own Adventures?
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Post by Sarra on Nov 6, 2004 16:11:31 GMT
sigh... didn't they learn their lesson with the sports issues of Choose Your Own Adventures? Choose your own adventures was the second gamebook series I came across. Lone Wolf was (of course) the first. I remember being EXTREMELY disapointed in the CYOA series after reading Lone Wolf books 1, 2, and 4. At the time I did not know that the FIRST gamebook series I found was also the BEST gamebook series I would ever find.
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Post by Zipp on Nov 11, 2004 1:50:00 GMT
Aw no, I got into Choose Your Owns waaay before Lone Wolf. Some of them are actually pretty good, but I've yet to find a better series than Lone Wolf. The cyo element in LW is much less... frustrating.
For instance, the choices you have are more acceptable and spanning. I mean, no, you can't run up to King and stab him to death, but you can run along the rooftops to get to his palace. And they actually have endings. Some of the cyo's really pissed me off, when I'd go left and it would say "ah, you've made the wrong choice, guess you'll have to backtrack. It will take a while, though. THE END" I was like... WTF?! So I back track, damn. Or when I'd overpower a bad guy and be expecting to ask him to divulge his information I came to get, and the book says, "You then overcomed the man and stolen his weapon. You hold him at point blank range and ask him for information. You get. THE END" Very anti-climatic... and illiterate. What was I doing when I wrote this?
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Post by Relenoir on Nov 21, 2004 22:22:11 GMT
Um, Eagles are NFC, and Patriots are AFC, so that's kind of impossible. I'd love to see the Pats and Eagles in the Super Bowl, was hoping for it last year! McNabb's great and so are Westbrook and T.O. (even though he's obnoxious!) Back on topic. . . I agree with Zipp about CYOA, although I did discover them first, long before LW. They often gave you no indication on what ways to go, and that was rarely the case when I found LW years later. Just another reason the LW books were the ultimate in gamebooks!
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Post by Black Cat on Nov 22, 2004 3:11:37 GMT
Um, Eagles are NFC, and Patriots are AFC, so that's kind of impossible. Oups! You are right!
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Post by grimrod on Nov 19, 2005 10:27:34 GMT
This is close enough to what I was looking for that I thought I'd go ahead and ask in this thread: Why did Gary Chalk stop doing illustrations for the LW series? His style is so distinctive, and although it's kinda quirky and weird at times, it really gives the books a unique feel that seems lacking with the later books. Maybe I'm just biased because I played the first eight books at a much younger age than the later ones.
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Post by outspaced on Nov 19, 2005 11:24:14 GMT
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Post by grimrod on Nov 19, 2005 20:17:49 GMT
Interesting, but not a lot of detail there. Gary became "unreasonable" eh? I wonder what that could mean. Was he demanding more money, or arguing about what exactly he wanted to illustrate, or how to illustrate it? It just seems crazy, the kinds of things people can have conflict over. *sigh* Oh well. Thanks for the link!
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Post by Dusk Fox on Nov 20, 2005 0:53:23 GMT
Man, this is an old thread. Relenoir posted on it. I hadn't even realized Gary Chalk had gone mad with power.
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Post by outspaced on Nov 20, 2005 12:04:50 GMT
Rel's asked me to say that he's OK, just really busy with college right now, but he hopes to have more time come January, since he's taking an extra credit this semester to potentially free up some extra time next year. He mailed me a couple of weeks back, saying that he hadn't checked his E-mail for over a month.
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