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Re:Steve Jackson Games Is Bringing the Fighting Fantasy Book... by 2mlWQbCK on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @03:32AM (#43099929)
Online versions of Lone Wolf books (1999, with author's permission): https://projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
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Re:Steve Jackson Games Is Bringing the Fighting Fantasy Book... by vmilner on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @04:35AM (#43100322)
Someone wrote some excellent software to play the books based on this open material, though it’s fiddly to get running - but worth it if you’re a fan.

https://projectaon.org/staff/david/

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Re:Steve Jackson Games Is Bringing the Fighting Fantasy Book... by cjauvin on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:19AM (#43102410)
The context is too appropriate for me to not plug this really old project of mine:

https://projectaon.org/staff/christian/gamebook.js/

which was, admittedly, a strange idea (an experimental mix between a gamebook and interactive fiction), which I explained there:

http://cjauvin.blogspot.com/2013/03/suspension-of-parser-dis...

Nowadays I would use an LLM for that, of course.

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