- Sunday June 2, 2019 (not the 1st as stated on the cast)
- Interactive Fiction
- Quick/working definition: a game you play by yourself, as a character or characters, against the gamebook/rules.
- Wargame roots
- GM Emulators vs. Interactive Fiction
- Frotz mobile app
- Horse Master
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Fighting Fantasy by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson
- Fighting Fantasy mobile apps
- Blood Bones
- Tiresias
- Star Bastards
- Call-ins
- Jim Yoder from Random Encounters in the Library and I talk Harry Harrison
- Stainless Steel Rat
- Homeworld trilogy
- Deathworld trilogy
- Make Room, Make Room / Soylent Green
- West of Eden
- Bill the Galactic Hero
- Rui Lorenco
- Weird Wild Wuxia West
- Planet of Adventure
- Warriors of the Red Planet
- Lasers & Feelings / Sorcerers & Sellswords
- World of Dungeons
- Minimal d6 by Norbert Matausch
- Dragons are Real by Pete Jones
- Arlen Walker of Live from Pellam's Wasteland
- The history of Soma!
- Interesting bits about Aldous Huxley
- Roberto Calasso, Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka
- High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
- Colin Green of Spikepit asks what system I would use for Necromunda
- I give a garbage answer and lean on Troika!
- Judd Karlman of Daydreaming About Dragons asks if I have played dystopian SF RPGs
- Nanoworld by Marshall Miller
- Misspent Youth by Robert Bohl
Sunday, June 2, 2019
071 Interactive Fiction + Dystopia and Prototype Call-ins
071 Interactive Fiction + Dystopia and Prototype Call-ins
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I rarely find anyone's Top-X-List where I'm familiar with all X things. But your pre 80s military SF list was all not only things I've read, but things I've re-read (except maybe Forever War).
ReplyDeleteHammer's Slammers came out at just the right time and was quickly passed around to everyone in my gaming group. We had a Traveller campaign going for a number of years that was more than slightly based on Hammer's (and even tried to sell it as an idea to GDW).
Thanks for triggering some old memories!
Thanks, Rodger! I agree. A lot of "top" lists are weaksauce. I'm glad you found this one to be worthwhile.
DeleteCheck out Kim Newman's attempt to combine literature and CYOA in Life's Lottery: https://www.amazon.ca/Lifes-Lottery-Kim-Newman/dp/1781165564
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