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Zarglu · 01-03-2009, 05:55 AM

I would like to generate some game/puzzle books for the PRS-505... what would be the best format for that?

The main requirement being a well-defined pagination, or some way to have dynamic (hyperlinked) page numbers.
PDF could fit the bill, but then they force a font size, and the images present on multiple pages would have to be duplicated, thus inflating the size of the file. Short of other ideas, that's the format I'll start with.

For those that don't remember gamebooks, you can have a look here f.i.
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books
the main idea is that you have a page, explaining a situation, and "links" to other pages for your actions. On paper book (or for a PRS-505 I would guess) the links are just page numbers, and you go to the page number corresponding to your action.

This allows to have interactive stories/adventures, or puzzles, mazes, math enygmas, etc. quite a lot of variations

I'm asking on the dev forum in the hope of avoiding wasting time looking for the actual possibilities of the various formats, and thus concentrate on producing content ASAP

Ideally some format like a website in a zip (ala CHM) would be ideal, or a format where page numbers can be defined at compilation time (and allow flexibility for font size), or where page numbers can be dynamically replaced in the text at display time... Support for images in pages would be a requirement too.

Thanks for all hints and happy new year!

01-03-2009, 05:55 AM	#1
Zarglu Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: PRS-505	Best formats for game books / puzzles? I would like to generate some game/puzzle books for the PRS-505... what would be the best format for that? The main requirement being a well-defined pagination, or some way to have dynamic (hyperlinked) page numbers. PDF could fit the bill, but then they force a font size, and the images present on multiple pages would have to be duplicated, thus inflating the size of the file. Short of other ideas, that's the format I'll start with. For those that don't remember gamebooks, you can have a look here f.i. http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books the main idea is that you have a page, explaining a situation, and "links" to other pages for your actions. On paper book (or for a PRS-505 I would guess) the links are just page numbers, and you go to the page number corresponding to your action. This allows to have interactive stories/adventures, or puzzles, mazes, math enygmas, etc. quite a lot of variations I'm asking on the dev forum in the hope of avoiding wasting time looking for the actual possibilities of the various formats, and thus concentrate on producing content ASAP Ideally some format like a website in a zip (ala CHM) would be ideal, or a format where page numbers can be defined at compilation time (and allow flexibility for font size), or where page numbers can be dynamically replaced in the text at display time... Support for images in pages would be a requirement too. Thanks for all hints and happy new year!