choose Your Own Adventure: Discuss - Page 2

RandyACook · 06-16-2012, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by elemenoP

Ever since I learned Hypercard (who remembers Hypercard???) I have thought about digital versions of Choose Your Own Adventure. What I would really like to see is the flow chart. I can remember skipping to the back of the book, and seeing different endings that I never got to, and wondering HOW you got there. I am convinced that some of those endings were just stuck in the back of the book, with no way to get there!

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What an interesting idea (putting in an unreachable ending or two). I'll have to think about how (and the why) to work that into my next CYOA book. Building on a hidden easter egg approach could be amusing (or really frustrating).

Edward M. Grant · 06-16-2012, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by RandyACook

What an interesting idea (putting in an unreachable ending or two).

I seem to remember that at least one of the old books had a loop to catch people who jumped to a random section; whatever choices you made you'd go through three or four pages and come back to where you started.

Ekaros · 06-16-2012, 06:12 AM

I think more advanced version of these would be Japanese Visual Novels...

Still, it's one format which has advantage on ereaders.

crich70 · 06-16-2012, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey

Now that's pretty awesome, thanks. Liked these books as a kid. I see they have them available in .mobi. I'll have to see if they convert to epub OK via calibre. I can always try the html version on my tablet, also.

Where did you see .mobi copies of the books? I've been looking but can't seem to find them.
Edit: Never mind I finally looked in the right spot and found them. lol.

RainingLemur · 06-18-2012, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by RandyACook

What an interesting idea (putting in an unreachable ending or two). I'll have to think about how (and the why) to work that into my next CYOA book. Building on a hidden easter egg approach could be amusing (or really frustrating).

Haha. Those easter eggs would be fun to get to. The better hidden they are, the better the reward.

crich70 · 06-18-2012, 03:24 AM

Book 25 in the series is still just HTML pages (rather than a mobi file) but you can load the page into Sigil to create an epub very easily and then convert that to a mobipocket book. It only takes a couple of minutes to do it.

RandyACook · 06-22-2012, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by crich70

Where did you see .mobi copies of the books? I've been looking but can't seem to find them.
Edit: Never mind I finally looked in the right spot and found them. lol.

You are needing .mobi right? That is the raw version of the Amazon Kindle format? If I remember correctly, Calibre will convert a ePUB file into a .mobi file (or at least the Amazon flavor of it). However, I am not sure if all of the hyperlinking survives the conversion. (Without the hyperlinking it would be a real pain to play a CYOA on a eReader.) What type\brand of eReader are you using?

RandyACook · 06-22-2012, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by crich70

Book 25 in the series is still just HTML pages (rather than a mobi file) but you can load the page into Sigil to create an epub very easily and then convert that to a mobipocket book. It only takes a couple of minutes to do it.

Ah... did the linking make it through the double conversion? (HTML>EPUB>MOBI)

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06-16-2012, 06:12 AM	#18
Ekaros Illiterate newbie Posts: 661 Karma: 1702090 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Finland Device: Sony PRS-T1	I think more advanced version of these would be Japanese Visual Novels... Still, it's one format which has advantage on ereaders.

06-18-2012, 03:24 AM	#21
crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	Book 25 in the series is still just HTML pages (rather than a mobi file) but you can load the page into Sigil to create an epub very easily and then convert that to a mobipocket book. It only takes a couple of minutes to do it.