Puzzle Adventures

[Pet Terry]

I remember reading these books (Puzzle adventures & Ghost puzzle adventures) when I was kid and today I actually found them in library. Has anyone read these? Some stories are pretty good (The Vanishing Village) and there's also really hard puzzles included.

Incase you are not familiar with these I'll tell what's the main idea. There's a story and you should turn the page only after you have solved the puzzle on the previous page. You get hints how to solve them reading carefully and looking the pictures of story.

I've been thinking maybe some of these stories could make good adventuregames... :

[wOoDz]

yeah i had a space one, can't remember the name, in the one i had it had a "what do you want to do now?" list and each option sent you to a different page number... i died a lot and never finished it! but yes you could use on as a plot, another way would be to get some TADS text adventures games, you can get the source script which opens in notepad and work from them. if you can do AGS you should be able to work with TADS code

woodz

[AGA]

Go check the Upcoming Games forum. Snake is making one or more games in that style, I think...

[SLaMgRInDeR]

i read millions of them, the space one, the train one, and quite a few others, they would probly make for good games.
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[Mr Jake]

The Sonic One kicked butt
They would make cool games if done right

[Las Naranjas]

I had 40 of the the Osborne ones at one stage.

[Grundislav]

Those must have been cool...

"If you want to bite the head off a bat, turn to page 40"

"If you want to shout your wife's name and clean up after your dog, turn to page 76"

"If you decide to perform a benefit concert in Las Vegas, turn to page 94"

[auhsor]

Yeah those osbourne ones were so cool. The Choose Your Own Adventure ones were also cool

[Snake]

Go check the Upcoming Games forum. Snake is making one or more games in that style, I think...

The Legend of Leitor's Edge.

It's a cross between a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book and an adventure game.

My favorite CYOA book was "The Mystery of Chimney Rock". It was awesome, I'd read that book over and over again.


--Snake

[Las Naranjas]

People are confusing the Puzzle Adventures and Choose Your Own Adventures.

The former has say two pages of narrative, then requires you to decode a message, or find the way to sneak into a building, or find your way out of a maze. Then you get another two pages of narrative, then another puzzle.

The chooseyour own adventures have the two pages of narrative, then a turn to page x situation.

The former is linear and 3rd person.

The latter is 2nd person and non linear.

Ironically yesterday, just 10 minutes or so before this post appeared I was writing about these two products and describing how they were different to Adventure games.

[Pet Terry]

Thanks, Las, for making things clear, I meant Puzzle Adventures, never read any Choose Your Own Adventures.

Anyway, I would like to see The Vanishing Village to be an adventuregame, the plot is pretty interesting and it reminds me of The Legend of Leitors Edge I hope I would have enough time to start making it myself. Although, it would need pretty much of work for example to remake puzzles, because some puzzles won't probably work well in adventuregame.

[Snake]

These puzzle books sound fun. Is there an online version of The Vanishing Village one somewhere?


--Snake

[Flippy_D @school]

Heh, I used to read hundreds of these. The Usborne ones were by far the superior, with geniunely good puzzles (bar the occasional maze, but I guess they had to have something easy once in a while). I loved every single one I read, and I read ALOT.
Also, for choose-your-own adventure books, almost anything would do. I read three Legend of Zelda ones, seven Mario ones, at least 5 of the ghost hunter series, and two Dark Knight (or something that sounds very similar, I can't remember the name), these being probably the most challenging and serious... you had to take into account things like food supplies and battling was a geniunely edgey experiance.

I also read innumerable random CYOAs.

[Flippy_D @school]

Oh, and the lemming books! The Genesis Quest and The Hypnosis Enigma were great. Oh, except the mazes. Ever tried to do a maze in first person, relying on text? frickin' impossible.

[Las Naranjas]

I always had a liking for the first book in the osborne series, with the ugly red haired kid and the funny house.

And I have a better recollection of the Vanishing Villiage than some of the others as well.