Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Interactive iPod Fiction

So it seems text adventures never die... they just change the medium. Malinche Entertainment brings Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books to the iPod. Sounds like a cool idea. Games work on the iPod or iPod Mini (not Shuffle, of course), cost $10 each, and are currently available in three different “flavors”:

• The First Mile, a horror story
  “Fight your fears or you will be consumed by them.”
• Greystone, a murder mystery
  “Patients and staff are being systematically slaughtered at Greystone. (...) You, a detective with the state police, enter Greystone undercover as a patient.”
• Pentari: First Light, a fantasy adventure
  “Rogue wizards have captured the city of Delphin and hold kingdom nobles prisoner.”

All games are written by Howard Sherman, Malinche’s Chairman, CEO, Programmer, Webmaster “and Bottle Washer.” If you have a Java-enabled browser, you can test-drive some of his games before you buy. And if instead of buying the games you want to sell them, there’s a webmaster affiliate program available as well.

[Via Kotaku.]

Also see QML, my XML language for multiple-choice style games.

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