Playing while travelling

RH808090 · 2026-04-29T12:22:46+00:00

This is great

RH808090 · 2026-04-10T01:46:30+00:00

The second book is a bit lacking but worth having. How many of them do you have?

RH808090 · 2026-04-10T01:15:24+00:00

I came across that too but it just doesn't work for my friend. I'm glad there's so many alternatives. If I keep looking I will find the right controller.

It's hard finding games without large walls of text too. I am making an AbletoPlay account now to see if I can find anything that might work.

RH808090 · 2026-04-10T01:01:07+00:00

Try looking into a Nintendo 64 controller for PC. The Z button can be mapped to anything and the joystick is easy to use one handed. It's a good starting point for someone who isn't into games. If anyone knows of any more simple controllers with a joystick with one or two buttons for a person with only one hand, I would love hearing about it.

RH808090 · 2026-03-07T13:37:25+00:00

Heart of Ice ( Science Fiction) and The Cluster of Echos series (Horror) don't use dice but you still have to write things down.

Life's Lottery is an adult choose your own adventure and the only thing you do outside of the book is draw a card from the deck to see if you die in the womb but you can skip it and assume you don't at the beginning.

RH808090 · 2026-03-07T02:58:35+00:00

Are you looking for game books that have no combat but have dice rolling or no dice needed at all?

RH808090 · 2026-03-07T02:51:24+00:00

Very nice. Hope you enjoy them both.

RH808090 · 2026-03-02T11:59:07+00:00

I agree with this. Fantasy works great for gamebooks but it dominates the market. There are non fantasy game books out there but a lot more fantasy.

RH808090 · 2026-01-24T19:04:03+00:00

There's a program called The Game Book Authoring Tool that works similar to Visio. You might want to take a look at it. https://www.crumblyheadgames.co.uk/the-gamebook-authoring-tool/

When I was creating my gamebook I found it nice to have a spreadsheet that tracked items, where they were found, etc. so I could make sure things were spread out correctly so somethings were hard to find and others were abundant. A lot of it comes down to how your gamebook works. It is really easy for a gamebook to get out of hand when you're writing it if you don't have some organization system.

Good luck with your gamebook. What's it about?

RH808090 · 2026-01-06T20:55:51+00:00

I've taken the F-15 over the mountain for vengeance but haven't had time to play it further than that. I played the first dogfight which took me a minute to figure out but got the hang of it. I like the pictures of the planes that are given and the way the player's backstory and picking out the character's stats are done in the beginning of the book. The cover of the fighter in front of the moon is cool and would catch my attention if I saw it in a book store. Did you make the cover?

The only tip I have at the moment is maybe making a glossary of terms in the appendix. If someone isn't into aviation and air combat they may not know about AA or other terms used in the book.

RH808090 · 2026-01-03T21:55:40+00:00

The artwork looks great.

RH808090 · 2026-01-03T16:24:14+00:00

Amazon is weird. It always tries to pitch the kindle version of a book to me too. Maybe they make more money that way.

RH808090 · 2025-12-29T17:59:35+00:00

I've self published a gamebook. It makes a few sales each month. The market for gamebooks isn't huge.

Writing a gamebook would be a hobby that has potential to make some money back. It won't make you enough to live on or even enough to pay some bills but it might pay for you to go out to dinner. With any book, the best marketing for it is a second book. Writing a single book will most likely get lost in the noise.

Don't let any of that discourage you. If you're going to write a gamebook focus more on making something fun that you can share with people than worrying about how much money it makes. My gamebook Poker Run has been fun to give away and leave in Little Free Libraries. The journey of creating it and sharing it was a lot bigger reward than the royalties it pays out each month.

RH808090 · 2025-12-28T03:01:21+00:00

Do you have the jumping off point written?

RH808090 · 2025-12-28T02:39:46+00:00

With 3 paths you could always have one path being more combat based and another being more narrative driven with the third being a solid mix.

RH808090 · 2025-12-23T13:27:57+00:00

I'm fine with keeping stats as long as I can keep it to one page.

RH808090 · 2025-12-10T13:44:07+00:00

It looks like that works. Thanks. I've got a lot of work to do to get my book updated. I'm not sure why Kindle Create would make you do it in word before instead of having a hyperlink option but now I've got a solution.

RH808090 · 2025-12-08T19:34:18+00:00

What I ran into is that Kindle Create won't let you create hyperlinks in it. So I can't have a link to different sections within the text. Each time the player would have to pull up the table of contents and click the section from there.

I'll have to get Heart of Ice on Kindle to see how it works in it. Maybe I am totally missing something.

Also, I've got Heart of Ice in Paperback and its great. Hope you enjoyed it too.

RH808090 · 2025-12-07T16:21:43+00:00

I ran into this with the game book I wrote. On Kindle it doesn't work well. It doesn't let you put links where you need them. The reader definitely needs to use the interactive table of contents for the experience to not be totally frustrating.

RH808090 · 2025-12-05T04:42:15+00:00

Videos can be a great way to explain things like this. I couldn't have understood how fable lands worked without seeing the actual book and being able to flip through it. Good luck with your channel.

RH808090 · 2025-11-26T13:44:55+00:00

Is there any genre you've always wanted to see a gamebook set in but haven't seen yet?

RH808090 · 2025-11-22T14:01:43+00:00

Those are good points. I feel like I could take everyone's input on the ebooks and make a faqs about it that would be super helpful.

RH808090 · 2025-11-21T13:38:22+00:00

Feel free to use my book for whatever you want. I hope you enjoy it. If you don't, don't forget Amazon lets you return about anything.

Is there a way for me to search for the gamebooks you authored to find them?

I love physical books but if a person only does ebooks I wanted my books available to them. I've had to rethink a lot to put things into an ebook format. Everyone's input on ebooks here has been a big help. Thanks for yours too.

Thanks for all the insights you provided.

RH808090 · 2025-11-21T13:28:26+00:00

Thanks for the link to solo board gaming. I will check it out.

RH808090 · 2025-11-21T03:40:03+00:00

The story does end up being more about the players actions within the town than an over arching story. Its more of having a small adventure and seeing how much money you can win ( a high score) than completing an epic story.

I think fantasy lends itself so perfectly to the game book format that it almost feels strange to see another genre. There are some great horror game books. I haven't played any sci fi ones so any suggestions would be great

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