I feel like gamebooks/choose your own adventure have been bubbling under the surface for a while, overdue a comeback. Can they stack up against Actual Games? I'm not sure. But they do have their own special joy. @sharnajackson.com
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oh my god I love choose your own adventure so much, this would make me so happy. We had to write our own one in English class once and it was *the best*
oh that's a great idea re neurodiversity and navigating the world! And i would LOVE to do a loki choose your own adventure. Very labour intensive mind you...
probably very influenced by my particular niche, but I (anecdotally) find that most of my young choose-your-own book readers are fans of d&d or other tabletop/board games more than fans of... books
I was actually inspired by loving those 80s fighting fantasy ones as a kid - but finding the old-school rpg vibe more violent and difficult than I wanted, as a kid who'd rather hang out with the goblins than kill them
I think they can, for sure, for some readers. We gave the boy a stack of reissued Fighting Fantasies a few christmases back and he absolute devoured them, then immediately started writing his own 😂
I would LOVE to read one of yours! Mystery one? Or other? The closest I've come is planning one I never finished and doing Fiction Express, online schools thing where kids vote on the paths. So you doin't write them all but you plan em all.
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It occurred to me that it would be a great way of writing about neurodiversity. The adventure being every day life.
A Loki choose your own adventure would be amazing as well!
I'm guessing there must be a secret formula to writing and sequencing them. How they always worked felt like magic to me! 😆