Ken Boyter will be conducting a live playthrough of The Darkness Over Arkham this evening, Wednesday 28th August 2024, at 6:30pm BST on the EdraTales Twitch channel.
And tomorrow night, Thursday 29th August 2024, at 9:30pm BST, Julian Sparrow will be playing through Secrets of Salamonis, the 40th anniversary Fighting Fantasy gamebook I co-wrote with Steve Jackson, on the Babel_17 Twitch channel.
Join Julian Sparrow on his Twitch channel at 9:30pm BST tonight, Thursday 22nd August 2024, as he plays through Secrets of Salamonis live!
Tonight, Julian Sparrow will be playing through ACE Gamebook #4 live on Twitch on his channel Babel_17. You can join the fun, and help choose what happens next, at 9:30pm BST here.
I will be the guest on The Geek Pride Podcast again tonight, Monday 18 September 2023, talking about all things Moon Knight: Age of Anubis, and gamebooks in general, no doubt.
The interview will be streamed live at 9:00pm BST via YouTube, Facebook and Twitch, but will also be available for you to enjoy later at your leisure.
You can watch my previous appear on The Geek Pride Podcast below.
As Spellbreaker's 30th anniversary month draws to a close, Julian Sparrow will be commencing a readthrough of the adventure on his Twitch channel. Proceedings kick off tonight at 9:30pm BST.
A week ago, I was in the thick of things at Day 2 of the UK Games Expo. It's an event that I look forward to all year and now that it's over for another year, I can't believe it's already been a week since I was at the NEC with my ACE Gamebooks.
Talking of which, the books were very well received. RONIN 47 proved popular, although some of my regular readers chose not to pick up a copy because it's science fiction rather than fantasy, and Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland did well, as it always does. On top of that, I sold out of NEVERLAND - Here Be Monsters!, Beowulf Beastslayer, and Dracula: Curse of the Vampire (again).
One of the things I love about the UK Games Expo is the number of friends I catch up with from all over the country, and all areas of my life. A couple of my university friends still live nearby and stopped by my stand to say hello, as did Twitch streamers Ken Boyter and Julian Sparrow.
And then there are the usual suspects, such as Rene Batsford, Ed Fortune, Kev Abbotts, PJ Montgomery, Neil Roberts, Jamie Fry, George Mann, James Wallis, Justin-Lee Morrison, Jonathan Hicks, and all the Kickstarter backers who stop by and say hello. I also talked business with Holmgard Press and Aconyte Books, which was nice.
On the Saturday night I went to the live readthrough of Sir Ian Livingstone's City of Thieves, during which Olly Mc guided John Robertson through Port Blacksand until he met a grisly end at the hands of Zanbar Bone. Wearing bunny ears. Zanbar Bone, not John Robertson.
Another highlight was the Heorot RPG photoshoot with the reenactors of The Vikings UK, as was the 'Write Like a Pro' workshop I did with Darren Pearce on the Sunday morning.
However, a huge thank you must go to Scott Lewis and Claire Byard, who helped out on my stand again this year and kept me entertained on Saturday night, drinking cocktails and playtesting card games.
If you've never been, you should check out the UK Games Expo because there is something there for everyone, no matter their age. And I hope to be there again next year, but I'm going to need to pull my finger out if I want to have another ACE Gamebook for sale at the event.
If you enjoy live readthroughs of adventure gamebooks you will want to join Ken Boyter this evening, at 6:00pm on the Mythical Tales from Edra Twitch channel, as he will be performing a readthrough of Secrets of Salamonis, the Fighting Fantasy gamebook I wrote with Steve Jackson.
And then the following evening, Julian Sparrow will be back on his Twitch channel at 9:30pm tackling RONIN 47 for the second week in a row.
In both cases, it is YOU the viewers who get to help decide which way to go, which monsters to fight, and which perils to risk. And if you have yet to purchase a copy of the aforementioned adventures yourself, simply click on then images below to rectify that situation.
Tonight, at 9:30pm BST, you can join Julian Sparrow on his Twitch channel as he performs a live readthrough of my most recent ACE Gamebook, RONIN 47.
Not only that, but you can get involved, as The Chat will help to decide Julian's fate! So set an alarm and join Julian tonight, Thursday 20th April 2023, for a good dose of mecha-vs-kaiju gamebook action!
Julian Sparrow, who is better known as Babel_17 on Twitch, will be continuing his readthrough of the original ACE Gamebook, Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland, at 9:30pm GMT this evening.
If you would like to join him down the rabbit-hole, you will be more than welcome.
Today marks what would have been Lewis Carroll's 190th birthday. Of course, it was his work that inspired Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland, which is still my most popular ACE Gamebook. So from today, until the end of the month, you can pick it up for a knockdown price on DriveThruRPG, and there are still a few physical paperbacks available on eBay that are going for what is, quite frankly, a steal.
So, if you haven't got yourself a copy yet, don't delay and do so today. And don't forget to join Babel_17 on Twitch, every Monday evening from 9:30pm, when Julian will be playing through Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland live!
This week I was interviewed by Richard Denning - one of the masterminds behind the UK Games Expo - about HEOROT - Role-Playing in the World of Beowulf Beastslayer on Twitch.
To watch the interview, click on the image below and fast forward to the 45 minute mark.
If you are free around 2:00pm GMT today (Saturday 19 December) why not check out Vicki from Girls That Game's* Twitch stream? She is going to be playing through the fifth ACE Gamebook, 'TWAS - The Krampus Night Before Christmas.
Vicki has spent a great deal of effort making it look and sound amazing. And if you can't watch it live, don't worry - it will be available to view later on both Twitch and YouTube.
If you're looking for a suitable 'TWAS soundtrack to listen to whilst reading through the gamebook yourself, I would suggest a mixture of the Krampus movie OST, Batman: Arkham Origins, and the Home Alone OST.
Good luck, Vicki! Krampus is on his way...
* Vicki is actually the founder of Girls That Game.
