Topic by aaron 2014-12-27 13:16:43

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Hello all,
There is now an app, called Lone Wolf Saga, on the google play store, but it is an android exclusive.
It is free, and has no adds. Yep, you heard that right, no adds at all. Anyhow, this app has a statistics tracker, and makes the gamebooks more like choice-based things, but it preserves stuff by saying to turn to the certain pages, asking you to role, etc.
The app is completely text based, but has talkback support. Combat is a bit odd though, lots of numbers and it's not really explained. The other con is that there seems to be no basic rules explanations about how ocmbat works, what endurance points are used for, etc. Although, skills and stuff have descriptions when you double click them. It's perfectly playable and you can learn as you go.
The app was last updated on 19 November 2014, and has flight through the dark, all the way up to the masters of darkness, fully playable.
The app name is: Lone Wolf Saga
The link, for those who want to get it that way, is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta … WolfBiblio

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Reply by Dark 2014-12-27 17:46:17

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Well Aaron as regards the rules, if they have preserved all of the text from the books each has a rules section at the start to tell you what is what, though combat might work a little differently.

They also did produce a reader's handbook on the projectaon site with a full explanation of all the lw rules, plus some handy clarrifications from some old lw club news letters.

If this has full talk back support that is fantastic. None of the efforts to make more programming intensive ways of playing the projectaon titles have been accessible at all thus far, the 7th sense player used an inaccessible form of java and the magnamund commander worked through silverlight but neither was any good for screen readers. nice there is an alternative even if it is androi only.

now if only the idiots who continued the publishing of lw and produced the modern reprints of the books with all the extras plus continued the series after the hunger of seganos would do accessible versions as well.

Let me know if you hear about anything on Ios.I always play the lw books when I'm feeling down and want something to cheer me up, sinse that hole 1980's ethos of jolly adventuring through a dangerous world with awsome skills, occasionally meeting a sticky end is just so much a high. I love the point in shadow on the sand when you climb to the top of the tower chased by the guards in the Zakhan's palace and get the opportunity to push a huge base drumb down the stairs on them, ---- now that's what I call a drumb roll! big_smile.

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Reply by aaron 2014-12-27 22:24:43

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Hello,
I think it's just one guy developing the app, and unlike Apple, android is a pay once, get your app published, for twenty dollars (for your first app only), sort of affair, where as apple charge a crazy amount, yearly, to get any app published, and I think it works per ap too, so I can see why the person chose android over iOS.

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Reply by devinprater 2014-12-31 07:17:43

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Well, there are such things as web apps, aren't there? Yeah, HTML 5 is fairly good on iOS, and voiceover works wonderfully with the quentin C playroom web app, so vo could work fine with any web app that has any kind of accessibility.

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Reply by Dark 2014-12-31 11:24:48

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Yep, much as I like the voice support in Ios and appreciate the games, Apple are money grabbing idiots with their "do it our way and pay us the privilige"  Atittude to developers, though if devin is correct on the web ap front that might be a way forward.

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Reply by Niklas 2014-12-31 14:47:59

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what I like about the lone wolf saga and the other gamebooks from delight games and choiceofgames, is that they can be played offline as well. So, no Internet Connection is needed for playing, wich in my opinion, is absolutely great.

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Reply by Dark 2014-12-31 15:42:11

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That is true Niclas, I have copies of all of the lw books on my harddrive as well as the downloaded html books from Chronicles of ARborell, though to be honest offline play is mattering less and less these days especially on phones an the like.

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Reply by Dark 2015-01-17 13:24:19

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Well Niclas it depends upon how you play them really. Both lw and the choiceofgames can be played online, indeed Online was first how I played all the Lw books, though I have now downloaded their html packages just so that I have a store of them in case the website goes down.

I personally don't mind whether their online or not, but I like having the choiceofgames books on my Iphone for both convenience and easy saving.

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Reply by Niklas 2015-01-18 13:10:08

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I think it depends on what you like as well. I simply don't like games wich I can play online only because I need an internet connection every time. I like to play my games even if I don't have an internet connection or if I don't want to connect to it. But that's only my personal opinion here.

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Reply by Dark 2015-01-19 06:56:50

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Well if you have a limitede connection that is understandable. Fortunately, I am either in my flat where I have a ridiculously fast dsl monster (actually far faster than I really need but it was a free upgrade of the equipment), while at my parents though the connection is much slower in speed it's still there, and there are no audiogames (even swamp), that I've seen that really cause major lag with it.

On the other hand,   when I used to stay for three weeks in a guest house at the buxton light opera festival, I ironically could only get an internet connection at the pub! big_smile. Actually I think people must've thought I was a real alkie, sinse when not at light opera events I was in there in the mornings, (though usually I just drank coffee).

At that point I couldn't play online games, indeed I played through most of castaways (in offline mode), and Lunimals, as well as several works of interactive fiction.

So, if your on a limited connection I can understand why you prefer to play games offline, though mostly for me it's not an issue these days, indeed now that I have an unlimited internet package on my Iphone, so long as the thing was accessible either online or through Ios it might not be an issue even if I couldn't get a connection for my pc, ---- failing loss of phone signal of course big_smile.

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Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

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