A Puzzled Adventurer's Journal

Gamebooks, puzzles & roleplaying games.

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Monday, January 8, 2024

Lashen, an in-progress Semitic "postfix notation" language

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Translation: God said, "Let there be light!" and there was light. Postfix notation is a mathematical notation in whic...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

Let's play The Return of Zaltec! Part 2 - To Barnan!

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Monday, June 5, 2023

Let's play The Return of Zaltec! Part 1 - Kabar Town

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I've started a playthrough of my gamebook,  The Return of Zaltec , with commentary and stuff. Please let me know what you think!
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

A Case for Mindless Dice Combat

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Many TTRPGs and gamebooks feature dice-based combat. Designing this combat to allow player agency can be difficult (as illustrated in my pre...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Evolution of Gamebook Combat

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This is not a post about combat in gamebooks. It's a post about how my various trials and errors at making interested combat systems in ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Can Gamebooks Offer Infinite Replayability?

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TL;DR - theoretically. (But easier said than done.) Gamebooks are typically made to be played again after reaching an ending. This is true ...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Page-Number Puzzles

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Gamebooks typically tell which pages or sections you may turn to. This is standard, and is the whole premise for Choose Your Own Adventure. ...
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