Lone Wolf/Seventh Sense

[Jason Rayes]

I'm probably a little behind in only just finding this out, but the Lone Wolf adventure game books have been released as public domain with the blessings of the author Joe Dever. The gamebooks were released during the 80's gamebook craze but I always felt that the writing and game design were well ahead of the curve so It will be interesting to go back and check to see if nostalgia matches reality. Also there is a free program available called Seventh Sense which allows you to download the books and play them on your PC, it keeps track of your stats and inventory etc. The Seventh Sense is available here:

http://www.projectaon.org/staff/david/index.php

You can download the books from within the program or you can get just the books here:

http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

Edit: It still features the original Gary Chalk artwork which is a bonus, that guy was awesome.

 

[Jason Rayes]

ha litterally turned the books into a computer game love it

Haha! Yeah, I was actually at a bit of a loss as to what part of the forums to put this in but decided in the end that it really counted as a computer game now

 

[Jason Rayes]

haha no more cheating with rolls too

They do have a bookmarking feature though, beats marking a page you may need to return to with your finger. I never considered backtracking if I died cheating though, lets be honest who really wants to wade through the whole adventure to correct one wrong turn

Captcha: Lardy-dardy. Hmmph, no Lone Wolf for you Captcha!

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Holy cow, I loved those books!

Awesome find OP, time for nostalgia to wash over me for a while now. Thanks!

 

[Akytalusia]

i loved those books back in the day. i didn't even know anyone in this day and age even knew about them. o.o;; that program sounds interesting. i may have to look into it.

 

[Jason Rayes]

..i didn't even know anyone in this day and age even knew about them...

I was wondering about this when I made the thread but it seems enough of us remember to make it worthwhile

 

[Tallim]

ha litterally turned the books into a computer game love it

Haha! Yeah, I was actually at a bit of a loss as to what part of the forums to put this in but decided in the end that it really counted as a computer game now

haha no more cheating with rolls too

Actually you can kind of, there is an option that lets you use the arrow keys to "sway" the marker.

Yeah this has been around for ages. I'm actually almost completely through the ones they've done on essentially hardcore runs. Some of the earlier books have so many instant death decisions :/ :\