Saturday 16 January 2016

Mini Adventure Comics Archive: Complete At Last!

  
It's been a year and a half since the last content update, so apologies for that - while I'd done all the scanning back in 2014, it's taken until now to find a tiny window to format and upload them properly.

But all eight Mini Adventure Comics are now up for download, along with restored links to everything else on the blog!

I hope you enjoy reading or re-reading them - and I will remain forever curious for more information as to their creator and original publishing history. If anyone can enlighten me further - or you just want to reminisce about where you first picked them up - please do so in the comments below.

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  1. Thanks for sharing all of this information! In the interest of making the entries on these titles in my own database (at gamebooks.org) a bit less sketchy, would you object if I added copies of the cover images there? If that's okay with you, let me know how you'd like to be attributed. I can also link back to you if you like, though I've been hesitating to do so due to the legal grey area this site occupies; it's a shame the creator of the books remains elusive, as it would be really nice to be able to ask for permission to distribute them! Curse the "orphan works" dilemma! :-)

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  2. Please feel free to use whatever assets are available here - as you say, we're trapped in the orphan works dilemma, and I have no claim over the originating author's copyright, so no need for attribution. Always happy to help fill in another gap in our collective gamebook history, though - and maybe one day we'll be able to track him down!

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  3. Hi Andrew. Thanks for all your hard work on these comics! I loved them as a child so great to stumble upon them on your blog.

    For #devtober this month I had a few weekends spare so I thought I'd have a bit of fun and make the first mini-comic into an interactive game on iPhone. It's almost done. Just need to tweaks a few bugs, and add a bit more polish. You can see a video here > (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-VFq5TClMypMIL_DRlJZVoaG2YW1lTlP/view?usp=sharing) It's a bit blurry! Was using an old webcam to film.

    Not sure what I'm going to do with the game. Probably nothing :-D But I'm hoping you still check this blog, as I have a few questions about the comics flow that doesn't make sense, and maybe you can help out with!

    Thanks, Jack

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    1. Hi Jack - sorry for the delay! The app looks brilliant! :D

      Happy to help out with any questions if I can, though I'll need to re-read the comics, it's been a while since I scanned and put them up.

      Luckily the mini comics are so short they only really have 4-5 loops/routes through them.

      I imagine the critical paths for a full Legendmaker comic/four-issue arc would be a bit harder to code (what with the three potential characters and gold tracking on top, too).

      But great job, and thanks for sharing!

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  5. Hello, I'm know I'm slightly late to this forum but, could you please post the links again? I'm desperate to read these little obscure hidden gems!!! 😊

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    1. Hey, if you view the page as the web version, the links should all be functional in the sidebar on the right - I fixed them recently, so let me know if they're still not working!

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