I thought I had a doozy (or a duesy, if you’re a pedant) in that up to four readers could play together in a team.
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(Coincidentally, a decade or two later she became an agent and repped Fabled Lands LLP for a while, but let’s not get distracted.) Liz was looking around for a follow-up series to Way of the Tiger.
How that happened was that Oliver Johnson and I had been talking to Elizabeth Roy, the editor in charge of Knight Books. I’m looking at the old copies of those books and I’m thinking who, in this day and age, is going to want to wade through twenty-eight pages of rules before the adventure actually starts? And then there are the tactical maps – And we’d like to get hold of them so as to include Avenger! and the other books in our new venture, but that’s not up to us. No wait, first of all you’re going to say, “What about Way of the Tiger?” Well, the fly in the ointment there is that we have the app rights to WotT (iOS, Android, etc) but not the ebook or print rights. Dice don’t feature, which makes it perfect for e-gamebooks. The Virtual Reality system, as gamebook aficionados will know, is based on the skills the player chooses. Because the first few books we’re releasing will be Virtual Reality titles, including the new one that Jamie is writing now set in a Wild West of tumbleweed-haunted ghost towns, hard-bitten outlaws, immortal Conquistadores and heart-stealing Mexican vampires. So, we’ve been busy with scanners and OCR software, a laborious enough process but almost fun compared to the ensuing stage, when we have to reconstruct the entire flowchart, check it for errors, and then add logic markup for creating ebook versions.Īnd that’s where the quandary arises. Worse than that, most of them never existed in digital form in the first place, having been hammered out on typewriters or, in the case of Coils of Hate, written in green felt-tip on scraps of paper.
Computer memory was at such a premium in the ‘80s and early ‘90s, when everyone wore top hats and smoking jackets, that we didn’t keep digital copies of most of the books. Maybe you can help.Īs part of the worldwide re-release of our old gamebooks starting next spring, Jamie and I have been busy piecing the manuscripts together. Whatever your choice, you will face missions against relentless waves of enemy aircraft and find yourself part of the most authentic historical re-creation of these amazing battles to date.I'm in a bit of a quandary. Test your skills in this fierce battle - will you become an ace or just a statistic? As a pilot, your focus is limited to your mission - destroy the enemy and get you and your mates home alive. If you prefer the tactical to the strategic, you can leave the map view of the air commander and jump into the cockpit of the British Hurricane, Spitfire, German Messerschmitt, Stuka dive bomber, or man the gun stations of the Dornier Do17, Heinkel He111, and Ju-88 level bombers. As the campaign for air superiority plays out, you can watch flights from both sides carrying out their assigned daily missions. As the air commander, you have the ability to view the campaign all the way from the strategic view down to a single aircraft or building in a dynamic war environment where thousands battle for victory.Įach plane, factory, airfield, and radar station has a specific purpose and effect on the progress of the war and when these are targeted by each side, the course of the war can change. Relive what Churchill called "their finest hour" and join the most decisive air campaign in history!īattle of Britain II “Wings of Victory” allows you to either act as the supreme air commander or let your sub-commanders manage the air war themselves. Your battles take place over a vast and dynamic world below. Battle of Britain II “Wings of Victory” re-creates the famous and desperate air battles over southern England in 1940 at both the strategic level of the Air Commander and that of the individual plane and pilot.īoth veteran and casual gamers alike will find something to enjoy in this combination of strategic planning and exciting dogfighting.