Rise of the Ancients

18/12/2024

Rise of the Ancients Bk 1: Bruidd is on Good Reads if any kind soul would like to post a review there:

Rise of the Ancients Book 1: Bruidd - An unlikely invit…

06/12/2024

Hi all,
Someone is trying to sell my books for a crazy price on eBay. If you're interested in them, I'll send you both books signed or dedciated along with a Bruidd postcard, an Ashpherron bookmark and 2 Ashpherron dice for £32. I have 10 sets available.

26/10/2024

Since everyone else is doing it, I thought I'd try out Google Notebook's podcast generattion tool on Bruidd - surprisingly accurate I think, although it doesn't really explore the narrative very deeply. What do you think? https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/611ae312-1838-419c-aeb6-c4bcc70bc171/audio

05/10/2024

First attempt at a back cover blurb for WATG:

21/01/2024

Another planned title - which essentially will be an origins story for Rise of the Ancients:

21/01/2024

I'm hoping to complete Rise of the Ancients Book 3: Grimmour in 2024, but before that The Watcher At the Gates should appear, an adventure with a completely different character, that takes place elsewhere in the world of Umatta, during book 2. The protagonist will also appear in Book 3.

26/09/2023

18/09/2023

https://analoggamestudies.org/2023/09/studying-gamebooks-a-framework-for-analysis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=studying-gamebooks-a-framework-for-analysis&fbclid=IwAR2-Xn3rQMgSb2d5CZhEO5SzRXsKacUpDP5TEolOyRXgUwcjMlfFM-YEH90

Marco Arnaudo Studying Gamebooks: A Framework for Analysis September 17, 2023 Marco Arnaudo The gamebook is a genre of analog interactive fiction that originated in the US and in the UK in the 1970s and expanded internationally to produce thousands of works and sell millions of copies in the 1980s a...

17/06/2023

Update: I still need to finish off The Watcher At the Gates, which is a separate character adventure that takes place between books 1 and 2, and while work is underway on book 3, I've also been working on a Rise of the Ancients origins story, a sci-fi romp, temporarily titled Trappist-1c.

09/05/2023

There will be a bit of a return to form for the Sunsmith in Bk3: Grimmour. Personality traits and vices that were somewhat suppressed in Bk2 will resurface strongly at the outset, getting our protagonist into all sorts of troublesome scrapes. It's hard work being a hero!

27/04/2023

I may have been quiet lately, but Bk 3 is in the works, I'll be chipping away at it... Viking vibes 👍