Great Freddie Mercury track. Was almost autobiographical of me in my late teens/early 20s. Vics still away so im left virtually alone. If it wasnt for Drutt id be much worse. A lot of people say you never realise how much you miss something till it goes. When its your love though, you always know beforehand. It’ll have been a week tomorrow. I just wish I had the capital to get us up there permanently. Given time to save its perfectly achievable but need to be much more thrifty.
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Having been exposed to much literature recently has reawoken a deep desire to write my own book. I have often toyed with the idea of doing my own interactive story or an autobiography, both of which appeal to me right now. I think in all honesty the former would be a better idea as it’s others work of this kind I have dabbled in, most recently proof reading and play testing Jonathan Green’s upcoming book, The Wicked Wizard Of Oz. (Available for pre order on Amazon)
I’ve chosen this option, and ideas are beginning to pop in my mind and I can see the story’s structure taking shape. Im making notes and next I shall plot out the sequences. The big question is, do I bother with a combat system? Many fans of this genre fess up to not bothering with associated dice rolls and prefer to assume they been successful in any opposing sequence encountered. Lighter books of this genre such as Choose Your Own Adventure and Time Machine don’t bother with this mechanic. It will surely make it easier to write as well.
That said, its time for lunch soall the best, Jam out!
Having read Rik Mayalls amazingly zany autobiography last year, Victoria purchased me another of a comedian I really enjoy. David Walliams, Camp David. Most the book covers his life all the way up to the first season of Little Britain. It was very interesting to read of his childhood and how, like myself, he loves to make people laugh like its a huge feel-good buzz. It also goes very indepth about his personal life, including his battle with depression and how very nearly we didn’t have Little Britain. I never thought when I use to watch GamesMaster that he was on the set regularly…or that Richard Osman was a two face plagiarising back stabber.
So I would highly recommend this as your very next read if you haven’t read it before (it’s five years old now, wish I got into biographies sooner). If you can forgive the endless typos (get a better proof reader David) you’ll have a riveting read of the funnyman who swam the channel for charity!
It’s been a busy past few weeks in the world of Fighting Fantasy. Ian Livingstone is producing an eagerly anticipated 35th anniversary game book, and has recently held a competition in Twitter to have a random lucky fans initials featured inside the story.
The ever concerned Jonathan Green has assumed the title of Warlock, the name given to the runner of the fightingfantasy.com website, having recently bequeathed the honour from Jamie Fry. He has not only started preparation for a sequel book to You Are The Hero, but has now released tickets for the second dedicated Fighting Fantasy Fest. You can purchase tickets HERE! Yes…I’ll be there!
Andi Ewingtons exciting Freeway Fighter graphic comic take on Ian’s FF classic is now available for preorder at Forbidden Planet and you can reserve yours by clicking HERE! I saw a mention that if these prove successful then other FF comics may surface too!
Jam out.
Well author Jonathan Green has turned me into a proof reading force of nature. Today I played through Tinman Games’ adaptation of The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain. Low and behold, I found this little nugget, seems to be missing the word ‘follow’.
Then this evening I sat down with David Walliams autobiograpgy Camp David, and discovered line two say ‘he’ instead of ‘her’.
Back to The Warlock though, I finally progressed to the place where Zagors Crypt contain a book and look who’s second on the list 😉 Im beaming with pride yet again and feel im official Fighting Fantasy merchandise myself haha.
Wrote a couple of jokes myself recently so spread them round 😉
Saw two stick insects making love the other day. They eventually caught fire.
I always worried what my teacher told the head teacher about me so I filled her fountain pen with phosphor. She wrote a glowing report about me
Yup, ill not give up my day job!
Been rather flattered this week. Ive recieved a dedication in a book but I cant really speak about it right now as its still in production stages. I feel rather proud. Today is my first day off work, as im using up the leave I have left over. Vics got sky now, the internet isn’t working but the tv plans active. Means I should get Walking Dead back, but for tonight im looking forward to #HotFuzz at 9pm
Theres much to do while im off. Painting, laying a carpet, check up at docs. If only I could win the.lottery I can get out of all that 
The last few hours have been rather exciting for me. When I was about 11 years old, my ‘then’ brother in law had managed to pick up a 48k Spectrum computer. For several weeks throughout the summer holidays I’d go round my sisters and have a game of Saboteur II. Remember it? The sequel to Clive Townsend’s masterpiece, Saboteur.
By todays standard you probably wouldn’t appreciate the impact it had on me, but it brought me and inlaw closer together although being a bellend he was still full of front and bullshit. I digress. We enjoyed this action adventure where we played some kind of stealth assassin. (The sister of the previous Saboteur). Starting off on a hang glider was origional to say the least, and you had to wait a certain amount of screens for a safe enough leap off. Jump too soon and you’ll fall several hundred feet onto a craggy cliff.
Once you have leapt off safely, the adventure begins. You need to infiltrate a huge enemy compound (much larger than the origional) fight your way past armed guards and viscous pumas (wtf), locate a dozen or so bits of paper hidden about the complex, deactivate a huge silo, find the lower levels while you dodge vampire bats, and escape on a motorbike. What a rush!!
Canny players will draw a map or direction list as they play. I do remember managing to escape, but only my inlaw found all bits of paper and deactivate the silo. It took him three hours apparently and even then his friend lent a map to him.
This game had everything, even the graphics improved on the origional, the pace of the hero, the flying kicks and somersaults and general flow were all nice and smooth. The pumas were especially fun to watch, and when you killed them left you feeling a wee bit guilty. (If you have any conscience at all)
It was a great privilege to chat breifly to Clive Townsend himself and if you are also a fan then check out his website clivetownsend.com for news and the saboteur goody shop. He is currently working on bringing Saboteur II to an app format having already released the first. I will certainly be waiting in the shadows for this! Goodluck Clive.
Jam out.
Well…. aren’t the IMPS doing well eh? 3-2 against Woking and our mate won I couple of hundred on a result bet. I must say it’s great to see ones hometown doing so well. Short but sweet, Jam out!
Clues in the title really. This is only the second post ive made to the blog this year. Forgive me it’s been all go. We’ve been poorly, we’ve been unlucky and we’ve also had a bereavement lately. There are never any ways to get through unhappiness easily, as I’ve covered before when I’ve spoken about depression. You really do need to immerse yourself in activity…preferably with people around.
On a cheerier note, we got round to learning the #Zombies card game yesterday to take our mind off things. Its never gonna win best game ever awards but it really is fun and quite simple to play. Would recommend it.
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