The <tti> tag now allows you to give readers a box to choose where to turn to next. See the ABML reference for details.

Fighting Fantasy Play system is currently under development, and may unexpectedly error.  This message will be removed from the top splash when development is suspended.

The adventure Charms and Tiny Arrows has now been fully encoded, and mostly play tested (though there may still be bugs please let me know if you find any). Enjoy!

Writers may now generate a XHTML file from their adventures, simply click on the link in your Adventure Creator book listing and save the resulting page 🙂

It’s not perfect, any references that are NOT enumerated (i.e. ‘background’, ‘introduction’, ‘rules’ etc.) will appear in random order previous to the enumerated entries, which WILL be listed in order.  All ‘tt’ tags will be converted to internal anchor links and all other ABML tags will be stripped.  XHTML tags will pass through so your formatting will be safe.

If the random ordering of non enumerated pages is really a problem (i.e. you have a lot of seperate ‘rules’ pages) the file is quite easily edited in a text editor (notepad or similar, I STRONGLY suggest you avoid MS Word or similar if you want to keep your documents net-safe – I haven’t sorted out Unicode handling yet so even compliant editors like OpenOffice will throw in characters I have yet to deal with)

There is now a new feature in the ‘Adventure Creator’ section of the play area – Generate GraphViz DOT code.

If you are unfamiliar with GraphViz, it is a free application you can download from GraphViz.org that generates flowcharts from formatted code.  The link in the adventure creator will generate the necessary DOT code for you from your adventure, all you have to do is paste it into GraphViz and bingo, you will know where you have lost links, unlinked references, and can see the flow of your adventure generally in a very easy to see manner, as you can see above (don’t look too carefully if you want to avoid spoilers!)

The majority of XHTML is now allowed in your ABML documents (i.e. you may now use many html tags when creating your gamebooks).  Please check the ABML Reference under ‘Creating Adventures’ for details.

The mystery characters that have been appearing in adventure text should now be mostly gone (largely smart apostrophes and quotes).  There may still be the odd occasional weird character showing up in places – blame microsoft text editors – let me know what reference and adventure they appear in so I can fix that character type.  If you have difficulty even now with what should be quotes/apostrophes please update your browser (Mozilla Firefox FTW).

“Welcome to Blackheart Asylum” by Julius Lee has been republished in the Hosted section as a turn-to adventure, however there are still some charset issues that make it a touch unpleasant to read that I have yet to fix.

“The Yaethyr Cycle The Achaeid Book 1 The Enriyes”, by Ramsay Duff has been republished in the Hosted section as a turn to only adventure.

“Kill the Beast” by Victor Cheng has been republished as a turn-to only adventure in the Hosted section of the Play area.