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Major Changes

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Major Changes to ABML are underway, please see the Reference text, in short at this time:

1) There are no longer ANY ‘singleton’ ABML tags, that is, tags that take the form:

<tag />

Instead now use:

<tag></tag>

2) Boolean Attributes in tags are being replaced with true/false values, that is:

<tag attribute></tag>

is becoming:

<tag attribute=”true”></tag>

or

<tag attribute=”false”></tag> (although this is redundant you can just leave the attribute out)

Change (1) site-wide substitutions have been made (that is, all your tags oughht to have been replaced with the new form automatically by my scripts, hopefully). Change (2) has yet to have the substitutions made, however since you OUGHT NOT to be using the Editor whilst I am making my major updates this ought not to concern you yet. Just remember the language changes for future coding.

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Significant Appearance Changes – please use CTRL+F5 in your Browser to see them.

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The Play area and the WordPress Front End have had significant changes (WordPress now fills entire 1920px screen, the Play area is now… different 🙂 ) Normal Refreshing may not work, you will have to use CTRL+F5 to flush the CSS cache on most browsers. Mobile/Tablet users – sorry I have no idea how to help you flush your CSS cache.

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Gamebooks Internationale

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Hello, Bonjour, Hola, Olá, Здравейте, and indeed 你好 🙂

Many will be surprised to learn that gamebooks have a big following outside of the english language. Strangely enough it is not only England and the United States that thought of Interactive Fiction!

Indeed the first I heard of this was with the French website http://www.legrimoire.net/ which contacted me quite some time ago. Shortly after I noticed that https://www.projectaon.org/ has as it’s first page langauge selection between English, Spanish and Italian (in fact I may have noticed this before even the French contacted me, it was along time ago!), so obviously something bigger thanI imagined was already afoot when I started this project.

Since then, especially with the advent of Facebook etc. it has become quite obvious that there are many many fans of Fighting Fantasy and gamebooks generally from all over the world and not just English primary speaking nations. Oscar here at https://fanbooks.fightingfantasy.net is actually based in Portugal, also on our Discord channel is Вилорп and friends from Bulgaria (he is our moderator so be good!) who will probably direct you to http://www.legacyofkreya.com/en/news to start with. Also I have just had word from our man in Ohio in U.S. and A. Guillermo about this YouTube channel and review of Gavin Mitchells Spanish publication of Outsider and fightingfantasy.net Las mejores webs de librojuegos (which is based from the site https://librojuegos.org/) which has some lovely things to say about us here :-)- at least that’s what I am told – my Spanish is no good at all 🙁

Since WordPress does have the capacity to be a multi-site CMS in theory I could make this place multi-lingual. If you are a serious developer interested in helping me do this and have another language in your personal knowledgebase please contact me. Or, if you are interested in your own port of the current gamebook engine to develop your own international site please feel free to enquire. I do not charge, all I ask is patience (a LOT of patience) and creditation.

Lastly if you have an international gamebook site and would like a link sometime (and I mean I may forget to make it for a long time) please feel free to drop me a link to your site any way you can get hold of me 🙂