Playing a Gamebook
From TheGamebookEngine
Contents |
Prerequisites
- You must have already Installed The Gamebook Engine.
Starting The Gamebook Engine program
Windows
Unless you opted out of Start Menu shortcuts when installing The Gamebook Engine, there will be a folder in your Start Menu Programs folder called "The Gamebook Engine". Select the shortcut labeled, "Play Flight From The Dark" or "Play Ring of Thieves".
Linux
After downloading and uncompressing The Gamebook Engine archive into your home direcotry, change directory and run the gamebook engine with:
cd gamebook-engine-*/ ./gamebook-engine
You can also load a gamebook from the command line:
./gamebook-engine gamebooks/01fftd/01fftd.gamebook
If you installed The Gamebook Engine with ./install-linux.sh, you can run The Gamebook Engine with the following command: gamebook-engine Additionally, you can load specific gamebooks with either of the following commands:
gamebook-engine-fftd gamebook-engine-rot
Loading a Gamebook
If you have already loaded a gamebook with the command line or a gamebook-specific shortcut, you can skip this section.
To load a gamebook, Select Menu Item Story->Open, and navigate to Ring of Thieves (ring-of-thieves.gamebook) in the gamebooks directory, or Lone Wolf: Flight From the Dark (01fftd.gamebook) in the gamebooks/01fftd directory. If you have written your own gamebook, or downloaded one from another website, you can navigate to that gamebook using the File Dialog, and play it.
Playing a Gamebook
When you first load a gamebook, you will see the first page. For each page, you will be presented with text, and given one or more options, each of which are displayed with a red number. Press the number key corresponding to the option you wish to select. For example, if the following is displayed:
... At the foot of the hill, the path splits into two directions, both leading into a large wood. If you wish to use your Kai Discipline of Sixth Sense, click 1. If you wish to take the right path into the wood, click 2. If you wish to follow the left track, click 3.
then press "1" to use Sixth Sense, "2" to take the right path, or "3" to take the left path. If you wish to restart your game, you can select the Restart menu option.
That is pretty much all there is to playing a gamebook with The Gamebook Engine.
