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Packard and Montgomery took the idea of publishing interactive books to Bantam, and thus the Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) series was born in 1979, beginning with The Cave of Time. The series became immensely popular worldwide and several titles were translated into more than 25 languages. [ 27 ]
Title Author Year 1 The Cave of Time: Edward Packard: 1979 2 Journey Under the Sea: R. A. Montgomery: 1979 3 By Balloon to the Sahara (reissued as Danger in the Desert) : Douglas Terman
The most famous example of this form of printed fiction is the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, and the collaborative "addventure" format has also been described as a form of interactive fiction. [3] The term "interactive fiction" is sometimes used also to refer to visual novels, a type of interactive narrative software popular in Japan.
Edward Packard (born February 16, 1931) is an American author, creator of the Choose Your Own Adventure book concept and author of over 50 books in the series. [1] [2] [3] The genre that Packard invented, in which the reader chooses what happens, has come to be called "interactive fiction". [4]
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Steve Jackson's Sorcery! is a series of interactive fiction adventure video games developed by Inkle, based on the gamebook series of the same name by Steve Jackson. Part 1: The Shamutanti Hills was first released on May 2, 2013, and the series concluded with Part 4: The Crown of Kings on September 22, 2016.
Time Machine is a series of children's novels published in the United States by Bantam Books from 1984 to 1989, similar to their more successful Choose Your Own Adventure line of "interactive" novels. Each book was written in the second person, with the reader choosing how the story should progress.
[1] Choose Your Own Adventure, as published by Bantam Books, was one of the most popular children's series during the 1980s and 1990s, selling more than 250 million copies between 1979 and 1998. [2] The series has been translated into 40 languages.