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By mid-2016, the app had 700 stories written by professional authors and 9,000 stories written by users. [10] Hooked had 1.8 million downloads by 2016 [7] and 20 million download as of 2017, which generated $6.5 million in revenue. [12] The response to Hooked prompted others to create similar text-message based short story apps, like Yarn and ...
The first chat fiction platform, Hooked, was created by Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, who were writing a novel and decided to do A/B testing to gauge reader preferences. . They found that most of their target audience of teenagers failed to finish 1,000-word excerpts of best-selling young-adult novels, but read through stories of the same length written as text message conversations.
There are varied genres of online text-based roleplaying, including fantasy, drama, horror, anime, science fiction, and media-based fan role-play. Role-playing games based on popular media (for example, the Harry Potter series) are common, and the players involved tend to overlap with the relevant fandoms.
A reviewer for Next Generation scored the compilation a perfect five out of five stars. He praised the "functionally comprehensive" selection of Infocom games and the six Interactive Fiction Competition games, estimated the total playtime at 1,200 hours minimum, and said the gameplay "represents the pinnacle of well written, interactive fiction."
The books involve a branching path format in order to move between sections of text, but the reader creates a character as in a role-playing game, and resolves actions using a game-system. Unlike role-playing solitaire adventures, adventure gamebooks include all the rules needed for play in each book.
Thousands of Americans woke up Thursday morning to unexplained out-of-context text messages, thanks to a strange glitch that left the internet baffled.
Dread is a short (one session) horror role-playing game. [1] In addition to the book of rules, players also need to have a Jenga tower (not supplied with the game), which takes the place of dice for action resolution. Dread has no fixed setting and can be used in any place or time in which a horror game is appropriate. [2]
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