Innsmouth: The Stolen Child - A Lovecraft Gamebook
Created by Blue Fox Gamebooks & RPG
A branching narrative gamebook set in Lovecraft's Innsmouth, 15 years before the story - find the child and get out - or die trying!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Early-Bird Rewards Now Active for Monuments gamebook!
6 months ago
– Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 04:45:59 AM
Hi,
I hope you're well.
As a backer for one of our previous gamebooks, I wanted to let you know we've just launched our next campaign for Monuments - A Branching Narrative Gamebook. We've hit the funding goal (in under an hour), and are ticking off stretch goals rapidly!
I'm an avid gamebook fan and creator, who got hooked at the age of 12 and never looked back. Fighting Fantasy was my go-to, but I'm a fan of a range of titles, including Lone Wolf.
It took me a while (okay, 35 years) to complete my first book, Arcane Rites: Cult of the Pajoli, a 700 section dungeon crawl. I followed this with Innsmouth: The Stolen Child, a 600 section Lovecraftian creeping horror.
Monuments is my third gamebook, and once again we're returning to Kickstarter to help raise funds for printing.
For the last couple of years, I've been running a newsletter entitled A Branching Narrative, where I create and share interactive fiction adventures.
Monuments collects the first three of these adventures. If you've played one of our previous gamebooks, you will recognize the rules instantly. All you need to play is a pencil and two six-sided die.
Each reward tier comes with digital adventure sheets you can print out and use so you don't need to write in the book.
To back the project, click or tap on the image above or the link below:
New Gamebook Launching Next Week
6 months ago
– Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 07:11:14 AM
Hi,
I hope you're well.
We're launching my latest gamebook on Kickstarter next week!
Monuments collects 3 adventures - over 550 sections between them!
Quest 1: The Watchtower - The tower is high, though it looked higher before you scaled the rock-face which supports it. You are the advance raider – sent to infiltrate and capture this strategic position, so your colleagues can pass safely through the gate below unnoticed. You have been chosen for your skills, and you must not fail.
It's a difficult task but armed as you are with poison darts and poison tipped daggers, you have a fair chance of success.
You afford yourself a moment to wonder what you are doing. It’s possible, likely even, that this is a one-way mission, but you know what to do in these times of doubt; you think of your friend and of their fate. The anger builds inside, and you let it. You are here to avenge them.
Quest 2: Vents! - You wake with a start, confused by all the noise. There are at least two different alarms blaring, and you can hear people moving around on the ship.
You look towards the compartment door, worried someone may open it and see you lying amongst the light cargo. Clearly, this was not the best space faring vessel to stowaway on.
"Toxic gas detected," a computerised voice announces over the noise. "Venting required."
Then, almost immediately after it, comes another.
"Venting system malfunction."
The perfect solar storm, you think.
Quest 3: Entombed
You awake and everything is dark. The ground beneath you is cold and hard, and when you turn your hands over and press your fingers into it, it feels like stone. Not only, that, but your elbows scrape against more stone either side of you, and the air, well, there's nothing fresh about it.
You push yourself up onto your elbows, and the top of your head brushes the ceiling above. You raise your right hand and feel the stone above you. It's the same when you raise your knee and finally your foot. You are encased in stone.
Have you been buried alive? If so, there's little chance of getting out.
To be in at the start and have access to the discounted rewards, sign up to be notified on launch by clicking the link below or the image above and selecting 'Notify me on Launch'.
We publish new adventures every three months. There is a free tier, which gives you a taster of the adventure, and a paid tier which gives you access to the longer adventure. This month's adventure, 'Webs of Death', runs to 268 sections. Get a paid subscription today and get access to the previous 3 full length adventures, 'The Watchtower', 'Vents!' and 'Entombed!' immediately.
I've also just started a two-weekly series, 'From Mind to Page - The Journey of 1000 Choices', where I go into my methods of creating the books, step-by-step, so that it might demystify the process, and help you write that adventure you were always itching to write!
To subscribe, click or tap on the image above or the link below.
The Mountains of Madness Special Deluxe Edition is here
over 1 year ago
– Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 07:21:06 AM
Hi,
I hope you're well.
As a previous backer of a Lovecraftian book of ours, I wanted to let you know of our upcoming Kickstarter, launching this week!
We're launching a special deluxe edition of our 'The Mountains of Madness' graphic novel by Adam Fyda. We'll have limited rewards as well as early-bird offers, so make sure to click or tap the image above or the link below and then select 'Notify me on Launch'!
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This gamebook is a mix of murder mystery and action adventure gamebook as you explore the island of Dr Flavius Munroe, now deceased, and try to find out which of the invited guests has landed you in the frame for his murder.
I've backed it (and bought the first book), and thought you'd like to grab it, too. Early-bird deals run out soon!
