Lonewolf DS
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Jaded GD Join Date: 2004-08-22 Member: 30793Members, Constellation
Jaded GD Join Date: 2004-08-22 Member: 30793Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">Gamebook for the Nintendo Dual Screen</div>Just stumbled across this on the <a href="http://www.moddb.com/games/10069/lonewolf-ds-flight-from-the-dark" target="_blank">Mod Database</a> DS news section.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->This project has begun as a way to learn how to program on the Nintendo DS. After seeing how the DS was used vertically as a book by some famous games, I thought it would be really cool to have some old gamebooks converted on this system.
Unfortunately, due to copyright issues, it was not really easy to find good contents to use as a working base. Then I found the Project Aon site, which offered many books from the award-winning Lone Wolf series, fully converted to HTML by some loving fans.
For those who didn't know about Gamebooks, they were novels which had a nice success during the 80's, and which were allowing the readers to choose their own path by jumping from one numbered section to another, in a fun and interactive way. They were introducing the concepts of inventory, enemies fights, random dice results, and other nice ideas which were the precursors of what we find today in role playing video games.
The philosophy behind the port of the Lone Wolf books to the DS is to let the console handle all the rules related to combats, stats and so on, so the player can be really immersed in the story and doesn't need to bother with the gameplay elements.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you're still baffled, this video should explain things:
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The graphical interface is:
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/screenshots.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/pics/intro-thumb.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />pretty<img src="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/pics/inventory-thumb.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />freakin<img src="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/pics/battle-thumb.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />awesome<img src="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/pics/character-sheet-thumb.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a></div>
So if you have a DS and flashcard, or a DS emulator, you can try this out for free by clicking the link of awesome below:
<a href="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/index.php" target="_blank">Lonewolf DS</a>
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->This project has begun as a way to learn how to program on the Nintendo DS. After seeing how the DS was used vertically as a book by some famous games, I thought it would be really cool to have some old gamebooks converted on this system.
Unfortunately, due to copyright issues, it was not really easy to find good contents to use as a working base. Then I found the Project Aon site, which offered many books from the award-winning Lone Wolf series, fully converted to HTML by some loving fans.
For those who didn't know about Gamebooks, they were novels which had a nice success during the 80's, and which were allowing the readers to choose their own path by jumping from one numbered section to another, in a fun and interactive way. They were introducing the concepts of inventory, enemies fights, random dice results, and other nice ideas which were the precursors of what we find today in role playing video games.
The philosophy behind the port of the Lone Wolf books to the DS is to let the console handle all the rules related to combats, stats and so on, so the player can be really immersed in the story and doesn't need to bother with the gameplay elements.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you're still baffled, this video should explain things:
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The graphical interface is:
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/screenshots.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/pics/intro-thumb.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />pretty<img src="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/pics/inventory-thumb.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />freakin<img src="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/pics/battle-thumb.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />awesome<img src="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/pics/character-sheet-thumb.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a></div>
So if you have a DS and flashcard, or a DS emulator, you can try this out for free by clicking the link of awesome below:
<a href="http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/index.php" target="_blank">Lonewolf DS</a>
Comments
Ofcourse I guess that's really all it's got going for it.
quake
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wolf3d
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doom
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WC3: DoTA
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WC3: Tower Defense
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World of Warcraft ...via Win2DS (heh, you thought it would work on a 67mhz cpu?)
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I'm still playing Phoenix Wright: Just for All xD