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I was bored, wanted it to look like a scanned cover.

Everything except the top banner is mine. Used an empty scan from the scanner to create a layer of random marks scanners usually end up with to give it a better look, then lots of layers and fiddling.


And I miss these old books, they were fun back then *sniffles*
 
That is a really cool image..
I thought it really was a scanned book cover, that you'd illustrated in the past or something, but :thumbs:

I remember those cool "Pick your own adventure" books heh
 
bliink said:
That is a really cool image..
I thought it really was a scanned book cover, that you'd illustrated in the past or something, but :thumbs:

I remember those cool "Pick your own adventure" books heh
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hehe thanks :):) I really wish it were real :) I've still got all my collection on the shelf :D

CREMATOR666 said:
Ummmm...nice? :E Why would you do that, tho? :P
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Why not? :)
 
The Dark Elf said:
hehe thanks :):) I really wish it were real :) I've still got all my collection on the shelf :D



Why not? :)
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Answer me first, dammit!!!!! :p
 
The Dark Elf said:
hehe thanks :):) I really wish it were real :) I've still got all my collection on the shelf :D
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lol, really? I reckon I'd have one or two lying about... one is about some kind of race through the sahara or something lol.. ohh memories heh
 
bliink said:
lol, really? I reckon I'd have one or two lying about... one is about some kind of race through the sahara or something lol.. ohh memories heh
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hehehe. My favorite was Beneath Nightmare Castle, lots of creepy stuff. Only got about 24 of them, I think there were over 50 made. Back in the old days before computers could manage anything more than text adventures with a few basic images that would take 2 minutes to draw on screen hehe.

I still read em sometimes too :o :p

CREMATOR666 said:
Answer me first, dammit!!!!! :p
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I did :p I always wished I'd done one for real, this is as close as I'll get, and I happened to have a mountain pic I didn't have a use for so I just used that for the background image and it went from there :)
 
CREMATOR666 said:
Well, I got a hunch that you'll become addicted to these things :P
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become? hehe have been when I was younger and still really like them. More games should be made based on them (and made well not just thrown together in some lousy mod lol)
 
bliink said:
That is a really cool image..
I thought it really was a scanned book cover, that you'd illustrated in the past or something, but :thumbs:

I remember those cool "Pick your own adventure" books heh
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I ended turning into a cat in one of those books :| It hasn't changed me back yet...


*meow* :cat:
 
Danimal said:
I ended turning into a cat in one of those books :| It hasn't changed me back yet...


*meow* :cat:
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I was turned into a smudge on the floor when I walked into a room with extreme gravity, it coulda warned me.

Wow,go0d job ^_^ .
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thanks :)
 
Danimal said:
I ended turning into a cat in one of those books :| It hasn't changed me back yet...


*meow* :cat:
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cool.. I was mumified! :D
 
I was a whale for a while too... Yes, I read wierd books



:|
 
Danimal said:
I was a whale for a while too... Yes, I read wierd books



:|
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In creature of Havok you started out as a creature and had to become human.. apparantly, never finished it.

I'll probably read them again if the power goes out, can't beat reading a good book with snow outside sat infront of a fire :)
 
I wish I could feel snow again, I have only experienced 3 times.
 
heh, I have some of those that I found in my grandparent's house from when my uncles were kids. I always cheated... it'd be like "roll the die and see what happens" and I'd go to the page with the best result :X
 
no piccy and I'm dying to know what this is about. Are we talking the great Ian Livingstone here?
 
What was the name of my favourite one... 'Hell House', or something. Your car broke down in a storm outside some creepy mansion, and you had to survive the night in the place. Or something.

I remember finding a letter opener, and that being my only weapon. And there was something horrid sitting behind the curtain in the same room.

-Angry Lawyer
 
I'm currently writing one of those in a Year 8 History textbook. You know when people write 'turn to page 47' on the bottom of school textbook pages, then 'turn to page 68', then 'turn to page 21' and so on until it goes 'turn to page 94' then 'hah there is no page94 **** you you are gay' or something. Anyway, I'm writing a choose-your-own-adventure. 'If you want to run away, turn to page 37. If you wish to attempt to kill the Orc, turn to page 61'.

/me turns to page 37.

'You are gay. Game over.'
 
Sulkdodds said:
I'm currently writing one of those in a Year 8 History textbook. You know when people write 'turn to page 47' on the bottom of school textbook pages, then 'turn to page 68', then 'turn to page 21' and so on until it goes 'turn to page 94' then 'hah there is no page94 **** you you are gay' or something. Anyway, I'm writing a choose-your-own-adventure. 'If you want to run away, turn to page 37. If you wish to attempt to kill the Orc, turn to page 61'.

/me turns to page 37.

'You are gay. Game over.'
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/me turns to page 61.
 
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^^ is it just me or are they playing rugby against a giant robot? :laugh:

Oh and I have two of the kiddie versions... hmmm... let me see here...

"terror mazia... A maze gamebook"
OOOhh I remember this! you have to trace your way through a maze with your finger, and you go through holes in the page :D

"a puzzling day in the land of the pharoes"
like where's wally but with structured objectives and detailed enviroments... AND IT'S IN EGYPT!!!

oh and this is my favorite... PUZZLE DUNGEON!! It's only ages 4-7, but it's incredibly challenging!!! ...well, ok it was when I was 7 :)
 
The last time I read a book of that type, is was actually Asterix. Heh, it was pretty fun but I think I ended up just reading the whole thing in the end.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
The last time I read a book of that type, is was actually Asterix. Heh, it was pretty fun but I think I ended up just reading the whole thing in the end.
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Yeah that kinda defeats the point somewhat :p
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
The last time I read a book of that type, is was actually Asterix. Heh, it was pretty fun but I think I ended up just reading the whole thing in the end.
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How can you not? You don't want to know what your fate could have been?

I avoid these books like the dickens because of that.

bliink said:

The orc kills you. Game over :P
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Why must you torture me??!?!?!?
 
The Dark Elf said:
AND steve jackson :p
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Ah yes, him too :p
My fave was forest of doom.

Talking of alternative book covers, I painted a Tommyknockers cover when I was young 'n naive and wrote to Stephen King asking if he wanted to use it - didn't know the address so just put: Stephen King, Maine.
He actually replied, even though it was to say 'no thanx'. Still got that letter somewhere.

Film dvd covers are also fun to do :)
 
CR0M said:
Ah yes, him too :p
My fave was forest of doom.

Talking of alternative book covers, I painted a Tommyknockers cover when I was young 'n naive and wrote to Stephen King asking if he wanted to use it - didn't know the address so just put: Stephen King, Maine.
He actually replied, even though it was to say 'no thanx'. Still got that letter somewhere.

Film dvd covers are also fun to do :)
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I think my favorite has to be Beneath Nightmare Castle just cause its got everything in it, seems to have more story than random wandering too, Star Strider and Rings of Kether are pretty neat too.
 
It looks great, but I don't know if I'm convinced that's a particularly chaotic mass of inert rock ;). You should do another one for Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness'. A series of spoof Lovecraftian FF books would actually be pretty cool, you could make a competition out of it (or something similar).

And I don't mean to give the impression that I'm only posting in here to talk about Fighting Fantasy books, but did you guys ever play Legend of the Shadow Warriors? Number 44 in the series, I think. It was the first one I ever bought, and was always my favourite. The setting, the carnival, the Mandrakes, Voivod. It had my favourite ending, too.

Wish I knew that happened to my collection, I'd probably still flick through them every now and again.
 
Orgonomist said:
It looks great, but I don't know if I'm convinced that's a particularly chaotic mass of inert rock ;).
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It's asleep *nods convincingly* lol

Yeah what happened was I'd been doodling that mountain pic, then was snooping around the net, saw a FF book and thought ooh that would be neat to try do, the name came from the citadel of chaos, which was where the green banner came from (I think), the number is wrong for that book but they did change the numbering order at some point which messed up people's collections. So yeah it was mostly just a case of posting something fancier than a simple unfinished mountain doodlesketch.

Orgonomist said:
It looks great, but I don't know if I'm convinced that's a particularly chaotic mass of inert rock ;). You should do another one for Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness'. A series of spoof Lovecraftian FF books would actually be pretty cool, you could make a competition out of it (or something similar).

And I don't mean to give the impression that I'm only posting in here to talk about Fighting Fantasy books, but did you guys ever play Legend of the Shadow Warriors? Number 44 in the series, I think. It was the first one I ever bought, and was always my favourite. The setting, the carnival, the Mandrakes, Voivod. It had my favourite ending, too.

Wish I knew that happened to my collection, I'd probably still flick through them every now and again.
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Nope don't think I got that one, highest I think I have is #36, but there's a couple that have no numbers "Portal of Evil" and Island of the Lizard King

As for the competition thing you mention... hmm, an Art contest for creating all the art in a FF type book.. The fanfiction forum section contest for writing the story, maybe everyone writing parts of it. Then a bigger Art contest for the actual cover of it. Yeah it could be fun :):) Doubt it'll happen though :\ ah well heh.

A lovecraft style FF I think there were a couple done. And anything involving Lovecraft that I would do would likely be Giger style for sure :E hehe.
 
Oh, I didn't mean the whole book. I meant just a competition for the covers themselves. Get people to pick their favourite Lovecraft stories (or it could be anything, really), and make a fake FF cover for it. Sounds almost like it has more SA potential, though, now that I think about it.
 
The illustrations in the FF books were what originally inspired my pen and ink style so many moons ago when I was an illustrator. Still got a load of drawings I did for game rulebooks but no scanner :/
Great idea for a compo though, the cover one AND the entire book with a halflife storyline :D
 
CR0M said:
The illustrations in the FF books were what originally inspired my pen and ink style so many moons ago when I was an illustrator. Still got a load of drawings I did for game rulebooks but no scanner :/
Great idea for a compo though, the cover one AND the entire book with a halflife storyline :D
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those FF illustrations are great, they might not be the best looking cause of the limited printing they could do, but they really added to the story and got your imagination going. They often inspired me but I wasn't too good at the style so it didn't help much hehe.

hmm.. how about a HL2 FF style book? I know im usually against HL2 contest anything, but it could be interesting. Or something really different and imaginative.
 
Nice work TDE, I like how the book isn't perfectly flat underneath the scanner.

One thing though, there seems to be a highlight on the bookcover, from a light, does that happen with scanners? (never use them, ever) More something for photographs?
 
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