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This Book Is A Dungeon [This Dungeon Is A Book] - A Twine Game | Dev Diary | Self-Publishing Experiment | Interactive Fiction
A Twine Game. A Bookumentary. A Self-Publishing Experiment. ALL IN ONE!
This Book Is A Dungeon [This Dungeon Is A Book] is a multi-format creative experiment that merges the worlds of game design, interactive fiction, indie authorship, and self-publishing together in one crazy project.
When you purchase this Kindle book, you become a part of the experiment. You'll get the book detailing the entire process, access to the game itself via a link inside the book, and you'll also be playing a role in shaping the outcome of this unusual self-publishing adventure. Let's break it down a little further:
*NOTE: The game portion of this project is for mature audiences. It contains horror themes, including descriptions of gore, violence, some sexual content, etc. I.E. It's not for kids. *
The Game
Embedded deep inside this book, you'll find a link to the Twine game portion of this project. It's a dark, horror-tinged dungeon crawling adventure that mixes interactive fiction (think: choose your own adventure with slick pixel art) with more traditional RPG game elements.
I developed the game from start to finish in just over a month, learning how to use Twine as I went, and documented the entire process.
The Book
The Kindle book portion of this projects serves a few key purposes.
1) It's the vehicle I've selected for selling and distributing the game, which is fairly unusual.
2) It's a detailed day-to-day development diary that documents the entire process of creating the game, and this entire project/experiment, from start to finish. It's also packed with interesting asides, personal stories, design tips, resources, insider strategies on how I put this thing together, details on my launch strategy, and much more! In it, I talk about the game creation process in-depth, but I also detail how Twine applies to authors and the self-publishing world.
The Experiment
By buying this book, you're supporting the project, and this unusual experiment as a whole (thanks, I appreciate it!). Creating an interactive fiction game, then launching it within a Kindle book is a pretty weird project, but the aim is to experiment and see what might come of cross pollinating tools, thoughts, and resources between the game development and indie authorship worlds.
Twine is a great tool for anyone interested in creating interactive fiction, and its value to both writers and aspiring game developers is pretty substantial. There are also many parallels between the indie game development and self-publishing worlds, and I think this common ground could open the door to some interesting discussion, collaboration, and future innovation.
The goal of this book is start that discussion and offer some entertainment in the process.
Thanks for your support!
Become a part of the experiment today! Scroll up and click "buy"
This Book Is A Dungeon [This Dungeon Is A Book] is a multi-format creative experiment that merges the worlds of game design, interactive fiction, indie authorship, and self-publishing together in one crazy project.
When you purchase this Kindle book, you become a part of the experiment. You'll get the book detailing the entire process, access to the game itself via a link inside the book, and you'll also be playing a role in shaping the outcome of this unusual self-publishing adventure. Let's break it down a little further:
*NOTE: The game portion of this project is for mature audiences. It contains horror themes, including descriptions of gore, violence, some sexual content, etc. I.E. It's not for kids. *
The Game
Embedded deep inside this book, you'll find a link to the Twine game portion of this project. It's a dark, horror-tinged dungeon crawling adventure that mixes interactive fiction (think: choose your own adventure with slick pixel art) with more traditional RPG game elements.
I developed the game from start to finish in just over a month, learning how to use Twine as I went, and documented the entire process.
The Book
The Kindle book portion of this projects serves a few key purposes.
1) It's the vehicle I've selected for selling and distributing the game, which is fairly unusual.
2) It's a detailed day-to-day development diary that documents the entire process of creating the game, and this entire project/experiment, from start to finish. It's also packed with interesting asides, personal stories, design tips, resources, insider strategies on how I put this thing together, details on my launch strategy, and much more! In it, I talk about the game creation process in-depth, but I also detail how Twine applies to authors and the self-publishing world.
The Experiment
By buying this book, you're supporting the project, and this unusual experiment as a whole (thanks, I appreciate it!). Creating an interactive fiction game, then launching it within a Kindle book is a pretty weird project, but the aim is to experiment and see what might come of cross pollinating tools, thoughts, and resources between the game development and indie authorship worlds.
Twine is a great tool for anyone interested in creating interactive fiction, and its value to both writers and aspiring game developers is pretty substantial. There are also many parallels between the indie game development and self-publishing worlds, and I think this common ground could open the door to some interesting discussion, collaboration, and future innovation.
The goal of this book is start that discussion and offer some entertainment in the process.
Thanks for your support!
Become a part of the experiment today! Scroll up and click "buy"
125 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 10, 2015
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About the author
Nathan Meunier
10 books6 followersNathan Meunier is a freelance writer, author, and indie game developer.
For most of the past 10 years, he's covered video games, tech, and geek culture as a freelancer. His work has appeared more than 40 publications, including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer, GameSpot, PlayStation The Official Magazine, EGM, GameSpy, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, and more.
He's the author of The Game Journo Guides Series as well as other books designed to help freelancers, author, and writers of all sorts improve their craft and get their work out into the world.
For most of the past 10 years, he's covered video games, tech, and geek culture as a freelancer. His work has appeared more than 40 publications, including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer, GameSpot, PlayStation The Official Magazine, EGM, GameSpy, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, and more.
He's the author of The Game Journo Guides Series as well as other books designed to help freelancers, author, and writers of all sorts improve their craft and get their work out into the world.
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June 9, 2024
10 years in. Still a great read
Part journal. All heart. Nice to see the timeline of Indy development here and the trials and triumphs. Some of the links are now dead - comes with age - but it is a wonderful dev doc/ book/ experiment.
Part journal. All heart. Nice to see the timeline of Indy development here and the trials and triumphs. Some of the links are now dead - comes with age - but it is a wonderful dev doc/ book/ experiment.
July 3, 2016
Meunier wrote a simple-decision interactive fiction game using Twine (https://twinery.org/). At the same time he was writing his game, he was creating a "bookumentary" about the process. The resulting Kindle book contains the (presumably search-engine-unindexed) URL to the game, so that the sale of the book acts as the mechanism for collecting game revenue. I liked the game (3.5 stars), but gads, I hated the book (2 star).
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