Grimrock

Ever since I first saw this game I've had a huge dose of deja-vue, not for the usual first person dungeon crawler games, but something from my childhood. It's been annoying me for months until I found what it was by total chance today..........

I could remember owning a gamebook back in the 80's, kind of like fighting fantasy but with hand drawn, first person views of a dungeon. Then I found it by accident, I'm not sure anyone here would be old enough to remember it, but the book was called 'Combat Heroes - White Warlord' by Joe Dever.



The first person views looked like this .......





You could play single player with this one book, exploring the small dungeon, or have 2 books, White Warlord and Black Baron which let you play a 2 player combat game.

If your interested in looking at them, the author has allowed them to be downloadable as PDF's at this site .....
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/WhiteWarlord

It makes me wonder if someone could do something similar, but much more sophisticated on an e-reader today ?

Hey Pip,

Interesting stuff! I played many of Joe Dever's gamebooks, his Lone Wolf books being my favourites. You can actually play them online to, at the same website you mentioned. I played through several again a year or two ago and had a blast!

I must admit playing them on the internet is handy so you can click the back button should you end up taking a wrong turn and dying!

For anyone interested, here's where you can find them.

http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

Daniel.

Yep, I had these gamebooks. They were OK, but not great. I'm glad that dungeon crawlers came along!

illustrations seems to be very good!