Our 8th Orlandes based Gamebook Adventures app, and sequel to “An Assassin Orlandes” needs a title and we need your help! We’ve been back and forth with a number of names for some time now and can’t decide. We want it to match with the original, so either “A <something> in Orlandes” or “An Assassin <something something>”.

The sequel is a follow-on story from the first book where you yet again find yourself up against an assassin (known for wearing a black helmet). This time they are aiming at those around you, namely members of your old adventuring group (The Death Hawks – NOTE: This may be renamed). You must track down this mysterious murderer as well as solve the mystery of a strange drought and the re-appearance of some strange creatures that walk the land!

So please fill in the survey below. If you supply your email address you’ll be entered into a draw to win some free Tin Man Games apps (we may also throw in some physical goodies too!)

 We look forward to seeing the result!

It’s time to return to Ian Livingstone’s Forest of Doom!

Tin Man Games’ third Fighting Fantasy digital gamebook app, The Forest of Doom, arrives on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad today, following a recent Android release on Google Play and the Amazon Appstore for Android.

Smart phone and tablet users can now take part in one of the classic gamebook experiences that introduced a whole generation to fantasy role-playing games back in 1983! Proudly displaying an animated version of Iain McCaig’s iconic cover of the Shape Changer, the app allows readers to risk the unknown perils of Darkwood Forest with a desperate quest against time to find the missing pieces of the legendary Hammer of Stonebridge.

Ian Livingstone, co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy series and author of The Forest of Doom, said: “For those people coming back to Darkwood Forest after a 30 year absence, I hope the experience is as enjoyable as it was the first time around. The forest has certainly been brought to life in this brilliantly executed digital version by Tin Man Games.”

Fans will also be able to read Ian’s historical notes on the thinking behind the concept of The Forest of Doom and the naming of its principal character, the grand wizard Yaztromo. He continues: “For those of you entering Darkwood Forest for the first time – good luck! Might I suggest you are nice to Yaztromo. He’s my friend.”

Tin Man Games has taken the classic Fighting Fantasy solo adventure and transformed it into an interactive digital experience, using their critically acclaimed gamebook engine. With animated page-turning, dynamic links, an automated adventure sheet to show changing stats and display magical treasures, the reader can also roll physics-based 3D dice to bravely battle the creatures found within Darkwood Forest.

The Forest of Doom app makes good use of the latest smart phone and tablet hardware, using the increased screen space of tablets to read horizontally or vertically. A retro mode has been included for nostalgic Fighting Fantasy fans, which displays Malcolm Barter’s classic black and white illustrations, while those readers who want full colour can see those same images beautifully rendered by John-Paul Bove, notable colourist in recent Transformers comics.

Darkwood Forest is a tricky place to find your way around, so a new game engine feature is the addition of a map that auto-updates as you travel from location to location. Neil Rennison, creative director for Tin Man Games, said: “We listened to the fans who wanted more mapping within the Fighting Fantasy apps and we felt that it was a perfect addition to The Forest of Doom. Looking to the future, we plan to make more of this feature for upcoming FF titles.”

Fighting Fantasy: The Forest of Doom  is now available to download from the iOS App Store, Google Play and Amazon Appstore for Android. It costs $5.99 USD/£3.99/ 5,49 €.

The Two Towers

It’s been a fun month in Tin Man Towers (which incidently resemble a certain Yaztromo’s Tower) as we’ve been putting the finishing touches to The Forest of Doom, our third Fighting Fantasy release based on Ian Livingstone’s classic gamebook from 1983. This is a gamebook close to our hearts as for many of us it set in motion not only our love affair for gamebooks, but a love affair for fantasy based RPGs and the fantasy genre in general. Our heart’s have been warmed to see all the messages from nostalgic FF fans really looking forward to reading this again and also feel that this book was a precursor to bigger things in their lives. For many of us growing up in the 80s, The Lord of the Rings was an unwieldy tome that we desperately wanted to read, yet struggled to do. The Fighting Fantasy series bridged that gap and helped us get a fantasy fix of sword and sorcery all packaged up in a readable form that also doubled as a game – a winning combination!

We’ve really been keen to keep the gamebook as faithful as possible and while we may approach some of the other FF titles slightly differently, we wanted The Forest of Doom to really tick that  nostalgic box for readers. For that reason we have gone with Iain McCaig’s iconic cover of the Shape Changer, bringing it to life for the main menu and including all the original artwork and sticking closely to the overall structure of the story. We’ve made a few changes, most notably the ending, which many eagle-eyed FF fans may spot and also added in a map, which automatically updates as you travel around Darkwood Forest. Ian Livingstone has also written a wonderful extra for the app that tells the story of how The Forest of Doom came to be!

We released the app quietly to Google Play last week, which we like to do sometimes to build up early support. So far we’ve had a great response – lots of lovely 5 star reviews! The Forest of Doom will appear in the next couple of weeks on the Apple and Amazon App Stores.

Dredd hits Droid!

It’s been a long time coming but we were eventually able to finally release Judge Dredd: Countdown Sector 106 last week on Google Play. Our original license deal with Rebellion was for iOS only so we needed to clear that small legal hurdle and then it needed to be converted to our new Unity engine to get it working on Android. So we’re really sorry if it took longer than planned! We promise that our sequel Judge Dredd: The Dark will release simultaneaously across iOS and Android.

Tin Man Games envahit France!

As many of our followers know, we having a special relationship with Studio 09 in France. They’ve been behind the French translations of GA1, GA2 and most recently Gamebook Adventures 7: Le Temple du Dieu Araignée on iOS. Over the last few months they’ve been helping us bring Le Manoir de l’Enfer (House of Hell) to iOS and Android using a licensed translation that we secured from Gallimard in France, publishers of Défis Fantastiques (Fighting Fantasy) as part of their Livres dont vous êtes le héros gamebook range. This is a great deal for us as Gallimard will help promoting our French FF apps in France too!

Not only have Studio 09 been instrumental in translations and editing, but they’ve also been working hard on writing their own series of gamebooks that we are publishing over the next year or so. The first of these books is called Les Fils d’Uruzimé (Sons of Urizime) and as we did with TFOD above, we have had an early release on Google Play. You can find out more about the interactive Lovecraftian adventure here, and if you’re a French reader who owns an Android device then you get it from Google Play now!

Le Manoir de l’Enfer will be appearing as a language choice in the next Android and iOS update. Les Fils d’Uruzimé will hit the iOS App Store in a few weeks and an English version will be available later this year.

Holdfast kicks butt

As you will have recently seen, we’ve teamed up with Black Chicken Studios in San Diego in bringing their upcoming gamebook, Holdfast, to digital devices. This deal was dependent on them reaching their goal on Kickstarter – they were asking to raise $20k USD – and we are really pleased to see that they not only crossed that threshold, but smashed it by over $10k! Congratulations to them and we look forward to working with the team later on this year in realising their amazing gamebook on iOS and Android.

Blood of the Zombies featured on Google Play!

We’re chuffed to bits with this. As you may know being featured means that we get visibility to a number of Android owners who may not have heard of Tin Man Games, Fighting Fantasy or even digital gamebooks before. To celebrate we’ve halved the price of both Blood of the Zombies and House of Hell for a week!

In the news…

Neil was recently interviewed for an article about digital gamebooks:

Venture Beat – Not just digital books: How action and innovation are reviving text adventures

The Forest of Doom and Judge Dredd on Android get a mention on Pocket Gamer:

Pocket Gamer: Tin Man Games confirms Fighting Fantasy: The Forest of Doom will be available on Android later this week

The Guardian include The Forest of Doom as part of their Android release Top 20:

The Guardian: 20 best Android apps this week

The Forest of Doom is included in with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warhammer Quest and Phoenix Wright in Pocket Gamer’s Game of the Week comp:

Pocket Gamer – iOS and Android Game of the Week

(NOTE: We won’t win that one, but what company to be in!)

In Development…

We’ve got a number of titles currently underway. Our next Fighting Fantasy title will be Steve Jackson’s superhero romp, Appointment with FEAR! We may have mentioned before working on Deathtrap Dungeon but we’ve decided for a number of reasons (we won’t go into them right now) that we’re going to hold off from fully developing that title until later this year or in early 2014. We’ll let you know more information on that when we have it!

Next up is our first fantasy Gamebook Adventures title in more than a year (can you believe that?), currently titled Assassin 2. We’re about 70% complete and will be talking more about that soon! In fact we may need YOUR help in finding a good title for it – watch this space.

Gary Chalk’s Gun Dogs and Strange Loves 2: Hex Boyfriends are also on the development slab and motoring along at full speed. Finally, we’ve also got Infinite Universe coming to Android too in the next few months.

Lots of to look forward to. Have a fantastic June!

Well that was a bit bloody sneaky! As we’ve been promising for ages, our critically acclaimed digital gamebook, Judge Dredd: Countdown Sector 106 is now available for all your fancy Android devices. We’re really proud of this app, especially as it  received some fantastic reviews when it was released on iOS last year. It also sits on the iOS App Store with average of 4.5/5 star reviews!

PocketGamer Review – “Funny, rewarding, and pleasantly violent, Judge Dredd: Countdown Sector 106 replaces the rattle of gunfire with the rattle of dice, and it just works.” – 8 out of 10! PocketGamer Silver Award!

Gamezebo Review – “With their latest release, Tin Man Games have proven that they can handle existing characters just as well as they do heroes of their own creation.  Do yourself a favor – quit reading my words and start reading theirs.” – 4.5 out of 5 stars!

Wired Review – “With a new Judge Dredd movie coming out in little more than a month, this Gamebook really fired me up and got me in the mood. (I even told my kids “I am the law” at bedtime.) And, because each time you read the book it has the potential for a different storyline and ending, Judge Dredd: Countdown Sector 106 is a steal at $4.99 in the iTunes store.”

148 Apps Review – “It all makes for a game that’s tough to criticize. As an adventure game book, Judge Dredd: Countdown Sector 106 succeeds very well and I suspect Judge Dredd fans will adore it all the more.” – 4 out of 5 stars!

Starburst Magazine Review – “By Grud, its good.” – 8 out of 10!

DOWNLOAD IT NOW ON GOOGLE PLAY!

Sector 106 of Mega-City One is short of senior Street Judges and only the most experienced Judges have been reassigned to fill this shortfall…foremost among them yourself, Dredd! What begins as a routine patrol arresting juves and skysurfers, turns into a race against time, as mysterious “Voices of Dredd” find their way into the hands of the local perps. Riding your Lawmaster bike and armed with your trusty Lawgiver, you must pit yourself against Sector 106′s brutal criminal underworld. Quick Dredd! The countdown has begun…

 

In Fighting Fantasy news we’ve been inundated with questions surrounding the release of Ian Livingstone’sThe Forest of Doom, our third digital gamebook in the series. The wait is nearly over and the app will be coming to Google Play next week, followed by a release for Apple fans a couple of weeks later! We’ve been adding in a cool new auto-mapping feature, which had meant a little bit development time was needed than we had planned. We’re really pleased with how it’s turned out and hoping that nostalgic Fighting Fantasy fans will love returning again to Darkwood Forest, a place that many say started their love affair for fantasy role-playing games. We’ll give you more info as we have it!

We’re no stranger to Kickstarter projects having recently developed and published Trial of the Clone for iOS and Android, so when the Dwarven Lords over at Black Chicken Studios contacted us to work with them on their latest Kickstarter, we grabbed our battleaxes, combed our beards, then sat down and started singing about gold. (*ahem* reference to all you old early 80s text-based adventure game geeks )

So, behold Holdfast: A Gamebook of Dwarven Vengeance! Down in the deeps of the Stormwall mountains lay vast kingdoms of worked stone, jeweled lanterns and polished axes. Gon Durul, Halsond and the Westerdeep…their proud halls are no more: their great treasuries laid bare, their warriors slain at the gates, and their crowns hidden away in Seven Helms.

Clanless though you may be, the fires of anger against those that have stolen from, shamed and injured your people burn as hot in you as in any dwarf. Now, the tale can be told of how a chance discovery in a forgotten tomb will lead you to a ruined fortress, and how, through courage, battle and cunning you will carve out a Holdfast of your people in the Deeps!

We’ll be working with Black Chicken Studios to bring the gamebook to iOS, Android and desktop, using our gamebook engine to take their booky version into the digital realm. To do this though, BCS still need your help to raise $20,000. Check out their Holdfast Kickstarter page for more details about the project! Currently they’ve raised just over $7000 and have 22 days left, so YOU can make the difference.

Black Chicken have already started carving out their dwarven landscape and you can follow their many updates about the project here. Current updates tell the tale of Runbrida Vengeance-Taker (illustrated above) as well as the Holdfast drinking game (for responsible adults of course)!

We’re currently in the last throes of testing, so we thought it would be nice to reveal a couple of screenshots from The Forest of Doom! Enjoy.

Yet another month draws to a close and the Tin Men and Minions have been busy on a number of upcoming gamebook projects, as well as doing our usual app promotional activities. Here’s a rundown of what’s been going on this month!

RELEASE THE CLONE!

So April saw our big release of Zach Weinersmith’s Trial of the Clone, which was very well received and chalked up a number of glowing reviews across the interwebz! It was a staggered release across Google Play first, which coincided with our attendence at PAX East, and then later released across the iOS App Store and later, Amazon Appstore for Android and Nook Apps.

Highlights of the release, other than the great reviews, was our Pocket Gamer ‘Game of the Week’ (due we think to our awesome Facebook following) and the our rankings in the Books category of the iOS App Store. We reached to #1 in the UK iPhone Books chart for a couple of days (as well as Finland strangely) and climbed as high as #5 in the US iPhone Books chart too – also charting at #2 in Canada and New Zealand. We also had a strong showing in the iPad charts too, which overall catapulted Trial of the Clone into the Overall Apps charts in a few countries.

So what does this mean for sales? Well, seeing as Books is a relatively new category for us, we can now see how many gamebooks we need to sell to scale that chart. We did notice a quick drop-off should numbers dip, even slightly. Overall it was a good insight into a side of the iOS App Store that we’ve not visited very often. Time will tell whether we go into Books again, or stay in the Games category. One thing we’re pretty sure of is that because of the age rating, it probably won’t be featured, which is a shame considering we got press coverage everywhere.

As a final treat, Zach Weiner made a hop over to the UK from the US last week and hung out with Neil, who is currently based there for a short time. The aim was to throw as much Englishness at Zach as possible, which was achieved we think. You can’t go wrong with an old thatched pub in the middle of the countryside called The Green Dragon.

WE CAN SEE THE WOOD DESPITE THE TREES!

Talking of forests and dragons, The Forest of Doom is about 95% complete for Android and iOS. We know we said in our last round-up that we would like to see a release in April, but sadly that hasn’t happened, so we’re really sorry about that. This is due to a number of factors, one of which we can’t discuss. We can reveal we have spent the last two weeks working on something that, if it comes off, is very cool and will be a big boost to Tin Man Games in the future.

So expect to see The Forest of Doom making the news on the blog in the next few weeks!

RECENT INTERVIEWS

Neil has been in a chatty mood recently and has been interviewed a LOT! If you’re interested in hearing/reading about our history, how we work and a bit about our future titles then check out the links below:

Pocket Gamer – How Melbourne became mobile’s secret success story

Digitally Downloaded – Interview: Tin Man Games on making a successful career out of the dead gamebook genre

Padvance – Neil Rennison interview – Tin Man Games, Trial of the Clone, and using your fingers as save games

Lloyd of Gamebooks – April A to Z – T is for Tin Man Games

Press 2 Reset – 92nd Transmission (audio podcast)

WE DIDN’T WIN, BUT WE DID GET THIS!

It’s our second year in the Pocket Gamer Awards. Last year we were undone by a pesky elf dressed in green and this year we have been undone by one of our own undead kind in the form of The Walking Dead!

We’ll let them off though, not because of their undead status, but more because we love the comic-books and the game is pretty awesome too. *grumble grumble*

IN DEVELOPMENT…

As previously mentioned, we’re currently finishing off The Forest of Doom. We’re also racing through our development of Deathtrap Dungeon too and hope to have that released in June! Fighting Fantasy fans will be keen to know that Appointment with FEAR and The Citadel of Chaos are also in full development.

French gamebook fans can also join in the FF fun soon as Le Manoir de l’Enfer is entering the last stages of testing and will arrive as an update to the iOS and Android versions soon. This will be followed by our first Gamebook Adventures Choices gamebook apps, Les Fils d’Uruzimé, a French-only gamebook put together by the awesome Studio 09 team. To find out more about that, check out our blog post here.

If you’re a fan of 80′s gamebooks then you’ll also be pleased to hear that Gary Chalk’s Gun Dogs and Grailquest 1: The Castle of Darkness are also now in development!

Finally, for all you Strange Loves: Vampire Boyfriends fans out there, Miellyn and Lacy are currently editing our second book in the series Hex Boyfriends! For more info on that then check our blog post here.

INCOMING…

As well as all the things we’ve discussed here, we have our Dredd team producing some amazing work for our Judge Dredd sequel, The Dark (more on that in the next couple of months). We also have 3 Gamebook Adventures titles incoming and nearly have all the artwork completed for those, which look amazing!! Further afield, we’re taking part in a couple of Kickstarter projects to be announced and we’re also in discussions about licensing some other old gamebook series’. All will be revealed if, and when that happens.

Stay tuned gamebookers!

 

Okay, well maybe not all of them! But we have put a large amount of our digital gamebooks on sale for a week (until the end of Tues 2nd May). Check out the iOS App Store and Google Play for these awesome deals!

Gamebook Adventures 1: An Assassin in Orlandes -> $5.99 > $2.99

Gamebook Adventures 2: The Siege of the Necromancer -> $5.99 > $2.99

Gamebook Adventures 3: Slaves of Rema -> $5.99 > $2.99

Gamebook Adventures 4: Revenant Rising -> $5.99 > $2.99

Gamebook Adventures 5: Catacombs of the Undercity -> $5.99 > $2.99

Gamebook Adventures 6: The Wizard from Tarnath Tor -> $5.99 > $2.99

Gamebook Adventures 7: Temple of the Spider God -> $5.99 > $2.99

Judge Dredd: Countdown Sector 106 -> $5.99 > $2.99

Fighting Fantasy: Blood of the Zombies -> $5.99 > $2.99

Strange Loves 1: Vampire Boyfriends -> $2.99 > $0.99

Trial of the Clone, our iOS and Android app based on the wonderfully funny gamebook written by Zach Weinersmith and narrated by Wil Wheaton has been available on Google for a few weeks now as well as hitting the iOS App Store and Amazon App Store a week or so ago. In that time we’ve had a great response from our fans as well as fans who read Zach’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic! As is usual with a new release, we like to collate all the reviews and articles that have been published about the app from around the crazy interwebz.

REVIEWS

Pocket Gamer – “A hilariously entertaining new addition to the gamebook genre, Trial of the Clone is a brilliant way to spend a rainy afternoon” – 8/10 – Silver Award!

148Apps – “I won’t dawdle with getting this out there: I love Trial of the Clone. It made me laugh numerous times and it made me want to replay it many, many times just so I could see how things could work out differently. It’s simply brilliant.” – 4.5/5 – Editor’s Choice!

Gamezebo – “If you like the sense of humour, you’ll find this absolutely hilarious. Lengthy, solid story with excellent replay value for a gamebook.” – 4.5/5

Boing Boing – “I’ve finally gotten around to reading my copy and it’s an absolute delight.” (review based on the paperback version)

Android Rundown – “Lots of varying play, cool media and a funny story.” – 8.5/10

Hardcore Droid – “…interactive fiction on the Android doesn’t get any better than this.” – 3/5

Just Press Start – “If I really wanted to be lazy, I could summarize my review for Tin Man Games’ newest app Trial of the Clone like this: Buy the damn thing- NOW.”

GeekDad – “This story touches so many GeekDad hotspots, there is a possibility that this post may self-implode in the awesomeness described here. Page after page, choice after choice, Trial of the Clone is very funny. The result is a glorious experience.”

Gamezone – “If you enjoyed these types of books from childhood, then you should definitely experience them in mobile-app form at least once. It’s a great way to spend a lazy afternoon.”

Digitally Downloaded – “Oh, and there’s an option to “Turn Wil Wheaton” on. Select it and the voice of Wesley Crusher will narrate the entire book to you. There ya go. Now you have to buy it.” – 4/5

Sydney Morning Herald – “This title should appeal to a wide audience. Fans of comedic science fiction, such as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Red Dwarf, and Hyperdrive should definitely have a look, and anyone who enjoys Weiner’s webcomics should also be an easy sell. It also reads well as a loving parody of gamebooks in general, so fans of Tin Man’s Gamebook Adventures or the Fighting Fantasy series are bound to enjoy it. Really, though, if you’re just looking for a laugh, you would be hard pressed to find a better buy for only four bucks.”

Stromstock (German) – “Those able to cope with the English language, are open-minded and fancy quirky humour, will find Trial of the Clone entertains them for hours.” – 4/5 (English translation)

Starburst Magazine – “Our personal high points are when the author breaks the fourth wall and insults the reader directly…” – 8/10

App Champ – “An addictive game that will advise you to play by the rules but totally lures you to cheat, if you are smart enough!”

Casual Gameplay (JayIsGames) – “If you know Zach or SMBC, then it should come as no surprise that Trial of the Clone is frakking hilarious.”

OTHER COVERAGE

Pocket Gamer – GAME OF THE WEEK!

Touch Arcade – New Tin Man Games Gamebook ‘Trial of the Clone’ Now Available, Features Narration by Wil Wheaton

App Spy – Trial of the Clone hits the App Store

VG24/7 – Trial of the Clone out now from Tin Man, SMBC creator, Wil Wheaton

Portable Gaming Region – “Listen to Wil Wheaton whisper things” in Trial of the Clone

Starburst Magazine – Gaming News: TRIAL OF THE CLONE Released on iOS & Android

Mighty Mega – Wil Wheaton narrates mobile game, Trial of the Clone

Padvance – Trial of the Clone brings you a traditional gamebook adventure, narrated by Wil Wheaton

Pocket Gamer – Don’t get too distracted by Wil Wheaton’s dulcet tones in new interactive iOS and Android novel Trial of the Clone

App Addict – ‘Trial of The Clone’ Gamebook From Tin Man Games and Zach Weinersmith Now Available w/ Narration By Wil Wheaton

MCV Pacific – Trial of the Clone released today

100% Indie – Cult Interactive Ebook Trial of the Clone on Samsung Apps

AppMyWorld – Top 5 iPhone and iPad Apps of the Week (5/9/13)

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We’ll update this blog post with any new reviews and features as they appear!

It’s time to become a bold intergalactic hero as the creator of the popular Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic, Zach Weinersmith, joins forces with Tin Man Games and releases his choosable pathway gamebook in magnificent app form. Trial of the Clone is now officially released as a universal app on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, following the Android release on Google Play, Amazon Appstore and Nook Apps.

You are a clone raised by the mysterious Silene Monks. Once the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, they have long since been superseded by modern technology. Now they spend most of their time hanging out and playing video games. But you are not like the rest of your clone brothers. You have been chosen for a special destiny. Make the right decisions and you’ll complete your training, explore a universe full of adventure, and prove yourself a hero. Make the wrong decisions and you’ll be dead. Really dead. It’s hard to emphasise just how dead you will be. So here’s a pro tip for you: try to make the right decisions.

Using their critically acclaimed gamebook engine, Tin Man Games has taken Zach’s hilarious interactive science-fiction adventure story, which was part-funded through Kickstarter, and transformed it into a digital experience on smartphones and tablets. Zach Weinersmith said, “Having written the greatest science fiction comedy adventure gamebook this year, I am excited to now have written the greatest science fiction comedy adventure gamebook application this year.”

Not being in paper and now being on your shiny digital computing device of choice, there are dynamic choice links, an automated character sheet that updates your skills, and also a very lovely hypnotic spinny thing that helps randomise numbers to help you win battles of fighting, wits and charisma. There is also the special guest appearance of Wil Wheaton, or Lord Wheaton, the omniscient “God of all Geeks”, as he is better known. Wil narrates the entire book as an option in the app to bring an all new audiogamebook experience to Tin Man Games’ digital gamebook library. Listen to Wil Wheaton whisper things like “love”, “plasmaster”, “moral ambiguity”, and “not in the face” into your ears! The app also contains brand new death endings written by Zach, exclusive to the digital version, as well as bookmarks that can be placed to remember your path, so you don’t get too annoyed when you read Zach’s new death endings.

With a specially composed soundtrack, new colour artwork by Chris Jones and lots of achievements and missions to complete, including finding an array of terrible jokes, puns and pointless quips said by your character, this is a fantastic science-fiction adventure story to be read by the whole family! Well actually not the whole family, as there’s some dirty jokes and mature content, so it’s intended for 17 years plus. Perhaps it’s not a great idea to let the kids read it.

Trial of the Clone is available to download from the iOS App Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore and Nook Apps. It costs $3.99(US)/$4.49(Aus)/£2.49/ 3,59 €.

Tin Man Games maintain a site dedicated to their Gamebook Adventures apps at www.GamebookAdventures.com.

Zach Weinersmith’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal can be found at www.smbc-comics.com.