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Salutations Dungeoneers! My name is Dave While I enjoy reading more then ever, nothing

Bailey and I am married 24 years (2024) and have beats the idea of having different options and

a daughter at age 22. We live in South Miami for endings for a game. Demons & Dungeoneers

over 2 decades. What are seasons again? Gamebooks are not truly in the essence of what
traditional gamebooks are because it is pretty
You might be curious on how I ended up writing straight forward, but there are some freedom of

interactive fiction. decisions to make while playing them. It is more

I was a gamebook junkie in the early 80s, which visual appealing then story driven, yet if you

led me to enjoy reading more as I grew up. have a great imagination you can still use

Gaming was not popular in the schools I went to, your imagination in the stories I
On a good day, I would get someone to play write. Did that make sense?

Monopoly. What was popular was the Atari 2600 Probably not! What I am saying is
(Pitfall, Donkey Kong, Ali Baba and the Forty less words, more visual, and a lot of

thieves) and hitting the big arcade hobby stores, dice rolling! I do plan to write a

putting in a quarter to play Galaga. more story driven gamebook in the

I loved Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop near future that has more words

games, but the task of getting a group together and less illustrations on each page.

was close to impossible or I didn’t advertise We shall see how that goes! Thank

myself well enough. That could be it, also. The you for your support. It really
schools I attended had most of the students means a lot to me. . If you want to

interested in sports for scholarship programs. see videos or what my next projects

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