History Main / ChooseYourOwnAdventure

* In the play ''ShearMadness'', a murder occurs off-stage. In the second act, audience members are allowed to question all of the characters in the play and try to figure out who the murderer is. The ending of the play changes based on what the audience decides.

** ''Liteature/BloodOfTheZombies'', a SpiritualSuccessor to ''House of Hell'' above, is a loving homage/pastiche to Zombie Horror Films.

* Makaka, a French editor, has started a franchise called ''The comic book in which you are the hero'', or also ''ComicBook/DiaryOfAHero'' which is a series of CYOA in comic book form. The books exploit heavily this nature by hiding items or instructions for better paths in the drawings, involving the player in a deeper way than a prose book. For now, we have:
** ''Knights'', the story of three brothers who want to become knights in the medieval kingdom of the king Louietheflea.
*** ''Knights 1'': The three brothers join the academy of knights, and must succeed the ritual of admission. In terms of gameplay, it's a classical gamebook with stats, items to find...
*** ''Knights 2: The missive'': The three brothers, now knights-in-training, are charged of bringing an important missive to the king of the neighbor kingdom. Adds a fighting and XP system.
*** ''Knights: The buried city'' (TBA): A side-quest to the book 2, where the trio explores a mysterious, abandoned city.
*** ''Knights: Princess Gragea'' (TBA): Another side-quest to the book 2, where the trio goes to rescue the daughter of the Orc King from bandits.
*** ''Knights 3: United we stand'' (TBA): The three brothers must rally all the kingdoms of the region to unite against a mysterious foe.
** ''Pirates'', the quest of three pirates going after a prisoner, holder of an incredible secret, who escaped. [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that the prisoner's secret is that he has Midas' touch]].
*** ''Pirates 1'': The prisoner just escaped and the trio has to search the entire island to find him. In gameplay, it's identical to ''Knights 1''.
*** ''Pirates 2'' (TBA): The trio has reduced the research area to the main town of the island. But it's a huge, fortified town, where hiding places are legion. Is more akin to an investigation (you must find clues that will allow you to find the prisoner) and adds new stats (notably a KarmaMeter).
** ''Sherlock Holmes'' (expected), where the famous duo (the reader plays Watson) investigates a murder. As for gameplay, you can't just choose a path like that and hope for the best (well, you can, but it's not the best idea): good examination and investigation will help you to choose the best path.
** ''Project A'' (expected), a DarkerAndEdgier story set AfterTheEnd.
** ''For Lily'' (expected), another DarkerAndEdgier story about the kidnapping of a little girl.
** ''The Iron Mages'' (expected), a SteamPunk story in the Paris of the 1880's.
** ''Survive'' (expected), a ZombieApocalypse story.

* Makaka, a French editor, has started a franchise called ''The comic book in which you are the hero'', or also ''DiaryOfAHero'' which is a series of CYOA in comic book form. The books exploit heavily this nature by hiding items or instructions for better paths in the drawings, involving the player in a deeper way than a prose book. For now, we have:

* Makaka, a French editor, has started a franchise called ''The comic book in which YOU are the hero!'', which is a series of CYOA in comic book form. The books exploit heavily this nature by hiding items or instructions for better paths in the drawings, involving the player in a deeper way than a prose book. For now, we have:

*** ''Knights 1: Diary of a hero'': The three brothers join the academy of knights, and must succeed the ritual of admission.
*** ''Knights 2: The missive'': The three brothers, now knights-in-training, are charged of bringing an important missive to the king of the neighbor kingdom.

*** ''Pirates 1'': The prisoner just escaped and the trio has to search the entire island to find him.
*** ''Pirates 2'' (TBA): The trio has reduced the research area to the main town of the island. But it's a huge, fortified town, where hiding places are legion.
** ''Sherlock Holmes'' (expected), where the famous duo (the reader plays Watson) investigates a murder.

* Makaka, a French editor, has started a franchise called ''Diary of a hero'', which is a series of CYOA in comic book form. The books exploit heavily this nature by hiding items or instructions for better paths in the drawing, involving the player in a deeper way than a prose book. For now, we have:
** ''Knights'' (Two books, three expected), the story of three brothers who want to become knights.
** ''Pirates'' (One book, one expected), three pirates going after a mysterious prisoner.

** ''Project A'' (possibly abandoned), a DarkerAndEdgier story set AfterTheEnd.

* Chooseyourownstory.com is a website allowing all members to join and take part in writing their own storygame. (However, due to the versatility of the site's editor, 'CYOSs' (or 'CYOAs') are not the only option. Quizzes, games of chance, regular stories, and RPGs are also possible.)

* ''Chooseyourownstory.com'' is a website allowing all members to join and take part in writing their own storygame. (However, due to the versatility of the site's editor, CYOAs are not the only option. Quizzes, games of chance, regular stories, and RPGs are also possible.)

** ''Project A'', a DarkerAndEdgier story set AfterTheEnd.

** ''For Lily'' (expected), a DarkerAndEdgier story about the kidnapping of a little girl.

* Makaka, a French editor, has started a franchise called ''Diary of a hero'', which is a series of CYOA in comic book form. The books exploit heavily this nature by hiding items or instructions for better paths in the drawing, involving the player in a deeper way than a prose book.

* Makaka, a French editor, has started a franchise called ''The comic book of which you're the hero'', which is a series of CYOA in comic book form. The books exploit heavily this nature by hiding items or instructions for better paths in the drawing, involving the player in a deeper way than a prose book.

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* Mike Carey's comic book ''TheUnwritten'' features an issue told as a "Pick-A-Story" book, which tells the backstory of one of the characters. The choices are mostly used to create AlternativeCharacterInterpretation, but there's also a TemporalParadox ending where the protagonist ends up drugged up to her eyeballs in a mental institution.

* Parodied in the first volume of {{Empowered}} when Thugboy is given three choices how to respond to Emp's question.

* Such things also existed for other systems, such as early editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' or ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye''. The concept really only ''worked'' for fairly rules-light games with reasonably abstract combat and even then only for a restricted range of characters as anticipated by the writers (which generally meant "no magic-users" and might plausibly limit the player to a single class -- commercial solo adventures were most popular during the heyday of class-and-level systems, which helped).

* Mike Kayatta, of TheEscapist, created a ''Franchise/MassEffect'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/features/9514-Pick-Your-Path-Mass-Effect Pick Your Own Adventure]].

* Mike Kayatta, of TheEscapist, created a ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/features/9514-Pick-Your-Path-Mass-Effect Pick Your Own Adventure]].

* ''To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Adventure'' is a choose-your-own-adventure version of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' written by [[Webcomic/DinosaurComics Ryan North]].

** ''Liteature/BloodOfTheZombies'', a SpiritualSuccessor to ''House of Hell'' above, this is a loving homage/pastiche to Zombie Horror Films.

* ''Horror classics gamebooks'': Two books by J.H. Brennan, which despite being about {{Dracula}} and Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}, respectively, have a humorous tone similar to ''Grail Quest'' (fighting [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a vampiric Granny Smith apple]], anyone?).

* ''Virtual Reality'', a series of six books from the early nineties. Notable for having much more exotic plots than the average gamebook and for using a unique, non-random rule system. The four books by Dave Morris, the ''Panurgic Adventures'' series (of which the best known is ''HeartOfIce''), are some of the most interesting and intricate gamebooks written. ''Heart of Ice'' is a slightly different take on AfterTheEnd; inspired in part by Jack Vance's ''Dying Earth'', it's a quest set in a world where [[AIIsACrapshoot an insane AI]] has triggered global weather changes and turned the Sahara into a desert.

* ''LostInAusten: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure''.

* The ''Panurgic Adventures'' series, of which the best known is ''HeartOfIce'', by Dave Morris (of ''[[Literature/TheFabledLands Fabled Lands]]'' fame). ''Heart of Ice'' is a slightly different take on AfterTheEnd; inspired in part by Jack Vance's ''Dying Earth'', it's a quest set in a world where [[AIIsACrapshoot an insane AI]] has triggered global weather changes and turned the Sahara into a desert.

* ''To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Adventure'' is a choose-your-own-adventure version of ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'' written by [[Webcomic/DinosaurComics Ryan North]].
* ''Virtual Reality'', a series of six books from the early nineties. Notable for having much more exotic plots than the average gamebook and for using a unique, non-random rule system. The four books by Dave Morris, including ''Heart of Ice'', are some of the most interesting and intricate gamebooks written.
* ''Way of the Tiger'', written and illustrated by ''FF'' alumni Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, is an especially well-written series featuring a {{ninja}}. Unlike many similar books, this series spends pages describing its world while telling an exciting and atmospheric story with a lot of variety that involves the player not only fighting but also have to deal diplomacy, politics and command strategy.
* ''Which Way Books'' have a pair of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' books and a spinoff mini-series based on Creator/DCComics heroes.

* ''Literature/WizardsWarriorsAndYou''

* Issue 10 of the ''ComicBook/AdventureTime'' comic had Ice King miscasting a mind-control spell that ends up giving the reader control over Finn and Jake.

* Attack the GHOUL? (Turn to [[RocksFallEveryoneDies 203]])
* Use your Potion of Persuasion, if you have one? (Turn to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 288]])

* ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' has released an animated DVD game, ''The Abominable Snowman''.