History Main / ChooseYourOwnAdventure

For those interested in creating their own choose your own adventure stories, several programs on the net allow for an easy access and coherent flowchart tool. A notable example is [[http://twinery.org/ Twine]], a completely freeware porgram that can be either downloaded or used through a browser.

* ''Literature/TwistAPlot'' is a series of pick-a-path adventure books published by Scholastic in competition to ''Choose Your Own Adventure'', published by Bantam. Contributors to the series included R.L. Stine, who would go on to write the wildly successful ''Goosebumps!'' series.[[note]] The ones he wrote (and nobody else's) were actually reissued to cash in on his popularity after ''Goosebumps!'' took off. [[/note]]

** One of the paths even leads to a story that was covered in an earlier issue, and if picking his path, the reader is told to go read that issue.

* The ''ComicBook/Futurama'' comic invoked and parodied this trope in issue #46, ''Follow The Reader,'' where the reader is every so often given choices on whether to skip forward or backward in the comic -- but the reader's choices don't actually affect the story in any way, they just decide how much of it you actually read (and sometimes alter the context of a scene a little by making different set-ups or payoffs for jokes).

* ''Literature/TwistAPlot'' is a series of pick-a-path adventure books published by Scholastic in competition to ''Choose Your Own Adventure'', published by Bantam. Contributors to the series included R.L. Stine, who would go on to write the wildly successful ''Goosebumps!'' series.[[note]] The ones he wrote (and nobody else's) were actually reissued to cash in on his popularity after ''Goosebumps!'' took off. [[note/]]

* ''Literature/TwistAPlot'' is a series of pick-a-path adventure books published by Scholastic in competition to ''Choose Your Own Adventure'', published by Bantam. Contributors to the series included R.L. Stine, who would go on to write the wildly successful ''Goosebumps!'' series.

* There was once a ''two-player'' example called ''1 On 1'', where the players were opposing factions and would role-play the monsters the other fought as well; naturally, there was a combat system and stats so the players could interact. The ''Combat Heroes'' series by Joe Dever (of ''Literature/LoneWolf'' fame) is another example of this concept. Also, the ''Lost Worlds'' gamebooks; each character in the system had his/her own book, and any two players could battle by exchanging books. The series was franchised to Creator/MarvelComics and ''Franchise/StarWars''; right now, arguably the most famous version is the ''Anime/QueensBlade'' series, which is basically ''Lost Worlds'' [- WITH HOT [[ActionGirl ACTION GIRLS]] IN [[{{Stripperiffic}} TINY OUTFITS]]!-]

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* LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} celebrated Valentines day in 2017 by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyU_1JD2wuA going on a date]] with his viewers using a Choose Your Own adventure game, made out of [=YouTube=] videos.
* [[Creator/StuartAshen Dr. Ashen]] made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWYY4BCAyzQ Who Stole My Sofa?]] in a similar way to ''A Date With Markiplier'', using annotations to allow his viewers to guide him on a journey to find out [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who stole his sofa]]. Featuring [[SpecialGuest special]] [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover appearances]] from other [=YouTube=] personalities, including WebVideo/KickthePJ, Music/DanBull, [[https://www.youtube.com/user/EuphoricCreation Emma Pickles,]] WebVideo/DanAndPhilGAMES, and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldOfTheOrange WorldOfTheOrange]], a few cameos from "characters" seen in Ashen's other videos, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking sponsored by]] [[ProductPlacement Dr. Pepper]], this particular take on gamebooks [[HilarityEnsues gets rather entertaining.]]
* WebVideo/ChadMattAndRob have posted five interactive films on [=YouTube=], using [=YouTube=] annotations to create branching paths for the viewer to choose.

* As seen with "Haircut" above, link annotations in Website/YouTube videos can be used to make [=CYOA=] videos like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3zJcMlqWZA A Heavy's 2fort Adventure]]''. And there's the even longer ''[[http://youtu.be/KS3ANTUOevY A Granary Adventure: The Underdog Story]],'' which was written by xlr105.

'''Lois:''' (''sighs'') Yeah, Peter, I seen it.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' had an episode that let the audience call in their choice as to how the episode ended. The two choices that didn't win were shown before the one that was. Since then, only the chosen ending has been shown in syndication.

* ''Literature/PresterJohnSaga'' (''La Saga du pretre Jean''): a French series of books telling the story of Prester John and his quest for the city of Shangri-La across the Orient.

* A couple ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' CYOA books were written.
* A couple of storybooks based on the little known toyline Robo Force have a few points in each story the reader has to "Help the Robo Force!". In each case, there is only one right answer.

* ''Literature/RomeoAndOrJuliet'' is a choose-your-own-adventure version of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' by Creator/RyanNorth, and a sequel of sorts to ''Literature/ToBeOrNotToBeThatIsTheAdventure''.

* ''Sagas of the Demonspawn'': Also by J.H. Brennan, a more serious ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian''-esque SwordAndSorcery story.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' had a series at the height of his phenomenal popularity in the UK, written by the authors of the novel series but not belonging to that continuity. One was an AdaptationExpansion of the second [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Mega Drive]] game, in which Robotnik has built Metal Sonic to rampage around and destroy the real Sonic's reputation (any similarity to the plot of the nineteenth ''Literature/LoneWolf'' book ''Wolf's Bane'', published the previous year, is entirely coincidental -- the book, and sometimes Metal Sonic himself, still have the nickname "Hedgehog's Bane" in some circles) and Sonic has to hunt him down through the game's levels.

* ''Literature/{{Sorcery}}'' brought ''Fighting Fantasy'' to an older audience; its books feature very dark artwork influenced by Goya. The series is being [[http://www.inklestudios.com/sorcery/ adapted into a computerized version]].
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* ''Stake Your Destiny'': Gamebooks based on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', each set in different spots in the series. They basically put you in Buffy's role, [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne lucky you.]] It doesn't specifically say where, the first is presumably during Season 1 and two more in Season 2.
* ''Literature/StarChallenge'', a series of ten books taking place in a Sci-Fi setting whose unique gimmick was a score system depending of how successful was your mission... if you survived.
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* ''Literature/GravityFallsDipperAndMabelAndTheCurseOfTheTimePiratesTreasure''; a ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' book where Dipper and Mabel help Blendin Blandin find a lost treasure. Written with help from Alex Hirsch, the show's creator.

* ''Horror Classic gamebooks'': Two books by J.H. Brennan, which despite being about {{Dracula}} and Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}, respectively, have a humorous tone similar to ''[=GrailQuest=]'' (fighting [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a vampiric Granny Smith apple]], anyone?). They were also notable for providing two adventures in one, both taking place in the same location but using a different character; in ''Dracula's Castle'' you could play as either the Count himself or Jonathan Harker, and in ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' you were either the monster or its creator.

* Sci-fi webcomic ''Webcomic/GiftsOfWanderingIce'' has its own choose your adventure game [[http://mildegard.ru/art/DL_icegifthunt.html "Ice gift hunt"]] that lets the readers dicide the course of some background events of the main story.

** ''Literature/CurseOfTheMummy'' by Jonathan Green, 59th installment of the series.
** ''Literature/{{Bloodbones}}'' by Jonathan Green, 60th installment of the series.
** ''Literature/HowlOfTheWerewolf'' by Jonathan Green, 61st installment of the series.
** ''Literature/EyeOfTheDragon'' by Ian Livingstone, 62nd installment of the series.

** ''Literature/{{Bloodbones}}'' by Jonathan Green, 61st installment of the series.
** ''Literature/HowlOfTheWerewolf'' by Jonathan Green, 62nd installment of the series.

** ''Literature/ScorpionSwamp'' by Steve Jackson, 8th installment of the series. Features unusual, multiple alignment-based paths and endings.

** ''Literature/AppointmentWithFEAR'' stands out by using a comics-superhero setting instead of the usual HeroicFantasy.
** ''Literature/HouseOfHell'', similarly, departs by its inspiration being [[HorrorFilms horror movies]].
** ''Literature/DemonsOfTheDeep'' by Steve Jackson, set in an unusual underwater setting.

** ''Literature/CreatureOfHavoc'', where the reader plays this time as a mindless killing monster, in a notable subversion of usual fantasy gamebooks.