With An Assassin in Orlandes now available to buy on the App Store we thought we would introduce Pirkka Harvala, the illustrator behind a lot of the beautiful images that accompany the story. We posed some questions to Pirkka about his experience on the project and where his artistic passions lie.

Read it here!

Okay, we have a bunch of App Store promo codes to giveaway for  Gamebook Adventures 1: An Assassin in Orlandes! To be in with a chance you need to be a Twitter user and need to follow the instructions below:

1) To enter you firstly need to be a Twitter follower of @TinManGames

2) You must tweet the following: To win a promo code for An Assassin in Orlandes by @TinManGames click http://bit.ly/aOAb8O

Winners will be chosen at random at midnight Friday 20th U.S. Pacific Time. Only one promo code can be won per Twitter name. To be in with a chance of winning you must follow the instructions. Incorrect tweets will not be allowed. NOTE: Promo codes can only redeemed with a U.S. iTunes account.

(We have changed the rules as people were finding them too complicated and tweeting the wrong messages! The new rules have made it simpler so tweet away!)

We have some updates for An Assassin in Orlandes which fix a few issues that we know people have been having:

1.1 update (released 13/02)

- A few book links fixed that were causing problems
- Bug fixed that prevented some readers from finishing the adventure
- “Skip intro” added to options menu
- Can now play your own music (to do this check “skip intro” in options)
- Map bug fixed

1.2 update (released 17/02)

- Couple of logic links fixed
- Inventory black screen bug fixed for OS 2.2.1
- Small image achievements bug fixed

Finally the deadly Assassin has been revealed! We’re really excited to see our first Gamebook Adventures title hit the App Store today! It’s been in absolute pleasure getting this gamebook finished and big kudos goes to S.P. Osborne for his exciting and compelling story, as well as Pirkka Harvala for his beautiful illustrations. Not forgetting too, Dan Maxwell for his memorable cover art!

To find out more about An Assassin in Orlandes click here! It costs $4.99 (US), £2.99 (UK), 3,99 € (Europe) and $5.99 (Australia).

To download from iTunes follow this link:

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/gamebook-adventures-1-an-assassin/id352871101?mt=8

With An Assassin in Orlandes just days away from release we wanted to give readers an insight into the author of the gamebook! So we posed some questions to S.P. Osborne about his background in gamebooks, where the idea of Assassin came from and how he sees the genre in the future.

Read it here!

We’re chuffed to bits to have been recently mentioned in the latest issue of Fighting Fantazine! It’s a fanzine generally aimed at the Fighting Fantasy series of gamebooks, so being included especially as we’re non FF gamebooks is great privilege!

If you’re into fantasy gamebooks then I would definately recommend downloading this especially as it is created by fans for fans so contains lots of juicy articles and even free mini adventures. To find out more check it out here!

After many months of hard toil we’ve finally submitted Book 1 in our Gamebook Adventures series, An Assassin in Orlandes. Assuming submission goes through smoothly it will be available to buy next week from the App Store! We’re really excited in unleashing the assassin but there is no rest for the wicked and we are now busy working on GA Book 2: The Siege of the Necromancer!

To celebrate Australia Day we’ve made both Frootrees and Frootrees Halloween FREE for the day!

Have a great day all and don’t eat too many snags!

We’ve just had our first preview of An Assassin in Orlandes on the brilliant Games On Net site! Click on over there to find excerpts of an interview conducted by Mitch Vleeskens with Neil Rennison, our gamebook producer, writer and editor.

Games On Net An Assassin in Orlandes preview

As an update, we’re just coming to the end of beta testing and hope to submit to Apple next week! We’ll let you know more when we do!