Steam Highwayman featured through May on the 100 Endings Book Club

May is here and it is Steam Highwayman‘s turn to be featured on the 100 Endings Book Club, hosted by Duncan Thomson of Rand Roll.

For the duration of the month, I’m offering a special bundle of the first three books with maps for £45 + shipping and there’s already been a new crop of adventurers ordering their copies so that they can explore the woods and lanes of the midnight road…

As the month progresses, I’ll be lurking on forums, answering questions, offering hints, behind-the-scenes explanations and maybe some pictures of planning maps and things – if you like to know how these gamebooks get created. I plan to be running at least two AMA (ask-me-anything) sessions too – I’ll signpost these.

The main discussion will take place on Discord, with some more on Reddit, and you’re very welcome to see what new explorers make of your old favourites. Mayhaps this’ll prompt some of you faithful backers to pick the books up once more and explore corners never previously reached!

After all…

YOU are the Steam Highwayman!

Steam Highwayman – Embedding Graphics and New Factions

sepiashmapshrunkenIt’s been a good day astride the velosteam.  I’ve created a 2-part mini quest that introduces you to one of my Factions, the Compact for Workers’ Equality.  You’ll want to watch out for their posters in urban locations and their supporters in pubs everywhere…

And on the technical side, I’ve been using help on the twine forum to embed a map for the first time.  This was one of the first things that I was asked for, so I’ve managed to get the first version embedded as Base64 encoding, whatever that is.  It now sits in your inventory just above your pocket watch…

I’ve moved my demo from a separate demo-map into the top left corner of this ‘real’ bit of my old neck of the woods.  The demo extends up towards Stokenchurch and beyond Christmas Common, which is the entrance point for your story.