To celebrate the arrival of Blitz3D on my PC, I am proud to re-issue 'Advanced Book Writing Simulator'.
This is a little game I originally wrote in Blitz Basic on the Amiga.

• http://www.marasmusine.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/booksim.exe

The thing obviously needs expanding on quite a bit.
To go in a possible next release:

• Chance of books becoming a cult clasic.
• Rivals stealing your ideas and visa versa.
• More drugs; caffine, alchohol, etc.
• Stress factor.
• More genre types, and being able to pick a secondary genre.
• etc etc.

You may prefer some of my more recent projects at gamedesign.

Woohoo! Yay! Wahey! I love booksim! Glad to know you got Blitz3D okay. Is this taken from the original source code somehow?
Or is it completely remade? -Derek

Original source code with only slight modifications required.

I thought it was exactly the same. So you 'ported' it did you? Where had you got the source code? -Derek
I transferred it over the first PC I owned, when I still had Gally.
Which means the code has been transferred through 3 PC's over 7 years before I've been bothered to do anything with it.
It's a shame I didn't save any other code.

Great stuff. It's an obviously silly mistake to go near the drugs early in the game at the moment, though.
If it were possible to apply for another job once you get yourself sacked, that would be nice. Practical?
-iainl

Ahoy! Your friend Nirejhenge sent us here. Excellent little game. My only complaint is that when you're offered a job you're not told the salary. Could be useful to know, cheers. - SA (that's Sinister Agent, as in AP's Sinister Agents. - Derek(that's Derek, as in... oh. Damn. - SA))

I'm pretty much addicted. It would be nice to have a kind of history screen where it shows everything you've written, how much it was sold for, how much you made on royalties etc. Also it would be nice if you could produce short story anthologies and get old books back into print if newer ones sell well. - tom

I'd say that would be more a random thing that would happen if you managed to produce lots of short stories. It wouldn't be something you'd control. You just write the books. -Derek

Thanks for your input, everyone. I'll take all your suggestions and try to put them in -Duncan.