Lockdown Ludonaut

ECTOCOMP 2025 A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by rubereaglenest & alyshkalia. There's a full moon rising Let's go dancing in the light We know where the music's playing Let’s go out and feel the nig...

The 2025 edition of ECTOCOMP, the interactive fiction community's annual spooky competition, is here! Submissions open on October 1, but you can begin working on your spooky IF now.

Rules and more info on the jam page: itch.io/jam/ectocomp...

YouTube video by Lockdown Ludonaut Deep Dive into The Fall Affair, a haunted casino heist!

🤽‍♂️🤿And here's our deep dive into this haunted casino heist set in beautiful #Ontario, #Canada

#Gamebook #InteractiveFiction #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #Heist #Horror #Halloween #SpookySeason #Canada #Ontario #GameDesign

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The Fall Affair: a Break system gamebook The Fall Affair: a Break system gamebook: Schraner, Derek: 9798298691741: Books - Amazon.ca

🎲Get your copy now: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FP5D3YK4

YouTube video by Lockdown Ludonaut How to Play The Fall Affair

🎃🧛‍♀️🦇Here's a tutorial for The Fall Affair, the haunted casino heist #gamebook! In this video, you learn how to play this immersive, decision-driven gamebook, where your choices take you to a long-abandoned casino in #Ontario.

🎲Get your copy now: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FP5D3YK4

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YouTube video by Lockdown Ludonaut Reveal of The Fall Affair, a haunted casino heist!

🦇🧛‍♀️🍂We just made SO MANY videos about our new book!!!

🎃This one is just IN TIME for Halloween, all about a haunted casino heist.

The Fall Affair is a standalone trip in the Break system series. A six-sided die is recommended, but not required for your journey.

#CYOA

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hello new followers! i'm anna, a game writer / narrative designer and a game design educator, all of which are fields that are extremely hard to find work in right now! if you'll allow me a brief thread, i will list some of the shenanigans i am currently engaged in to try and make ends meet

if you missed it i posted my lesson plan and materials from when i ran AD&D: Tomb of Horrors in my history of rpgs class for my students! yesterday i posted Diplomacy – tomorrow will be a seminal indie rpg from 2010!

Operation CanCon 1990s. Celebrate the brillians of Canadian music and save Canada!

📀📀Love it. I remember when that song was released. It was breathtaking in all the best ways.

In fact we love her so much we wrote an #interactivefiction book and game about shopping for music in the 1990s, and Alanis is featured PROMINENTLY.

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Enter our contest for a chance to with a free copy.

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YouTube video by Lockdown Ludonaut Reveal of The Fall Affair, a haunted casino heist!

🎃🧛‍♀️🦇🎰How about a haunted casino, a shadowy underworld crime network, and a ...heist?

🍂If your answer is, "Yes, please!" Check out The Fall Affair!

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We even made a CYOA, #interactivefiction trilogy about shopping for #Canadian physical media...

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A Foreign Syndicate. A Heist In Kyoto. All In A Single Interactive Gamebook. The Summer Job.

We've been churning out #interactivefiction books over the past year because like your oldest, we are obsessed with #CYOA books too.

There's some free samples on our site!

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Dive into the interactive world of Operation CanCon, where your mission is to collect Canadian music. Navigate Eighties music stores in search of iconic songs. The hope of a country's future will depend on preserving its cultural artifacts.

#InteractiveFiction #Gamebook

YouTube video by Lockdown Ludonaut Operation CanCon: How to Play

🍁🍎🏫Back-To-School Giveaway Time! We are giving away 10 signed copies of the Operation CanCon 80s gamebook, the 1980s music shopping simulator, to folks who leave a comment about their favourite music shopping experience under this video here.

Shipping to #Canada only.

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The One Minute Music Book Club: How Does It Sound Now? Legendary Engineers and Vintage Gear This is a deep-in-the-weeds book for many, but if you’re into recording studios and the process of capturing audio for all time, How Does It Sound Now? Legendary Engineers and Vintage Gear by

ICYMI: The One Minute Music Book Club: How Does It Sound Now? Legendary Engineers and Vintage Gear #musicnews

The Summer Job: a Break system gamebook The Summer Job: a Break system gamebook : Schraner, Derek: Amazon.ca: Books

Get it on #Amazon today for only $20.

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A Foreign Syndicate. A Heist In Kyoto. All In A Single Interactive Gamebook. The Summer Job.

🌸Our in-house game designer #DerekSchraner has been busy. This is his FIFTH book this year, another intricate, wholly original take on interactive fiction, this time a heist in #Kyoto #Japan

You solve the puzzle of how to do the job without getting caught ...or worse

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Derek Schraner: books, biography, latest update Follow Derek Schraner and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Derek Schraner Author Page.

You can snag a copy of Operation CanCon on our store here for only $18.67 (CDN)

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A piece of parchment with the words, We Know and a black handprint.

This is ...outstanding.

Hey #Canada, are you feeling a little ...angry about the way a certain 🍊politician talks about us and our beautiful country?

Us too.

#Canada has the best people and #music in the world. We wrote a trilogy of #gamebooks designed to celebrate the glory that is #Canadian 80s, 90s and classic music.

So bored! Podcast Episode · Not by the Playbook · 07/18/2025 · 1h 15m

I'm in BBCs "Not by the Playbook" podcast about sports...and this episode, on "boards" --surfing, D&D, and board games! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

#gamedesign #boardgames #socialimpact @elizaskinner.bsky.social

YouTube video by Dr. Tanya Pobuda The New Adventures of Gilligan's Island Board Game

One of our team members posts her thrift store retro games on #YouTube.

She's officially jealous of your #Columbo.

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OMG, want, want, want. What a glorious thing to own. 😍

Social graphic composed of screenshots showing the latest episode of The DM’s Book Club being out on podcast platforms.

The next episode of our DM’s Book Club series is out!

Episode #10: What A Con! UKGE 2025 (and anecdotes from a Renaissance Fair) 🎲 🎙️ 🎧

🎧 linktr.ee/dmbc

#RPG #ttrpg #dmbc #ukge #renfaire

Love, love, love this game. I haven't hit that [amazing] score yet but I adore Gentle Rain.

Between a thumb and finger held up to a blue sky is an orange coloured face carved in amber from the Roman period.

Investigations into the family of Cunobelin, who played our game of Aquila 2000 years ago, drew us to Mersea Island and a new mystery involving some Romans buried there. Spinning off from this was an interesting find from Roman times: what this is we do not know. Photo by Callum Allsop / ADAS.

Derek Schraner: books, biography, latest update Follow Derek Schraner and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Derek Schraner Author Page.

💥🍁💪💪You can purchase #OperationCanCon on #Amazon for only...

📜$18.67

(Get it????)

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New Gamebooks and Having a Chat I Salt and Sass Games #solo #new #justchatting - saltandsassgames on Twitch saltandsassgames went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Just Chatting VOD now.

📺 🎧 Woot! #OperationCanCon is featured on the amazing Salt and Sass #Twitch stream.

🍁 We are HONOURED, Mandi, the leading voice in Canada about all things #boardgames and #gamebooks, is the BEST.

Buy this celebration of #Canada on #Amazon

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YouTube video by Lockdown Ludonaut Q+A: What artists/songs are in Operation CanCon: Eighties? 56 top Canadian music hits of the 1980s!

🚨 🎸 Remember the 1990s? Now you can relive the 1990s with a new #Canadian #gamebook, shop in iconic #Ottawa and #Toronto music stores.

🎶 Which songs are featured in #OperationCanCon 90s?

💪💪🍁Find out! And #ElbowsUp, #Canada

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