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Choice-based

Virtual reality

School

Mystery

Adventure

1337: A Game Novel

Author(s)	Mark Fullmer
Publisher(s)	Real1st Games
Release date(s)	2010
Authoring system	HTML/PHP/SQL/FBML
Platform(s)	Facebook App
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects	B&W
Graphics	Noir Comic
Sound/Music	mp3
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Merciful

1337: A Game Novel is an interactive serial novel by Mark Fullmer. It uses Facebook App functionality to integrate a player's personal information into the storyline and employs RSS feeds to dynamically incorporate current events.

How It Begins

An elite group of ubernerd gamers are beta-testing an MMORPG called 1337. As the gamers ascend levels, they begin to realize that the game is much more than just a videogame and they are faced with the challenge of winning their lives back.

Notable Features

Names of characters and other details are dynamically generated from readers' Facebook profiles.
Story navigation mimics a choose your own adventure. Each of the novel's 300 pages prompts readers to select an option or supply their own. Choices shape minor descriptions and plot elements.
Players' statistics are based on Jungian archetypes and traditional RPG character attributes (such as intro/extravert and lawful/chaotic).
The game extends beyond the program in the manner of an alternate reality game. This includes faux internet sites, scholarship on videogaming, news articles, and other online games.

Versions

Facebook release

1337: A Game Novel About Gaming

Links

General info

Game Trailer
Game Company website
Winkipedia page
1337 - at IFDB
1337 - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).

Reviews

The Right Shadow Spoke by Nick Courage

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+[http://apps.facebook.com/leetnovel 1337: A Game Novel] is an interactive serial novel by [http://markfullmer.com Mark Fullmer]. It uses [http://developers.facebook.com Facebook App] functionality to integrate a player's personal information into the storyline and employs RSS feeds to dynamically incorporate current events.
-==Gameplay==
+==How It Begins==
-[[Image:1337-screenshot.jpg|left]]Story navigation is similar to a [[choose your own adventure]]. Each of the novel's 300 pages prompts readers to select an option or supply their own. Choices shape either minor descriptions or major plot elements.
+An elite group of ubernerd gamers are beta-testing an MMORPG called ''1337''. As the gamers ascend levels, they begin to realize that the game is much more than just a videogame and they are faced with the challenge of winning their lives back.
-==Plot==
+==Notable Features==
-An elite group of ubernerd gamers (composed of the reader's Facebook friends) are beta-testing an MMORPG called ''1337''. As the game unfolds, it begins to redefine traditional game elements of risk, agency, collaboration, and reward.
+* Names of characters and other details are dynamically generated from readers' Facebook profiles.
+* Story navigation mimics a [[choose your own adventure]]. Each of the novel's 300 pages prompts readers to select an option or supply their own. Choices shape minor descriptions and plot elements.
+* Players' statistics are based on Jungian archetypes and traditional [[RPG]] character attributes (such as intro/extravert and lawful/chaotic).
+* The game extends beyond the program in the manner of an alternate reality game. This includes faux internet sites, scholarship on videogaming, news articles, and other online games.
+==Versions==
+===Facebook release===
+* [http://apps.facebook.com/leetnovel 1337: A Game Novel About Gaming]
 ==Links==
-===Releases===
+===General info===
-* [http://apps.facebook.com/leetnovel 1337: A Game Novel About Gaming]
+* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF8scNKsx9g Game Trailer]
+* [http://real1stgames.com/ Game Company website]
+* [http://real1stgames.com/1337.htm Winkipedia page]
+* {{ifdb game|1337|zywjsol2de8yu3b}}
+* {{ifwizz|1337|1337-(2010-en)}}.
 ===Reviews===
-*[http://amutualrespect.org/words/2010/01/28/the-right-shadow-spoke-a-facebook-app-novel-shout-out The Right Shadow Spoke] by [http://markfullmer.com/Nick_Courage.htm Nick Courage]
+* [http://amutualrespect.org/words/2010/01/28/the-right-shadow-spoke-a-facebook-app-novel-shout-out The Right Shadow Spoke] by [http://markfullmer.com/Nick_Courage.htm Nick Courage]
-* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF8scNKsx9g youtube.com Game Trailer]
-* [http://real1stgames.com/1337.htm Winkipedia page]
-* [http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=zywjsol2de8yu3b IFDB page]
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+[[Category:Works]]
-[[Category:Mystery]]
+[[Category:Works in 2010]]
-[[Category:Games in 2010]]
-[[Category:Adventure]]
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