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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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-|title= 1337: A Game Novel about Gaming
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-'''''1337: A Game Novel About Gaming''''' is an interactive serial novel computer game released in 2010 by <a href="http://real1stgames.com">, makers of the hit <b>haXX0r</b> alternate reality online game. The game combines elements of both a empire simulator, first-person shooter, and role-playing game. It is notable for integrating Jungian archetypes into the RPG programming and for making use of web 2.0, user-generated NPCs. The principle author for both the coding and the story is currently unknown.
-The player joins a clan in the year 1337 A.D. as either a footsoldier to King Edward III of England or King Philip VI of France. Early gameplay involves traditional MMORPG gathering, exploring, and leveling-up tasks, which culminates in a [[ganking]] battle with the level's main boss.
+{{game infobox|title=1337: A Game Novel|image=[[Image:1337-screenshot.jpg|right|Screenshot illustrating ''1337'''s gameplay.]]|author=[http://markfullmer.com Mark Fullmer]|publisher=Real1st Games|released=2010|authsystem=[[HTML/PHP/SQL/FBML]]|platform=[[Facebook]] App|language=English|license=[[Freeware]]|color=B&W|graphics=Noir Comic|sound=mp3|cruelty=Merciful}}
+[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.
-==Reception==
+==How It Begins==
-The game was reviewed by [[Gameology Magazine]] in late 2009 by David Breskin, a name which was later discovered to be fictitious. Gameology Magazine has not been available for comment on this matter. The supposed reviewer gave the game 3 1/2 out of 5 stars, concluding "1337 is scary real."
+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.
-"Vaster than empires and more real. Frigteningly so."</b> -- Dara Colbert, Spectre
+==Notable Features==
-<br />
+* Names of characters and other details are dynamically generated from readers' Facebook profiles.
-<b>"One insane behemoth of a pesonality test."</b> --<i>McFarley's Weekly</i><br />
+* 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.
-<b>"Tune in, turn on, drop out."</b> -- Timothy Leary
+* 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.
-==References==
+==Versions==
-{{reflist}}
+===Facebook release===
-{{rpg-videogame-stub}}
+* [http://apps.facebook.com/leetnovel 1337: A Game Novel About Gaming]
+==Links==
+===General info===
+* [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]
+[[Category:Works]]
+[[Category:Works in 2010]]