I am very slowly working on creating SVG flowcharts of as many gamebooks as I can. I recommend Inkscape, a free graphics package, for viewing these files. (SVG files are also natively viewed by Mozilla Firefox 3.x, but not by Internet Explorer.) If you would like to contribute your own SVG flowcharts of gamebooks to this project, I will happily host the file and credit you as the originator.
These flowcharts were produced using Graphviz. I am grateful to Amarande and Ben Nelson on the Gamebooks Mailing List for taking the time to explain exactly how to create these, and also to Per Jorner whose reports on broken links I incorporated into my flowcharts.
For flowcharts of the new content in the Mongoose Publishing editions of the Lone Wolf series, click here.
Latest! A rough flowchart of my own gamebook, The Strange Case of the Bodies in the Docks, has been produced using an automatically-generated DOT file, courtesy of Jason at Fighting Fantasy.Org. See it here. And Stop Press! Here's a flowchart of my other gamebook, The Curse of the Yeti, also produced using an automatically-generated DOT file, though slightly tweaked. See it here.
Choose your Own Adventure #001: The Cave of Time
Choose Your Own Adventure #017: The Race Forever
Key For Choose Your Own Adventure Books:
Green Fill: Good Ending
Yellow Fill: OK Ending
Red Fill: Bad Ending
"Eye of the Dragon"
mini-adventure from Dicing with Dragons
"Rogue Mage"
mini-adventure from The Fighting Fantasy 10th Anniversary Yearbook
Sorcery #1: The Shamutanti Hills
Sorcery #2: Kharé - Cityport of Traps
Sorcery #3: The Seven Serpents
Sorcery #4: The Crown of Kings
Clash of the Princes #1: The Warlock's Way
Clash of the Princes #2: The Warrior's Way
Goldhawk #1: Darkmoon's Curse
Goldhawk #2: The Demon Spider
Goldhawk #3: Mudworm Swamp
Goldhawk #4: Ghost Road
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Sagas of the Demonspawn #1: Fire*Wolf
Sagas of the Demonspawn #2: The Crypts of Terror
Sagas of the Demonspawn #3: Demondoom
Sagas of the Demonspawn #4: Ancient Evil
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Way of the Tiger #1: Avenger!
Way of the Tiger #2: Assassin!
Way of the Tiger #3: Usurper!
Way of the Tiger #4: Overlord!
Way of the Tiger #5: Warbringer!
Way of the Tiger #6: Inferno!
Many of the following errors have been found/fixed due to these flowcharts, with help also provided by Per Jorner, whose website featuring many reviews of the Fighting Fantasy series, can be found here. Per especially helped with the flowchart for #49: Siege of Sardath.
#1: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
- Section 192 is unreachable and superfluous.
#2: The Citadel of Chaos
- Section 3 should also contain a link to 258 if you want to use a Spell.
#6: Deathtrap Dungeon
- Sections 16, 132, 249, 287, and 392 pointlessly link to themselves.
#9: Caverns of the Snow Witch
- Section 154 should link to 333 rather than 185.
#15: The Rings of Kether
- Section 346 should link to 268 rather than 263.
#30: Chasms of Malice
- Section 331 should link to 253 rather than 99.
#42: Black Vein Prophecy
- Section 49 should link to 375 rather than 197.
- Section 160 should link to 395 rather than 394.
- Section 187 should tell you to write down 187 rather than 152.
- Section 190 should link to 19 rather than 29.
- Section 325 should tell you to write down 325 rather than 152.
#45: Spectral Stalkers
- Section 285 should link to 206 rather than 153.
- Section 317 should link to 206 rather than 153.
#49: Siege of Sardath
- Section 171 is unreachable and superfluous.
#50: Return to Firetop Mountain
- Section 79 should link to 209 rather than 352.
#51: Island of the Undead
- Section 79 should link to 146 rather than 46.
#53: Spellbreaker
- Section 83 should link to 300 rather than 132.
#54: Legend of Zagor
- Section 120 should link to 223 rather than 233.
#58: Revenge of the Vampire
- Section 5 should link to 166 rather than 98.
#62: Howl of the Werewolf
- Section 373 should link to 500 rather than 350.
Sorcery 1: The Shamutanti Hills
- Section 319 is unreachable and superfluous.
Sorcery 4: The Crown of Kings
- Sections 300 and 406 are unreachable and superfluous.
The Fighting Fantasy 10th Anniversary Yearbook
- Section 42 is linked from 13 sections, and yet gives the option to 'return to 103'.
Sagas of the Demonspawn #1: Fire*Wolf
- Section 122 should link to 124 (link missing).
- Section 170 should link to 180 (link missing).
Sagas of the Demonspawn #2: The Crypts of Terror
- Section 16 should link to 34 rather than 35.
- Section 17 should link to 28 rather than 17.
- Section 71 should link to 25 (link missing).
- Section 77 should link to 23 and 32 and 38 (links missing).
- Section 85 should link to 23 and 32 and 38 (links missing).
- The CRYPT spell refers to Section 150, which relates to the previous book in the series.
Sagas of the Demonspawn #3: Demondoom
- Section 169 should link to 170 rather than 172.
- Section 165 is incorrectly labelled as 163.
Sagas of the Demonspawn #4: Ancient Evil
- Section 59 should link to 71 rather than 9.
Way of the Tiger #1: Avenger!
- Section 244 should link to 236 not 326.
- Section 356 is missing! (This does not adversely affect the game as nothing links to it.)
Way of the Tiger 5: Warbringer!
- Sections 219 and 321 are unreachable and superfluous.
