Wizard's Choice Volume 1 (A Text-Based Adventure for Kindle)

by Sam Landstrom

Product Description

Fortune and glory or death? Your decisions make the difference in Wizard's Choice, a text-based adventure for Kindle.

Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. Wizard's Choice is an adventure that will engross you in a storyline while allowing you to make the decisions that will determine your fate. Decisions you make early in the game will affect what happens to you and the choices you get to make later in the game.

Wizards Choice will track your health, manna, gold, and morale, so you should take care to manage each well. Your score and rank will be shown at the end, and you can replay as many times as you like to try and improve your rank and score.

So what will it be? Glory? Fortune? Death? (two out of three, perhaps?) Try making the Wizard's Choice today!

Product Details

• Version: 1.1
• Release Date: February 15, 2012
• File Size: 609 kB
• Language: English
• Publisher: Sam Landstrom
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• ASIN: B006JCDR6W
• Publisher License: Read
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,138 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #24 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Role Playing & Fantasy

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun start. December 28, 2011

By para

This is a enjoyable tale that calls back to classic text based games and choose your own adventure novels. The addition of statistics to track makes it more involved than a simple branching book, but it's simpler than its peers that add game mechanics like die rolls (such as the Fighting Fantasy Adventures). Some clever small touches and details give a nice sense of atmosphere and keeps the main character from being completely a cipher.

A little short but more than worth the current price ($0.99).

The end leads directly to the second volume. Looking forward to seeing where the story goes from here.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this little book/app! December 10, 2011

By Ellie

Amazon Verified Purchase

OK, this is not a normal book, it's actually a Kindle game in book form. It's pretty similar to Choose Your Own Adventure books but there are some key improvements.

First, it's aimed at an older crowd. I imagine most younger folks would enjoy it, but there's some kinda graphic violence so I'm not sure it's something to read to your four-year old before bed. The writing and storyline is accessible and fun, but sophisticated enough to keep older readers interested too. There's even a little humor sprinkled around.

Second, there's a points system that tracks vitals like health, spell power (manna), gold, and morale. Health is the most important because if you run out of that, you're dead. I like the scoring because it gives you something to work for and it allows you to make bad decisions here and there without instantly dying.

Third, it's part of a series (three so far), so it's shaping up to be an epic story. There's an exciting cliffhanger at the end of this one and I can't wait to read the next! Also, you get one of six ranks at the end depending on how well you did. It's fun to play through a few times to try and get a higher rank.

My only issue is that it's a little short, but for 99 cents, I'm holding at five stars. I can safely say this is worth a LOT more than a McDonald's cheeseburger... And I really like those cheeseburgers!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty fun. December 11, 2011

By Man_420

Amazon Verified Purchase

Fun for 99 cents. A short few hour read to finish with a few endings and it leads into the second book that's 99 cents. there is also a third for 99 cents at least when I purchased them. Its the right price for them IMO.