GameZebo: Even though technology is evolving at a pace that might impress a super-virus, humanity’s fondness for settling down with a good story hasn’t dissipated. What has changed is the way we consume those stories: While many of us are content to feel rough pages turn under our fingers, the popularity of eBooks and digital readers has blossomed over the past five years.
39 Steps is one of those games that has a thin line between game and interactive book. The way we read is changing from physical books to digital books passed and now for something more interactive in that classic novels come alive with moving images, brief animated segments, cutscenes, and even some puzzles. 39 Steps actually try to be innovative in the way it takes a classic book and tries to bring a new dimension. Available for PC, Mac and Linux, is a book by John Buchan mystery / thriller released in 1915. The history and text are intact and so if they have not read the book will be able to know the story in all its glory.
Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, the former army officer Richard Hannay settles in London and is restless and bored. Your mood literally changes overnight when a neighbor, Franklin Scudder reveals that he discovered a German plan to assassinate the Greek Prime Minister and steal the plans of Britain for the outbreak of the Great War. When...
The 39 Steps is an interactive adaptation of John Buchan’s 1915 espionage-thriller of the same name. The original story was a favorite of British troops during the war and has inspired countless adaptations, but with so many of them out there, did The Story Mechanics manage to do Buchan’s literary classic justice? Let’s take a look.
GIZORAMA - The 39 Steps is not a game. It can be best described as a digital adaption of a literary work. Sure it has interactive elements but those elements are the bare minimum of what can be defined as interactive. The Story Mechanics adapted the classic James Buchan’s espionage thriller to a digital visual novel for iOS devices, PC, Mac, and Linux. The original novel inspired Ian Fleming’s James Bond, various famous stage productions, a radio drama starring Orson Welles, and movies including an Alfred Hitchcock adaption. The history behind the book and its adaptation is classic enough to have its fans but leaves one to wonder if that is relevant enough for a new kind of adaptation for modern audiences.
