Find Your Fate

TheFirebird1

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Canon Status of Claude Belloq

Hello, fellow Raveners! Quite recently I was thinking about the FYF books, most notably Eye of the Fates, when I ended up remembering the character of Claude Belloq, Rene's notorious brother who operates out of a megalithic fortress on Hokkaido.
My question here is simple. Since Claude is only found in one (according to my memory) of the paths, is he considered a canon character or is his status still debated?
 

whipwarrior

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I doubt any of the FYF books are considered canon, since they were intended as game books for younger readers. Also, the years of certain adventures clash with Raiders & ToD timelines, which further precludes them from official (or otherwise) Indy canon.
 

TheFirebird1

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whipwarrior said:
I doubt any of the FYF books are considered canon, since they were intended as game books for younger readers. Also, the years of certain adventures clash with Raiders & ToD timelines, which further precludes them from official (or otherwise) Indy canon.
Thanks for the answer. Although it's unfortunate that the FYF books hold dubious status as canon, it figures that the issues that they present inevitably invalidate them.
 

TheFirebird1

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Find Your Fate Concept Art

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As we wait with baited breath for #5, I thought it fitting to share an obscure piece of media from the FYF series—this right here is a concept sketch by David B. Mattingly for Indiana Jones and the Curse of Horror Island, the first title released under the Find Your Fate banner penned by a then-unknown R.L. Stine. It certainly differs quite a bit compared to the final copy.

On another note, I found this image on David B. Mattingly's website. He used to have high quality, textless covers of all the FYF books he worked on there as of a few months ago, but unfortunately the searchable database on his site seems to have shut down and I can't retrieve them :cry:. All I have left to say is this—it'd be pretty neat if the FYF books were reprinted to coincide with Indy 5. The chances of this happening are close to zero, but a Ravener can dream.
 

TheFirebird1

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That's great, thanks for sharing! I must say, I do enjoy the pulpiness of that title 'Curse of Horror Island'!
No problem! And agreed—the FYF series certainly embraced the pulpiness of the Indy franchise constantly, whether with titles such as Curse of Horror Island, Cult of the Mummy's Crypt or Ape Slaves of Howling Island (R.L. Stine, it seems, has a particular fixation on placing Indy in islands with particularly nasty adjectives describing them). The books are wonderful pieces of nostalgia.
 

Randomdays

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Probably posted in the wrong thread originally, but you can find 6 of the FYF Indy books at "openlibrary.org", a sister site to "archive.org"

You can check them out for up to weeks at a time. I saved some videos of the pages flipping though to the end for later use when I had them.

Otherwise, digital versions seem impossible to find.

Went online searching for some more copies of the books. The physical copies can be expensive, but I bought an original print of "Cup of the Vampire" for $6.00 USD and a reprint copy of "Mummy's Crypt" for 5.00 USD, both from ebay. This gives me 8 out of the 11 to work with.

It looks like prices have gone up over the years though.

I also read thru the thread and saw that Whipwarrior had setup 17 as an online browser type game.

Started work on turning FYF 04 "Eye of the Fates" into a similar game app. It'll be for windows, possibly Android, and possibly online. I'm using the Quest app which I'm familiar with - it does IF and gamebooks.

Without scans, I'm typing it in as I go, but its shorter than the last one I did with a different app - that was 128 pages with 25 pages of pics, while this is only 122 pages total.

I'll post a link to it when its done for anyone who wants to try it - hopefully in about a week.
 

Randomdays

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Thank you for these.

For those interested, the two books are "Eye of the Fates" and "Lost Treasure of Sheba". They converted fine to pdfs and the hyperlinks are intact. I had started on "Eye of the Fates" myself (see above) but this makes that redundant.

I'll wait to see what the third book rhinokey has before starting again.

On other, semi related news, I didn't buy a lot of these kind of books back in the 80's - and mainly put them on the shelf "for later" - so they're in really good shape. It turns out that the 3 Conan and 2 Tarzan "Endless Quest" book I have are rare and worth a bit.

And, if anyone ever read Alfred Hitchcock's "Three Investigators" series, there are 4 "Find Your Fate" books made off of them. I found a tribute site when searching that had all 4 books as pdfs and downloaded them.
 

Randomdays

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I finished turning the "Cup of the Vampire" gamebook into an app and posted it on the Palm DB website. Included with it is a short readme and the windows version of the app needed to run the adventure.

I actually liked this book a lot. Depending on your beginning choices, there are three completely separate plot lines to go through with very little crossover or reuse of the story lines, so there's some good replay value.

I also finished and uploaded a Tarzan adventure, "The Tower of Diamonds", which has a bit of an Indy feel to it.

Not sure when the next one will be done, but it will probably be "Cult of the Mummy's Crypt"

The link for the download is here;

https://palmdb.net/app/gamebook-fyf05-cup-of-the-vampire
 

rhinokey

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Randomdays, I have a bunch of those Endless Quest books but not the Conan or Tarzan ones. They were too expensive at the time I was collecting them and they appear to have only increased in price. I also have Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Thundercats FYF books but none of the hitchcock ones. https://gamebooks.org/Category/42 is a great site to check to find old gamebooks based on movie and tv properties.

Also, while not the 3rd FYF book that I promised, I made the whole Young Indiana Jones Series into ebooks a while ago and thought I'd share them here.

https://www18.zippyshare.com/v/eZkRPmfs/file.html
 
I've been trying to collect all the Indiana Jones books, whether digital or physical for an upcoming Indy novel EU retrospective video series (one I plan to make after my retrospective on the ET sequel novel). As these were the first Indy EU novels (aside from the novelizations of the first two films), I wanted to try to collect all these in preparation for the video. So far, I've only collected two of the Find Your Fate books physically, those two being Curse of Horror Island and Cup of the Vampire. However, I've managed to find scans of a good chunk of the novels thanks to archive.org. Additionally, thanks to "Randomdays", we have an app conversion of the "Cup of the Vampire" book (Btw, if you also have the straight text of Cup of the Vampire, which could potentially be made into an epub/pdf, could you please share it?)

"whipwarrior" also turned the Indiana Jones and the Mask of the Elephant book into a digital website game. I was actually trying to convert it into an epub, but sadly, I found out that page 119 is missing, meaning that route is completely unattainable as I don't know what it says, nor do I know what other paths it led to. Without the page, a complete digital preservation is impossible. If anyone happens to have a copy of that book, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could either transcribe or take a picture of page 119, so I can properly put together a preserved epub version.

Here's all of the books I've found currently preserved digitally:

1. Indiana Jones and the Curse of Horror Island (1984) - R. L. Stine (Scan): https://mega.nz/file/6F0i0ajS#VKRZHgrnU34XCRVyUn6sYiI7mQAR4zdetT47QgDuQ5g

2. Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasure of Sheba (1984) - Rose Estes (Scan): https://mega.nz/file/iRUAiBTa#teV9BGP_W-1amEDaUaVRsjSkFWaEYFrC_q5CaURsfRE

4. Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Fates (1984) - Richard Wenk (Scan): https://mega.nz/file/eAtljZZT#VZAGQTaKu01nnOCkkTlxovZNnf0XC4e7Ua-7rP8URKc

5. Indiana Jones and the Cup of the Vampire (1984) - Andrew Helfer (App Conversion): https://palmdb.net/app/gamebook-fyf05-cup-of-the-vampire / https://mega.nz/file/TBd1lbRK#O7KFd_HjjjoqAakfLYY0AqPjvD99w2w9GHz6uyqj_a0

7. Indiana Jones and the Cult of the Mummy's Crypt (1985) - R. L. Stine (Scan): https://mega.nz/file/bQU0xBjL#NHywx6kZoIGTyxXl-TDGiXOiBNEjgEFUS7KwiVp_cyQ

8. Indiana Jones and the Dragon of Vengeance (1985) - Megan Stine and H. William Stine (Scan): https://mega.nz/file/qZ9lhD4S#wRzm1tzfa7OZNfoOXwEMGPKNOO1KVrgYcjDoI-o09Mw

9. Indiana Jones and the Gold of Genghis Khan (1985) - Ellen Weiss (Scan): https://mega.nz/file/DYFRhLjI#5jEihy9rJCygcZCZHt1DjXf2FVKOZsfYdkWh81Jbk90

16. Indiana Jones and the Ape Slaves of Howling Island (1986) - R. L. Stine (Scan): https://mega.nz/file/eAdDyRxL#89N54t9F5FFURHP1DhkthUQI4INr_dlrz2cDSUrACA8

17. Indiana Jones and the Mask of the Elephant (1987) - Megan Stine and H. William Stine (INCOMPLETE Website Conversion): https://newsradiofanfic.angelfire.com/Mask_of_the_Elephant.html
 

drmc

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For anyone interested, I see that GroovyJake mentions that the website with Mask of the Elephant was incomplete with page 119 missing. Well, I had pdf'd those pages years ago and it seems my version has that page. I checked the old website and I see what he means by page 119 missing, but as I said, it is present in my version. So, not an actual scan of the book, just converted the pages to separate word docs and combined them. It's not searchable or anything (I don't have that technical know-how), but certainly readable. Enjoy

 

TheFirebird1

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The beautiful cover art featured on all 9 of the David B. Mattingly-illustrated Indy FYF gamebooks. There's something wonderfully Struzan-esque about the art, and the fact that Mattingly did most of it without reference images of any kind is incredible. Glad to see his website is back up and fully functional.

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Some updates to my Indy Find Your Fate books that have been digitally preserved:

As drmc has mentioned, The Cup of the Vampire has appeared on Archive.org, which I was able to turn into a scanned .cbr file. He also provided the only complete PDF preservation of Mask of the Elephant, but the link seems dead. I saved it and uploaded it to mega.nz.

5. Indiana Jones and the Cup of the Vampire (1984) - Andrew Helfer (Scan): https://mega.nz/file/OMN3HTKL#HokLahM3D_pTjgN46pSoA6YCVxlEqSuRXh_67Do0jdw

17. Indiana Jones and the Mask of the Elephant by Megan Stine and H. William Stine (PDF Conversion): https://mega.nz/file/HJFyRB5a#43JXiqD-rfv5hvTd-WMc98jjTfVZv5QHsSDd0hMmALI
 

Indyfan!91

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I'm looking for the young Indiana Jones chronicles choose your own adventure books dose anyone know where I can find the irish rebellion in pdf format
 

indy-lucas-50

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totally forgot about this series. i just got some of them off eBay. in amazing shape too for being nearly 40 years old!! thanks for the info.
 
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