The company behind the popular "Choose Your Own Adventure" book series is hoping to go digital by launching a version for tablets.
"Choose Your Own Adventure" books are the interactive series where the reader assumes the role of the hero and embarks on a different storyline with each read.
The reader is asked to make a number of choices, and depending on what path he or she takes, either continues on with the adventure, fails or (even worse) dies.
Now the company behind the books has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring the classic series to tablets … but with some new updates and tweaks.
The new "Choose 'Toons" books will use interactive cartoons to help guide readers through the story, publisher Shannon Gilligan says in a video posted on the project's Kickstarter page.
Animated characters will ask the readers to make a number of choices that will ultimately lead to different endings.
Readers will be able to select their choices with their fingers, making the experience more "intimate" and more "immediate," R.A. Montgomery, co-founder and long-time author of the "Choose" books, said.
The pair added that the element of touch was especially important in the new book series.
"Touching the screen makes a big difference in making you feel in control, and making you feel like you are making a real choice," they said on the Kickstarter page.
The first book is based on the title "Your Very Own Robot," and will ask the reader to assemble a robot named Gus. It will have 20 different story branches with 11 possible endings, and will feature more than 30 minutes of animation.
Gilligan said that tablet technology has really opened up possibilities for the "Choose" books.
"We finally have the medium available to us to deliver 'Choose Your Own Adventure' visually, and with all the power of interactivity (and) all the intimacy of you being the choice-maker," she said.
The "Choose 'Toons" books will be aimed at kids between the ages of five to seven, and will be available for iPads and Kindles.
