Talk:Living Books

I personally handled the localization of Living Books when I worked there as an Art Technician. Tortoise and the Hare was indeed localized, but the localized versions were never sold in the U.S. as far as I know. We did them in German, French, and British English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.207.23.39 (talk) 07:21, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

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NOTES: † = Only English is available as a language for that Living Books Program. Just Grandma and Me is the only Living Books Program to have more than 2 languages. Many Living books were converted into Japanese as well and they sold very well in Japan.

LIES! I have The Tortoise and The Hare in English and Spanish, and it includes demos in the CD for other Living Books games which are all in more than three languages.

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I'm not sure if anyone keeps this page up to date, but I swear on my own grave that there was a system (a video game system) made exclusively for point-'n-click games. In fact, we even had the game "My Grandma and Me" for this system. But I cannot seem to find ANYTHING on the Internet that says there was such a system. It also had other point-'n-click games, like a Haunting game (something about going around a house, checking under the bed for clues, etc), a camera game (taking pictures of the zoo wildlife)...

Someone HAS to know what I'm talking about. This system took CDs and the controllers were wireless (you had to aim them just right at the receiver or else your input wouldn't go through)... I think it's mascot was some kind of hero Chicken or something...

Please. Please. PLEASE someone help me out and we can update Wikipedia with our information. I can't even find the system's listing on GameFAQs.com... My family couldn't have been hallucinating, there had to be more than one of these around!

---- Are you talking about the VIS system? I remember having one in the mid-90's, and the mascot was an owl locked in a cage, and you had to push a button to let him out, and if you didn't, a worm would show up and do it.

It featyred a lot of previews of other things, with Sam the owl getting in on it inbetween.

It also came with a bonus game called "SpaceNuts," which was a shooter that you had to fire at this huge mouth/vulva thing at the end.

Is this what you're referring to? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.206.69.158 (talk) 20:52, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

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I've never heard of a game system designed specifically for point and click adventures, but you can take a look at this list if you haven't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_consoles

Krunchyman (talk) 20:27, 25 June 2011 (UTC)Krunchyman

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So, about The Art Lesson... I can now confirm it, it's definitely not a Living Book: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Mohawk/Games#Not_Living_Books

It makes it all the more puzzling as to why it was even part of that compilation to begin with.

Mr. Eight-Three-One (talk) 19:46, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

WP:NOTHOWTO

Please stop adding information about which buttons do what in the software. Wikipedia is not an Instruction manual. Toddst1 (talk) 16:29, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Amkgp (talk) 11:32, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that book publisher Random House and games publisher Broderbund joint ventured a series of interactive storybook software called Living Books?
  • ALT1:... that Mark Schlichting, creator of interactive storybook series Living Books, was inspired by the interactive world of Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who! he remembered from his childhood?
  • ALT2: ... that the Los Angeles Times criticized Disney for contracting their interactive storybooks to independent studios, deeming their series a "mere imitation of Broderbund's Living Books format". (But when it comes to delivering what the industry likes to call a quality “interactive experience,” Disney contracts the programming to independent studios--with uneven results. While The Lion King Activity Center, developed with Gryphon Software Corp., is widely admired, Disney’s Animated Storybook series, developed with Media Station, is seen as a mere imitation of Broderbund’s Living Books format.)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Brönnestad Church
• Comment: This is my first DYK nomination in a long time so please be a little patient. I am open to your suggestions and excited by the opportunity to see this article be approved.

5x expanded by Coin945 (talk). Self-nominated at 14:29, 22 October 2020 (UTC).

• Reviewing Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:00, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

• Can we move the "Games in the series" bit down? Seems odd having it as the first thing in the prose (also, are these games, or books?) Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

• Moved the table down to the bottom of the page, changed title to 'Titles in the Series', and reworded first two columns to clearly differentiate source material vs Living Books programs.--Coin945 (talk) 09:04, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

• long enough, expansion in time Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
• Copyvio brings up this, might need an investigation? The block quote in particular is too much. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

• I've now reviewed the probematic sources and reworded all appropriate sections. The copyvio ranking for the top two sources are still 59.9% and 43.2% but basically all of this is names of books and titles of relevant officials (e.g. "Alberto Vitale, head of Random House Publishing" which need to be copied verbatim). I hope this will suffice.--Coin945 (talk) 11:33, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

After a major edit I'm now up to 61.3% for the top source. Let me have another crack at this once I've had some sleep.--Coin945 (talk) 17:16, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Upon investigation, I don't think I've really used too much from those top-listed sources in the copyvio ranking due to the reasons listed above. I'll do another pass soon, and would welcome your opinion.--Coin945 (talk) 17:25, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

• Issues with the hooks, these are more just facts about the subject, rather than a hook. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

• A hook involving The LA Times criticized Disney for contracting their games to independent studios, deeming the series a "mere imitation of Broderbund's Living Books format. might be good, something describing it as a "mere imitation" is quite hooky for a completely different series. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

• What about The Los Angeles Times criticized Disney for contracting their interactive storybooks to independent studios, deeming the series a "mere imitation of Broderbund's Living Books format. --Coin945 (talk) 09:04, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

• Thank you for these comments @Lee Vilenski:, I'll address them asap.--Coin945 (talk) 08:57, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

• Coin945, Lee Vilenski, this nomination page hasn't been edited since late October, over three weeks ago. What is the status of this nomination? BlueMoonset (talk) 00:46, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

• Hi @BlueMoonset:, I'm still keen to see this nom through to the end. I haven't heard back from Lee in a while, hope their doing okay! I'm happy for you BlueMoonset to offer a DYK review. :)--Coin945 (talk) 06:46, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

• Apologies for this, I'd forgotten about this nom - happy to support. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:47, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

• Lee Vilenski, I don't see any QPQ provided, and Coin945 has far more than five prior DYK credits. Coin945, you will need to get moving on your DYK review if you wish this to pass. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:34, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

• DYK now completed with Template:Did you know nominations/Brönnestad Church. --Coin945 (talk) 01:50, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

• Repinging Lee Vilenski; if the QPQ is okay, then please add a new tick icon below. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:45, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

- with QPQ done, happy to promote. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:36, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

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Proposed merge of Wanderful Interactive Storybooks into Living Books

I have written a comprehensive article for Living Books which I believe makes this article redundant. Coin945 (talk) 01:12, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

@Coin945: I think it's fair to say that you can be bold and complete this merge. – Rhain ☔ 06:40, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

As the Founder of Wanderful Interactive Storybooks, I think you have created a wonderful page for Living Books that fully captures their history.

And while you incorporated much of the content on our (copyrighted) Wanderfulstorybooks.com website, you have NOT incorporated all of the information and believe that having BOTH entries on Widipedia will help avoid confusion about the Wanderful products and history.

MW Mantle mmantle@wanderfulstorybooks.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.70.134.143 (talk) 20:56, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

@73.70.134.143: Hi Mickey, nice to meet you! Thank you for your kind words on my 'wanderful' (haha) page. If there's any other info you think I should include in the Living Books article, let me know.--Coin945 (talk) 23:20, 7 July 2021 (UTC)