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Fighting Fantasy to head to gaming handhelds

Posted Dec 05, 2006 at 06:40AM by Ian C. Listed in: News, Fighting Fantasy Tags: London, Ian Livingstone, Steve Jackson
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Game makers and books books books!


Remember all those Fighting Fantasy books? You know, those books that added a dice mechanic to their Choose Your Own Adventure counterparts? Well, gaming legends Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson are teaming up with veteran development consultants Bad Management to bring the classic series of books to portable console platforms.

Here's Mr. Livingstone's comments on the move from book to handheld game:

Fighting Fantasy built up a huge, worldwide fan base over the years. We believe that players will really enjoy the adventures in a new way on DS and PSP. Fighting Fantasy's interactive structure is ideal for bite-sized chunks of gameplay which is important for these devices


We've given you Mr. Livingstone's credentials before, so we don't really have to tell you guys why he's big. So what about Steve Jackson? Well, he's not the guy who made manuals for those tabletop RPG folks, that guy happens to be American, although he did also write several Fighting Fantasy books (adding to the confusion). This particular Steve Jackson is a Professor of Game Design at London's Brunel University. Aside from the Fighting Fantasy books, he's also notable for having created 'F.I.S.T.', the world's first interactive telephone game.

If you can make a game that can make telephones interactive and fun (no gutter-minded phone-lovin' jokes please), you can probably make good games for the DS and the PSP.

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   by henkthehonk (Unregistered) - 2006-12-05
 » I am first
first post

   by Athr0x (Unregistered) - 2006-12-05
 » and..
..who cares ?

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   by UdderJuice (Unregistered) - 2006-12-05
 »  Thinking of trading in my PSP for a DS Lite..
have a DS and a PSP. I play my DS WAY more but I have quite a few UMD movies and I love my PSP as a portable movie player. But I recently got a 40 GB mp3 player and have my entire music collection on that and I am having a harder and harder time justifying holding on the the PSP.

I mean half the time it sits on my nightstand until the battery is dead. And I mean the system has failed, its practically dead so now's the time to trade cause I'll only get less money for it as time goes on.

I love the brighter screen and richer colors of the DS lite and if I traded in the PSP then I could give my wife my old DS (she's always complaining that she wants one.)

So I'm not really asking for advice just sharing. I think I know what I'm going to do I just still have a warm place in my heart for the PSP... :(

   by RPGash - 2006-12-05
 » Excellent news!
I loved the FF books. They were what got me into RPG's and the whole fantasy thing. These guys rock. I'll definitely get a hand-held version of it no matter if its on PSP or DS.

http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy

   by cool girl (Unregistered) - 2006-12-06
 » askings things
when final fantasy 3 ds is coming out in singapore



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