Fighting Fantasy to head to gaming handhelds

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.

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.