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The Warlock of Firetop Mountain has now been out in the wild for a whole week! We can hardly believe that the game we have been working so hard on for the last two years, is now being played by thousands of players across the world.

RELEASE WEEK!

It’s been an insanely busy release week as the team has been literally split down the middle. On the very morning of release on Steam, Ben and Clinton caught a flight from Melbourne to Seattle and spent four manic days showing Warlock off to the excited crowds. Lots of gamers passed by the booth and made a visit to Firetop Mountain. Fighting Fantasy isn’t as well known in the U.S. as it is in the UK, Europe and Australia, but the American players fell in love with Allansia – the reception has was immensely positive!

The other half of the team have been busy in the office, dealing with customer support and a range of bug fixes that generally accompany a big game release. Despite all the testing that we did prior to release, there were still a couple of rough edges in a few places. Many of you encountered a nasty ‘Resume Game’ bug that corrupted save games and we also had an issue with Souls not unlocking new characters on some computers. Those bugs and a few other minor issues have now been resolved with a number of updates, so please make sure you download the latest version from Humble and Steam. Thank you to everyone that messaged us with detailed descriptions of any problems you were having and thank you for your patience and understanding while we investigated the problems and instigated the fixes!

Please contact us if you encounter any more issues and we’ll look into them immediately!

PRESS RECEPTION!

Some great reviews have appeared online over the last week from many of the gaming outlets. Youtubers and Twitchers have also been busily streaming play-throughs and on the whole the response has been overwhelmingly positive! Here are some of the highlights…

“I can speak on behalf of Fighting Fantasy fans everywhere when I say that this is, to date, the most enjoyable and definitive adaptation of the gamebook” – Game Cynic – 8.3/10

“It’s absolutely delightful…” – PCWorld – 4/5

“…amazingly beautiful, fun and totally addictive. You can feel the love and soul of this game…” – Sticky Trigger – 8.6/10

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“It is THE closest experience to playing a table top RPG without actually sitting across a table with my buddies.” – Blaise Plays

“If you’re a fan of fantasy roleplaying, tabletop games, or choose-your-own-adventure stories, you will love The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. It’s nostalgic, but updated sufficiently so that it will appeal to those who have no background with the old Fighting Fantasy series. The puzzles and stories are engaging, the combat is fun, and you’ll find yourself playing far longer than you intended as you choose “just one more” junction to find what waits around the next turn.” – GeekDad

USER REVIEWS!

We’ve also had an incredible response by players on Steam and at the time of typing this, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain has 68 reviews with a 94% positive rating. Steam auto-updated our review status from Positive to Very Positive!

If you’ve left us a user review over the last few days, thank you so much! If you’re playing the game on Steam and enjoying it, please consider leaving the game a review. Reviews are key to pulling in gamers that may be on the fence about the game, especially those that have never heard of a gamebook before!

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UPDATES, DLC and LINUX!

We’ve had a few enquiries about the reasons why there was no DLC at launch, as stated in the original Kickstarter. There are a bunch of reasons for this and you can get all the information about that over on the Warlock Steam forum:

Rest assured DLC is coming and not only that, there will be FREE updates to the game in the coming months, with brand new heroes, quests and some new areas to explore! At the request of forum posters too, we are also looking into the possibility of adding in a feature that highlights completed quests as well as a possible creature collection.

We also couldn’t get the Linux version fully completed and tested for launch, so if you are a Linux user, we apologise and we are working on that over the next few weeks!

You’ll also be interested to know that we’ve started work on the iOS version of the game too and will be looking to release that, either later on this year or early 2017. We are still unsure at this stage whether an Android version is on the cards, but we’ll keep you all informed as to our plans with that version.

THE FUTURE!

What comes after The Warlock of Firetop Mountain depends solely on the success of this game. If it sells well, then the sky is the limit in terms of adapting more Fighting Fantasy gamebooks in this style and evolving it even further. If you want to see more then please share your love for the game across as many channels as possible!

A massive thanks to all of our Kickstarter Backers who helped make this game happen, and to everyone else who has supported us on our journey. It’s been incredibly rewarding adapting the grand-daddy of all fantasy gamebooks and we hope we can do more in the future.

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a single-player adventure gamebook written by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, and illustrated by Russ Nicholson. Originally published by Puffin Books in 1982, the title is the first gamebook in the Fighting Fantasy series. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2002, and Scholastic Books in 2017. As well as launching the Fighting Fantasy series, the gamebook inspired two direct sequels and five novels, and has been adapted into a board game, an audio drama and a video game.

Publication history[edit]

In 1980, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone attended a Games Day, and after meeting with a Penguin editor decided to create a series of single-player gamebooks.^[2] Their first submission, The Magic Quest, was a short adventure intended to demonstrate the style of game. The Magic Quest was eventually accepted by Penguin Books, although the authors devoted a further six months to expanding and improving upon the original concept.

The end result was The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and after several rewrites, the book was accepted and published in 1982 under Penguin's children's imprint, Puffin Books. The original cover of the book was illustrated by Peter Andrew Jones, with the interior illustrations by Russ Nicholson. Jackson and Livingstone approved all artwork.^[3]

The title, like the game books that followed in the Fighting Fantasy series, distinguished itself by featuring a fantasy role-playing element, with the caption on each cover reading 'a Fighting Fantasy gamebook in which YOU become the hero!' Uncertain as to how popular such a new and untried concept might prove to be, Penguin ran a first printing of just 5,000 copies.^[4] These quickly sold out, leading Penguin to do additional print runs.^[4][5]

The success of the Fighting Fantasy series (distribution in over 17 countries) allowed for numerous reprints of the original title,^[6] although the cover of subsequent versions changed due to deliberate redesign, printing errors,^[7] and releases in different markets.^[3][8][9] When the franchise was acquired by Wizard Books in 2002, the title (as with others in the series) was the first to be reprinted, again with a completely different cover, the rationale being that the old cover did not suit the modern market.^[10]

In 2007 Wizard Books released a special 25th anniversary edition, which included supplementary material. The cover for this edition had the original picture from the 1982 edition. In 2009 Wizard Books released another edition of the original book, with yet another new cover.

In 2017 Scholastic Books began publishing Fighting Fantasy books, and released a new edition of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with new interior art as well as a new cover.

Rules[edit]

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Plot[edit]

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a fantasy scenario involving a dungeon quest to find 'an untold wealth of treasure'.^[1]

The player takes the role of an adventurer travelling to find the treasure of a powerful Warlock, hidden deep within Firetop Mountain. People from a nearby village advise that the treasure is stored in a chest with two locks, and that the keys are guarded by various creatures within the dungeons. The player must then navigate the dungeons beneath Firetop Mountain, battle monsters and attempt to locate the keys.

Reception[edit]

Chris Pramas comments: 'The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, by Games Workshop founders Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, was a pioneering release that popularized the solo gamebook and successfully brought the roleplaying game experience to a wider audience. This book alone sold over two million copies and it was only the first of the Fighting Fantasy series. The Warlock of Firetop Mountain spawned 58 more Fighting Fantasy books in the original series, a support magazine, a board game, an ambitious spinoff series, several computer games, two traditional roleplaying games, and a series of fantasy novels. Then there was the legion of imitators, another sure sign of success. Not bad for a slim paperback less than 200 pages long.'^[11]

Reviews[edit]

• White Dwarf #36
• White Dwarf #83

Sequels[edit]

The title was followed by two sequels, one written by Ian Livingstone. The first, Return to Firetop Mountain (the 50th title in the Fighting Fantasy series) was published in 1992 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the franchise. The second sequel, Legend of Zagor (the 54th title in the series) was written by Carl Sargent although it was credited to Livingstone. It differed from traditional gameplay in that the player could choose one of four characters. Sargent also wrote The Zagor Chronicles which were also partly credited to Livingstone. It was a series of four novels published from 1993 to 1994. The warlock Zagor also appeared in the first Fighting Fantasy novel, The Trolltooth Wars (1989), by Steve Jackson.

In other media[edit]

A boardgame designed by Steve Jackson was released in 1986 by Games Workshop. Based on the book, players must navigate a maze and overcome monsters in a bid to be the first to open the Warlock's treasure chest.

A ZX Spectrum game based on the book was released by Crystal Computing in 1984.^[12]

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The gamebook was also converted into a 40-page d20 System role-playing adventure by Jamie Wallis. It was published by Myriador in 2003^[13][14] and reissued in pdf format by Greywood Publishing in 2008.^[15]

In 2009, Big Blue Bubble released an action-RPG for the Nintendo DS titled Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and based on the original title. In 2010, an electronic version of the title was released for the iPhone and iPad.^[16] Silver screen 1.0.1. When Big Blue Bubble later lost the license, all its apps were withdrawn. This gamebook has later been released by Tin Man Games.

On 10 February 2011 an Amazon Kindle edition of the title was launched by UK developer Worldweaver Ltd^[17] and in September 2011 a PSP and PlayStation 3 version was announced by UK developer Laughing Jackal.^[18]

On 30 October 2015 the Australian game developers Tin Man Games launched a Kickstarter project to develop a video game based on the book, which was released in 2016.^[19][20][21]

The gamebook was adapted into a role-playing adventure for the Advanced Fighting Fantasy system by Brett Schofield for Arion Games in 2016.^[22]

In July 2017 the British audio company FoxYason Music Productions, known for their work with Big Finish Productions, announced that they had obtained the licence to make an original audio drama based on The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. Sub-titled 'The Hero's Quest' the drama is written by David N. Smith and directed by Richard Fox and features many of the characters and locations from the original gamebook. The drama was released in September 2017 and features Toby Longworth as Zagor, Rachel Atkins as Vale Moonwing and Tim Treloar as Cassius Stormblade.^[23]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdSchick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 365. ISBN0-87975-653-5.
2. ^Mark J. Popp (27 November 2005). 'Fighting Fantasy FAQ'. Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 27 November 2005. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
3. ^ ^abMark J. Popp (27 November 2005). 'Fighting Fantasy FAQ'. Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 27 November 2005. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
4. ^ ^ab'NG Alphas: Deathtrap Dungeon'. Next Generation. No. 28. Imagine Media. April 1997. p. 94.
5. ^https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/bndz94/steve-jackson-ian-livingstone-283-v16n12
6. ^Mark J. Popp (27 November 2005). 'Fighting Fantasy FAQ'. Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 27 November 2005. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
7. ^'Fighting Fantasy FAQ on the Internet Archive record of the old fightingfantasy.com site'. Archived from the original on 27 November 2005.
8. ^'Fighting Fantasy FAQ on the Internet Archive record of the old fightingfantasy.com site'. Archived from the original on 27 November 2005.
9. ^'One'. Fightingfantasycollector.co.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
10. ^'Interview with Simon Flynn on the official Fighting Fantasy website'. Archived from the original on 22 March 2005.
11. ^Pramas, Chris (2007). 'The Warlock of Firetop Mountain'. In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 362–364. ISBN978-1-932442-96-0.
12. ^'Warlock of Firetop Mountain, The'. World of Spectrum. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
13. ^'Review of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain - RPGnet'. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
14. ^'SFandFantasy.co.uk - The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. 2003'. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
15. ^'Warlock of Firetop Mountain - RPG Geek'. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
16. ^'iTunes Store'. itunes.apple.com. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
17. ^'Fighting Fantasy gamebooks at Worldweaver Ltd'. worldweaver.com. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
18. ^'Laughing Jackal announce Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain'. laughingjackal.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
19. ^Valentin, Christian. 'Kickstart this: Tin Man Games re-imagines its classic Warlock of Firetop Mountain gamebook as a 3D RPG'. Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
20. ^Neumann, Dave. 'Ain't no smoggy smoke on Firetop: Tin Man Games' new version of Warlock of Firetop Mountain is mind-blowing'. Pocket Tactics. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
21. ^Smith, Adam. 'Fancy Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain Revamp'. Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
22. ^'Warlock of Firetop Mountain (2016) - RPG Geek'. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
23. ^http://www.fightingfantasyaudiodramas.com/

External links[edit]

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• Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks – the book at the official website
• Scholastic Books - site of the new publisher
• Wizard Books – the previous publisher's site
• Fighting Fantasy Audio Dramas - website of the audio drama adaptation

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