Ian Livingstone CBE interview on the early days before White Dwarf

[The Dozing Dragon]

Quite an interesting listen.



Dave

[Doomsdave]

Brilliant.  Thanks for sharing that.

[dampfpanzerwagon]

A great interview - I really enjoyed it.

And very professionally made.

Tony

[weismonsters]

A very pleasant way to spend 15 minutes. Thanks for postng this.

[Hammers]

Nerd culture at its finest. I have to admit that I had no idea who this chap is but it was interesting to learn.

[Pseudopod]

I really enjoyed that, thanks for posting it.

[Hammers]

No fighting fantasy as a kid then eh.

NO. I never did RPGs. I bought some 'Drakar and and Demoner' (Swedish brand) rules and source books, but that's the limit of it.

[von Lucky]

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

Have saved the Vimeo link for when I've got a quiet moment over the weekend.

[Hammers]

...While eclipsed by computer games these days they were quite popular back in the day....

The local wargames shops report a slight upswing in the business which a while ago seemed completely doomed because of computer games and, later, online shopping. The hypothesis is that the computer gamers are a bit fed up with just sitting before your computer and lust for the creative and social aspect of analog gaming again. Wargaming, whatever soupses may think, *is* at the core a very social thing so if the wargames shops have the right product mix of games/miniatures and activities they may, again, make a profit.

Anyone recognize this? I'd be most happy if this proves true.

[Doomhippie]

Ian Livingston is so unbelievably sympathetic in that interview. Thank goodness he was and still is such a gaming nerd. Thanks for sharing this.

[Damien]

I liked how the guy had the Necronomicon over his left shoulder.

[Archie]

Hmmm Viewing this on my phone and cant see a link to the interview?

Also there are now fighting fantasy books which are digitised and animated for the iphone I believe and a similar one for Judge Dredd. I have an android phone so dont know the link but worth a search if you are in the apple platform.

[jp1885]

FF books were a choose your own adventure sort of thing with a rudimentary combat system tacked on.

While eclipsed by computer games these days they were quite popular back in the day.

One very fine thing about them is they are wonderfully retro gaming. Very very 80's style dungeons.

The best product was Titan their world book. In that you can see the embryonic warhammer world when it was still in the womb. Even the maps look very similar.

If you want to see what they were all about I suggest Deathtrap Dungeon or City of Thieves. Both of those were a hoot and deathtrap would make great template for a dungeon bash game and city would be top notch RPG background.

They made deathtrap into a computer game too. IIRC it was on the PS1.

Oh and the artwork in them was f'ing awesome. Christ knows I drew that barbarian and chaos warrior from DD about a zillion times as a kid.

***warning all the above is heavily tinted by nostalgia specs, your milage my vary***

 

The great thing is that they're starting to be re-released as iPad apps now - happy days!