Fighting Fantasy Classics News

Steel your nerves and ready your dice. Eye of the Dragon is coming to Fighting Fantasy Classics on April 22nd! Penned by series co-creator Ian Livingstone and originally released in 2005 during the Wizard Books revival, this legendary dungeon crawler marked a triumphant return for Fighting Fantasy in the early 2000s.

Eye of the Dragon invites YOU to embark on a perilous quest deep beneath Darkwood Forest in search of the fabled Golden Dragon - rumoured to be the most valuable treasure in all of Allansia. Your journey begins in a tavern in Fang, where a mysterious stranger offers you the chance of a lifetime. But beware - before you even set foot in the labyrinth, you must survive a deadly potion!


Inside the maze, you’ll face the usual savage creatures, deadly traps, and puzzles, a staple of FF gamebooks, that will test your wit and courage. Along the way, discover maps, magical artifacts, jewels, and even an imprisoned dwarf who may just be the key to your survival.

WISHLIST NOW!

The legendary Fighting Fantasy Classics library has just expanded with the addition of Starship Traveller, the first-ever science-fiction gamebook in the Fighting Fantasy series. Originally written by Steve Jackson and first published in 1984, this intergalactic choice-based adventure is now available to download. After we first released this gamebook as a Standalone title 10 years ago, it's returned, re-coded from the ground up to fill in the fourth slot on your FF digital bookshelf!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3510410/Starship_Traveller_Fighting_Fantasy_Classics/

In Starship Traveller, YOU are the captain of the Starship Traveller, lost in an uncharted universe after being pulled through the terrifying Seltsian Void. Stranded far from home, you must explore alien planets, negotiate with strange civilizations, and survive deep-space battles to find the way back to Earth. Every decision you make affects your crew, your ship, and your survival—will you lead your team to victory or be lost in the void forever? What’s Next for Fighting Fantasy Classics?
The adventure doesn’t stop here! In approximately six weeks, Fighting Fantasy Classics will expand once again with the release of Eye of the Dragon, written by Ian Livingstone. This classic dungeon-crawling fantasy adventure invites players to seek out the legendary Eye of the Dragon, a powerful gem hidden deep within a treacherous labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and deadly challenges. Fans of traditional Fighting Fantasy gamebooks won’t want to miss this epic test of skill and luck!



Keep adventuring and may your STAMINA never fail!

The Tin Man Games team

As promised in our previous announcement, Fighting Fantasy Classics has now been updated with a host of new features! These include:

• Steam Cloud Saves for both PC and Mac players
  
• New Bookmarking and Saving system
  
• Support for up to three adventurer profiles per gamebook
  
• Controller Support
  
• Comprehensive Steam Deck support
  
• Some UI and Layout improvements
  

Hot on the heels of this update will be the release of Starship Traveller in a few weeks, along with the announcement of the next Fighting Fantasy gamebook joining the library. Keep an Eye out for that!

Hello adventurers! We have an update that we'll be pushing up in the next week or so that brings some QoL improvements to Fighting Fantasy Classics, particularly if you're playing your gamebooks on a Steam Deck.

[h3]1) New Save System[/h3]

Support has been added for three adventure profiles per FF gamebook. This means you can have multiple run-throughs with three different characters, each with 100 page saves (bookmarks) that also include the time and date of the save. We'll also be giving you the ability to delete your bookmarks too, a regularly requested feature! You'll also be able to delete an adventure profile, if you feel you've wandered too far down one of Ian or Steve's notorious story dead-ends.



[h3]2) Controller Support[/h3]

We're making full use of modern controllers, with a mind to making the game more playable on your handheld device of choice, or using controllers on your computer. For Steam Deck users this means using buttons to select buttons, roll dice and turn pages, rather than using the mousepad, which can sometimes feel a little cumbersome in FFC. Keyboard support is also included that should hopefully help us when requesting our big green Steam Deck tick!



[h3]3) Updates to page layouts[/h3]

And finally, we've made some minor tweaks to the the page layouts, which should now make better use of the original gamebook page dividers - a HUGE part of an FF gamebook's aesthetic. An embossed FF logo will also replace blank, empty pages on the right, which reinforces the FF brand in screenshots, and helps add a bit more character to the presentation.

If you're an FF fan and you've been on the fence with regards to making your Steam library portable, now may be a good time! ːwarlockorcː

Coming very soon.