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August 6th, 2009 at 01:30pm
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click to Firetop Mountain-sizeAspyr kindly sent us some exclusive screens and artwork for Big Blue Bubble’s Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the action-RPG based on the classic roleplaying book. Looking over the screenshots, we get a very mid-’90s PC RPG vibe, which is totally cool with us. Stuff like Etrian Odyssey and The Dark Spire satisfies our nostalgia for even older first-person role-playing, but these high-detail 2D sprites on 3D backgrounds hit a different era of nostalgia.
Also in the gallery, two panoramic pieces of environment concept art like the “Dwarven Room” above. The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is expected to reach the Fortress of Retail this holiday season.
First look in first-person: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 23rd, 2009 at 12:00pm
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Big Blue Bubble had difficulty finding a publisher for The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, its newly announced DS adaptation of the Fighting Fantasy book series, before finally discovering Aspyr Media. Damir Slogar, the developer’s CEO, told CVG (who also has the first screens of the game) that other publishers expressed a lack of interest in the game based on its platform.
“Everyone we showed the game loved it but the ‘big guys’ like EA, Ubi or Activision were not interested in DS only titles,” Slogar said. That attitude is no surprise from the massively multiplatform EA and Activision, but it’s unusual coming from Ubisoft, which has the DS-exclusive COP: The Recruit on the way and has made a pile of money from the infamous, primarily DS-based Petz and Imagine lines.
Warlock of Firetop Mountain dev: ‘big guys’ not interested in DS-exclusive games originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 9th, 2009 at 06:01am
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Canadian developer Big Blue Bubble is working on an action RPG for the DS named “The Warlock of Firetop Mountain.” Sound familiar? Some of you may recognize it as the first book in Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s Fighting Fantasy book series — portable gaming for the pre-Gameboy crowd. This game, based on the book, will be published by Aspyr Media and will release this holiday season.
Jackson and Livingstone have both been involved with the project, helping Big Blue Bubble nail the look and feel of the Fighting Fantasy universe. While the last Fighting Fantasy book to be made into a video game, Deathtrap Dungeon, wasn’t particular successful — or good — Warlock of Firetop Mountain looks to remain much more faithful to the book. Hey, games industry. You know what else would make a good transition from book to game? The Lone Wolf series. You should get on that.
Big Blue Bubble developing Warlock of Firetop Mountain for DS originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is based on a fantasy gamebook of the same name — essentially Dungeons & Dragons crossed with Choose Your Own Adventure. In my case, the story I managed to weave for myself is the epic tale of an adventurer who wanders into a cave and is swiftly murdered by dwarves.
