Showing posts with label Mike Schley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Schley. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Some Fighting Fantasy news, January 2015

Well, the new year marches on and I'm currently writing something else (work stuff), and I tend to find when I'm in the swing of writing something, it's hard to get the inspiration for writing other things. So I'm a bit late this week on the blog and don't have anything ready to discuss in detail right now (though I have been working on a couple of things in the background, so watch this space). There have been a few bits and pieces of interesting news on the FF front though, which I thought I'd share with you just in case you've missed any of them.
  • Inkle's Sorcery! 3 is thankfully coming our way, though there's no date yet for its release. In the mean time, we can enjoy this fab illustration of the Baklands' most iconic creature, the Baddu-Beetle.
  • While we wait though, there's more Mike Schley loveliness in the form of poster-sized prints of his maps from the first two Inkle Sorcery! adventures. These look bloody brilliant and I can't wait till the end of the month when I (might) have some spare cash to order them!
  • Bloodbones is here! The Tin Man Games app of Jon Green's FF adventure is already available via Google Play (since December 24th), and they have announced that it will be available tomorrow via iOS. Great stuff, looking forward to it.
  • Issue 14 of Fighting Fantazine is out, and features a brilliant in-depth interview with Fighting Fantasy legend Marc Gascoigne (where we finally learn more about his unpublished/unwritten FF adventure, Night of the Creature), a report on the Fighting Fantasy Fest, a mini (but not that mini!) Lone Wolf adventure by the Kai Master himself, Simon Osborne, and all the usual features.
  • And a shout out for another FF blog which is great but a bit under the radar, Brett Schofield's excellent Trolltooth. Some nice discussion on there, and his latest posts have really got me thinking and are providing inspiration for future musings on here.
I think that's about it for now, let me know if you've heard about anything else of note.

Sunday, 10 November 2013

Mike Schley's Inkle Sorcery! maps

Have you played the Inkle Sorcery! adventures yet? They're brilliant, lush updates of the classic FF series. I'll talk about them more in later posts (especially once I've had a chance to play Kharé more); for now I just want to say how much I like Mike Schley's wonderful maps, which really add to the experience (the other maps on his website aren't half bad either). You can see the whole Shamutanti Hills map here, and you can view part of the Kharé map here (I can't find the full map online yet).

Beautiful! It looks like I'm going to have to update my article, The geography of Kharé, which appeared in issue 12 of Fighting Fantazine... Watch this space for more discussion of the Inkle apps and maps.

  • UPDATE 13/11/2013: Mike Schley has now made the full map of Kharé available here. Wonderful!