EARLY ACCESS: I INTERVIEW SIR IAN LIVINGSTONE, I PRESUME!
Added 2023-03-01 16:59:48 +0000 UTCThis week's Digi is a video I've wanted to make for aaaaaages, and it turned into a bit of an epic. Fighting Fantasy books were huge for me when I was growing up, and while we were planning for this ep it dawned on me that Sir Ian Livingstone - co-founder of Games Workshop, the man who brought Dungeons & Dragons to the UK, author of countless Fighting Fantasy books, the man who discovered Lara Croft - and I follow one another on Twitter.
So I asked him for an interview, and he said yes. For better or worse, we've not reigned in our usual excesses of nonsense (though as he IS a knight of the realm, I edited out one running gag that the £5-and-up tiers will get to see tomorrow in a bumper crop of outtakes), but the interview with Ian is as illuminating and interesting as I'd hoped.
As I said the other day, it's the first of what I hope will be one of many interviews on the channel with people I find interesting for one reason or another. I wasn't sure how it'd fit with our usual tone, but I'm very happy with this one. More!
WARNING: CONTAINS VIDEO GAME CONTENT!
(PS. I've not watched this back yet, so if I've messed up something I might have to take it down abruptly, but it's probably fine)
Comments
Ian Livingstone's face on realising he's at least partially responsible for Beanus: priceless!
Leighton Pritchard
2023-03-02 19:12:02 +0000 UTCHoorah! Looking forward to watching this tonight. I still have my Fighting Fantasy books from the 80s. Loved 'em! On a related note, I've done illustration work over the years for an old RPG game called Tunnels & Trolls, which was the second fantasy RPG to be invented (the first being Dungeons & Dragons). Designed as a simpler alternative to D&D (which it was heavily inspired by), it was playable with standard six-sided dice and was the first gaming system to introduce solo play, beating both Fighting Fantasy and Choose Your Own Adventure to the idea by quite a few years. One of the early solo adventures was called Deathtrap Equalizer Dungeon, released in 1977. I know the game was stocked in Games Workshop stores back in the early 80s. Coincidence?
Simon Lee Tranter
2023-03-02 13:54:56 +0000 UTC
