Today we are excited to reveal the list of talks, panels and interviews that will be taking place through the day at
Fighting Fantasy Fest 3, on
Saturday 31st August at the University of West London in Ealing.
There will be two strands of talks taking place simultaneously in two adjoining halls, featuring the artists, authors and other creators in attendance. However, things have been arranged so that if you wish, you can miss the Q&A session at the end of a talk in one room in order to listen to the start of a talk in the other room.
Firetop Mountain
(Weston Hall)
Talks – Strand A
10:30am – Portals of
Death
Peter Darvill-Evans, author of
Beneath Nightmare Castle, Portal of Evil and
Spectral Stalkers, and Jamie Thomson, co-author of
Talisman of Death,
Sword of the Samurai and
The
Keep of the Lich-Lord, discuss planning interactive adventures with Jon
Ingold, narrative director of inkle studios.
11:30am – Assassins
of Allansia
Ian Livingstone will be discussing his new Fighting Fantasy gamebook, Assassins of Allansia, with the book’s
illustrator and cover artist, Robert Ball.
12:30pm – Secrets of
Firetop Mountain
Guests of Honour Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone are joined
by illustrator Russ Nicholson and original commissioning editor Geraldine Cooke
to talk about how the original Fighting
Fantasy gamebook, The Warlock of
Firetop Mountain, came into existence.
2:00pm – Maker of
Monsters
Artist Robert Ball talks about his work for Scholastic Books
on the Fighting Fantasy range, and
how he goes about creating the macabre monsters encountered throughout the
adventures.
3:00pm – The
Adventures of Achilleos
Gamebook author Martin Noutch interviews the legendary
fantasy artist Chris Achilleos about his work for Fighting Fantasy, and beyond.
The Black Tower
(Lammas Hall)
Talks – Strand B
10:00am – Master of
Scorpions
Fighting Fantasy
author and historian Jonathan Green talks to artist Duncan Smith about his
contribution to the worlds of
Fighting
Fantasy, notably both the gamebook
Scorpion
Swamp and
Fighting Fantasy – The
Introductory Role-playing Game.
11:00am – The Pen is
Mightier
Fighting Fantasy artists
Malcolm Barter, Alan Langford, Tony Hough and Pete Knifton, talk with Stuart
Lloyd about what it’s like to illustrate the myriad monsters, environments and
inhabitants of Titan and beyond.
12:00pm – Advanced
Adventures
Graham Bottley of Arion Games talks about the company’s plans for the Advanced Fighting Fantasy Second Edition role-playing game.
There will also be signings taking place throughout the day, as well as performances of
Steve Jackson's House of Hell LIVE, and
John Robertson's The Dark Room. A full schedule for the day will be released very soon.
There are just two weeks to go until
Fighting Fantasy Fest 3, so if you haven't bought your ticket yet,
make sure you do so before they sell out!
