Sorcery! The Shamutanti Hills Fighting Fantasy Map

  

I have now completed the next Fighting Fantasy map,  Sorcery!  The Shamutanti Hills .... A3 prints are now available to purchase via Ebay or Etsy ;-)

Map prints for books numbers 1 - 7 & 10; Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Citadel of Chaos, Forest of Doom, Starship Traveller, City of Thieves, Deathtrap Dungeon, Island of the Lizard King & House of Hell are also available to purchase from the above links.  

Official Fighting Fantasy website: https://www.fightingfantasy.com

Fighting Fantasy is a trademark owned by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone.  All rights reserved.  

Interviewed By Fighting Fantasy

 I was delighted to be interviewed by Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks for my solution maps.

"Scott Mackay has been interviewed by the Warlock about his Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks maps."

The interview can be found here;

https://officialfightingfantasy.blogspot.com/2025/05/scott-mackays-fighting-fantasy-maps.html

Island of the Lizard King Fighting Fantasy Map

 

I have now completed the next Fighting Fantasy map, book number 7 Island of the Lizard King .... A3 prints are now available to purchase via Ebay or Etsy ;-)

Hopefully you and Mungo (RIP!) can destroy the Lizard King!

Map prints for books numbers 1 - 7 & 10; Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Citadel of Chaos, Forest of Doom, Starship Traveller, City of Thieves, Deathtrap Dungeon & House of Hell are also available to purchase from the above links.  

Official Fighting Fantasy website: https://www.fightingfantasy.com

Fighting Fantasy is a trademark owned by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone.  All rights reserved.  

House of Hell Fighting Fantasy Map Completed

I have now completed the next Fighting Fantasy map, book number 10 House of Hell .... A3 prints are now available to purchase via Ebay or Etsy ;-)

Don't let Lord Kelnor know you have the map especially as it will help you acquire the Kriss Knife!

Map prints for books numbers 1 - 6; Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Citadel of Chaos, Forest of Doom, Starship Traveller, City of Thieves and Deathtrap Dungeon are also available to purchase from the above links.  

Official Fighting Fantasy website: https://www.fightingfantasy.com

Fighting Fantasy is a trademark owned by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone.  All rights reserved.  

Deathtrap Dungeon Fighting Fantasy Map Completed

I have now completed the next Fighting Fantasy map, book number 6 Deathtrap Dungeon .... A3 prints are available to purchase through all good book shops, ahem I mean Ebay or Etsy ;-)

Again, I really enjoyed drawing and painting this one and redrawing my favourite illustrations ... probably the seated Dwarf is my favourite

As normal I have listed and shown each item available to pick up during the book, and number any rooms you can enter ... certainly helps you to complete the book, without giving too much away, plus the A3 maps look great on the wall :-)

Official Fighting Fantasy website: https://www.fightingfantasy.com

Fighting Fantasy is a trademark owned by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone.  All rights reserved. 

Fighting Fantasy Maps

I was absolutely delighted to sign a licence with Fighting Fantasy (Steve Jackson and Sir Ian Livingstone) to produce maps of their books.

To those not in the know, Fighting Fantasy is a series of Choose your own adventures books where the player plays through the book in a nonlinear fashion.  Fighting Fantasy differentiated itself from other Choose your own adventure books by introducing dice and stats.  The books usually had 400 "entries" and the player had to make a series of decisions and turn to that particular entry .... i.e. "Do you take the left fork in the road turn to 236, or follow the thief and go right, turn to 85".

The books started in 1982 and are still being produced Today!  59 books have been released selling over 20 million copies in total!

So far I have produced maps for the 1st five books; The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, The Citadel of Chaos, The Forest of Doom, Starship Traveller and the City of Thieves.

I spent ages replaying the books to work out all the paths through the books and identifying all the items you can pick up along the way.

I also redraw the maps multiple times till I am happy with the final draft version.  Then on good quality watercolour paper I did the final drawing and paint it with various watercolour layers on top.  Finally I scan in the map before working on it digitally to tidy it up and finish it off 

My Maps are available to buy through either my Ebay or Etsy page

Official Fighting Fantasy website: https://www.fightingfantasy.com

Fighting Fantasy is a trademark owned by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone.  All rights reserved. 

Westheart Album Cover

I Was delighted to collaborate with the super talented @westheartmusic on the cover for his album "The Space Between Darkness & Light".  

Beautiful ambient mindful music, available to stream now.  

Head over to https://www.westheart.co.uk/ to listen to the album.

For the painting we discussed ideas about what feelings he wanted to evoke for the cover.  After a few sketches and some chat we agreed on the outline.

The original painting was built with up lots and lots of watercolour layers on A5 paper. I then scanned in the painting and worked on it digitally until we were both happy with it.