Fabled Lands: The MMO that Never Was

Art Gallery

As well as taking the time to answer our questions, Dave and Jamie also provided bit-tech with a fair sized chunk of concept work and art from both the Fabled Lands and Abraxas MMO development processes. They provided so much in fact that we weren’t able to squeeze it all into the feature, so we’ve placed it here as a hastily assembled art gallery.

The black and white sketches are mostly from the Abraxas concept and were created by Russ Nicholson, a long-time gamebook illustrator who has worked on many Fighting Fantasy and Games Workshop titles, as well as the original Fabled Lands books. You can see some cover scans and images from these here too.

If you’re interested in seeing more behind-the-scenes work from the games then it’s best to keep an eye on the official Fabled Lands blog, where Dave and Jamie regularly supply a deeper look at both the art and fiction of their projects. If all you want to do is play the gamebooks though, then we'd suggest taking a look at FLapp - a fan-made port of the original gamebooks to Java. It's really rather good.

Either way, click to enlarge any of the images below (and get a piece of setting text!) and be sure to stay tuned for the rest of Made in the UK Week!