The last year or so has been a bit of a drier spell than usual for mobile gamebook fans, and much of that can be attributed to the relative absence of new Tin Man Games releases. Facing an increasingly challenging market for this sort of game in the App Store, Tin Man took some time to try a few new ideas. There was the subscription-based story hub Choices That Matter [Free], a visual novel based on Miss Fisher [Free], and the board game-like Warlock of Firetop Mountain [$4.99]. Having stretched their legs a little, Tin Man is ready to come back to the gamebook format that the company was built on with Fighting Fantasy Classics [Free], now available in the App Store.
Tin Man is no stranger to Fighting Fantasy; you can still find many of the stand-alone apps they produced based on the series of popular role-playing novels on the App Store, in fact. But having so many different gamebook apps was likely starting to be a hassle when it came time for updates. The fact that they shared the same engine probably made that work even more frustrating, as they likely had to do similar work and submissions for a few dozen apps every time. Fighting Fantasy Classics solves that problem by giving players a single hub from which all of Tin Man's future conversions can be played. That makes things more convenient for players, and easier for Tin Man when it needs to update.
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