Developer of some of the world's most popular and polished board games, Fantasy Flight Games, has announced that creation of a new video game development branch, called Fantasy Flight Interactive. With plans to turn some of its more beloved tabletop games into digital products, the American company has hired on Tim Gerritsen, former business development director at Prey studio, Human Head, to run it.
"Fans can anticipate richly strategic experiences with easy-to-understand UI, built from the ground up for Steam," said Fantasy Flight Games founder Christian T. Petersen (via PCGamer). "We're focused on the bigger picture of the experiences our fans can have on new platforms, and this will take our brands in new directions."
The initial plan is to convert some of Fantasy Flight Games' existing board game properties into digital products that can be played on the PC - perhaps FFG saw how popular many of its titles are on free play platforms like tabletop simulator - but beyond that it will also look to develop new, digital properties based on some of the licenses it holds.
"We’re incredibly excited to be bringing Fantasy Flight Games’ best game properties to life as amazing video game experiences," Gerritsen said in a statement. "Fantasy Flight Interactive is made up of developers who love both tabletop games and video games and we are striving to create games that capture the best aspects of both media to entertain our fans."
As one of the most prolific board game developers, Fantasy Flight has a lot of licenses it could play with. There are games based on Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Arkham Horror, Star Wars, Runebound and Android, among others.
What Fantasy Flight games would you like to see brought to digital? I wouldn't mind a Game of Thrones board game port.
