History
| “ | ...it was inevitable that I would get round to designing a Dracula boardgame. | ” |
|
—Stephen Hand, In Search of the Real Dracula |
||
Disappointed in the limited availability of horror boardgames, Stephen Hand began the initial treatment of his Dracula-based horror game in 1985. He had originally conceived it as a two-game set entitled Dracula: Fact and Fiction, one part fantasy game, and one part a dry, historical simulation of Vlad the Impaler's Turkish campaigns, but Hand shelved the project after being unable to devote enough time to it. A short time later, he resurrected the project after receiving encouragement from Marc Gascoigne, eventually submitting the finished project to Games Workshop in the summer of 1986. Although Workshop liked the game, they put the game on hold while they focused on stronger products, offering Hand a choice of waiting for a suitable production gap to appear, or converting the game to fit into the Warhammer Fantasy World. Games Workshop ultimately produced The Fury of Dracula and released it in the autumn of 1987.
Read more about this topic: The Fury Of Dracula
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice—although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)