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The series had sold over 18 million copies as of 2017, with Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon selling over 350,000 copies in its first year alone. In 1982, Jackson and Livingstone co-wrote The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the first book in the Fighting Fantasy series, but following an instruction from publishers Penguin to write more books "as quickly as possible" the pair wrote subsequent books separately. Livingstone has also invented several board games, including Boom Town, Judge Dredd, Automania, Legend of Zagor, and Dragonmasters. The pair, together with Bryan Ansell, founded Citadel Miniatures in Newark to make miniatures for games. : 46 Livingstone and Jackson sold Games Workshop in 1991 for £10 million. In 1980, Livingstone and Jackson began to develop the concept of the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, the first volume of which ( The Warlock of Firetop Mountain) was published in 1982 by Puffin Books. : 44 Livingstone stepped down as editor of the magazine after White Dwarf #74 (February 1986). Livingstone picked the title, which had meaning for both fantasy and science fiction readers: a white dwarf could be a stellar phenomenon or a fantasy character. In June of that year, partially to advertise the opening, Livingstone and Jackson launched the gaming magazine White Dwarf, with Livingstone as the editor. Under the direction of Livingstone and Jackson, Games Workshop expanded from a bedroom mail order company to a successful gaming manufacturer and retail chain, with the first Games Workshop store opening in Hammersmith in 1977. : 43 Because they were selling products out of their flat, people would come looking for a store that did not exist because of this they were evicted in the summer of 1976. In late 1975, Livingstone and Jackson organised their first convention, the first Games Day. : 43 They began distributing Dungeons & Dragons and other TSR products later in 1975. Livingstone and Jackson felt that this game was more imaginative than anything being produced in the UK at the time, and so worked out an arrangement with Blume for an exclusive deal to sell D&D in Europe. : 43 They started publishing a monthly newsletter, Owl and Weasel, and sent copies of the first issue to subscribers of the recently defunct fanzine Albion Brian Blume received one of these copies, and sent them a copy of the new game Dungeons & Dragons in return. Livingstone co-founded Games Workshop in early 1975 with flatmates John Peake and Steve Jackson. He has kept his close links with the school and has visited it on numerous occasions, including to donate money for a refurbishment of the ICT suite, and to present awards to GCSE recipients in 1998. Livingstone attended Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, where, according to him, he only earned one A-level, in Geography.