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John Zinser (game Designer)
John Zinser is an American game designer who has worked primarily on collectible card games and role-playing games. Career In 1992, Jolly Blackburn added John Zinser and David Seay as partners in Alderac Entertainment Group. In 1994, Zinser was working on an original CCG, ''Legend of the Five Rings'', which began as an idea from a conversation between Zinser and Seay discussing the 1980 RPG ''Bushido''. Blackburn left Alderac in 1995 because he felt that Zinser and Seay were looking for success in the CCG industry while he wanted to keep the company fun and small and focus on ''Knights of the Dinner Table''. According to Zinser, he wanted the in debt company to grow at a faster pace than Blackburn was comfortable with. so, a split was agreed upon, with Blackburn leaving with the rights to ''Knights of the Dinner Table'' and a few other properties. In 1996 Five Rings Publishing Group was formed, with Robert Abramowitz as the President of the new company, Ryan Dancey becoming VP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legend Of The Five Rings (collectible Card Game)
''Legend of the Five Rings'' (''L5R'') is an out-of-print collectible card game created by a joint venture featuring Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA in 1995 and published until 2015, when it was announced that the game would be discontinued for a rules-incompatible successor that will be part of Fantasy Flight Games' Living Card Game line. ''L5R'' takes place in the fictional empire of Rokugan from the ''Legend of the Five Rings'' setting, where several clans and factions vie for domination over the empire. The card game shares some similarities with ''Magic: The Gathering'' but has its own game mechanics and flavor, providing "passive" win conditions like the Enlightenment Victory, as well as a version of ''Magics goal of destroying the opponent. Games can be very long, with some matches lasting hours. A major distinctive feature of the game is the importance of the storyline: new fiction pieces advancing the story of Rokugan are published on a weekly basis, in additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Hell On Earth
Hell on Earth may refer to: Film and television * ''Hell on Earth'' (film), a 1931 German war film directed by Victor Trivas * ''Hell on Earth'', a 2007 television film featuring Kyla Pratt * ''Hell on Earth'', a 2008 film directed by Ted A. Bohus * ''Hell on Earth'', a documentary presented by Mark Kermode about the film ''The Devils'' * '' Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth'', a 1992 horror film * "Hell on Earth" (''Smash''), an episode of ''Smash'' * "Hell on Earth 2006", an episode of ''South Park'' Games * '' Doom II: Hell on Earth'', the sequel to ''Doom'' * '' Deadlands: Hell on Earth'', an alternate-history role-playing game * "Hell on Earth", a level of ''Doom Eternal'' Literature * Hell on Earth (book series), a dark paranormal novel series by Jackie Kessler * ''Hell on Earth'', a 1985 DC Graphic Novel by Robert Bloch et al. * ''B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth'', a story cycle in Mike Mignola's ''B.P.R.D.'' comics series Music * Hell on Earth (band), an American industrial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinnacle Entertainment Group
Pinnacle Entertainment Group is a publisher of role-playing games and wargames. History When Shane Lacy Hensley decided to create a 19th-century miniatures game he contacted Charles Ryan's company Chameleon Eclectic about publishing it. The result was '' Fields of Honor: The American War for Independence'' (1994), published in conjunction with Chameleon Eclectic, who dealt with distribution and other things that Hensley was not ready for, but ownership of the game remained with a new company that Hensley had created called Pinnacle Entertainment Group. The next year, Pinnacle and Chameleon Eclectic published ''The Last Crusade'' (1995), John Hopler's World War II CCG, the last product produced jointly between the two companies. When he completed the first draft of the game ''Deadlands'', Hensley flew in two friends and game designers, Greg Gorden and Matt Forbeck, who liked what they saw and asked to buy into the company; although Gordon later had to leave for personal reasons, For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Dancey
Ryan S. Dancey is a businessman who has worked primarily in the collectible card game and role-playing game industries. He was vice president in charge of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' at Wizards of the Coast. When the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons was facing bankruptcy, Dancey helped negotiate sale of the property to Wizards of the Coast. Dancey promoted the D&D's open gaming license (OGL), which reversed the policy from opposing third-party publications to supporting them. Career Dancey was the owner of distributor Isomedia Inc, which was helping to fund ''Legend of the Five Rings'' (1995), and he joined in on the project. In 1996 the principals behind the game created a new company with better funding, calling it Five Rings Publishing Group. Robert Abramowitz became the President of the new company, and Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) and Isomedia gave over their rights to ''Legend of the Five Rings'', with Dancey becoming Vice President of Product Development and John Zins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Rings Publishing Group
The Five Rings Publishing Group (FRPG) was formed as a spin-out of Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA. History In 1996, Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) and ISOMEDIA divested themselves of their joint operating venture, and created Five Rings Publishing Group. Using the joint venture the two companies had co-created the ''Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game'' in 1995, and realized that in order to continue to successfully publish the game that a stand-alone company focused on the game-publishing business was the best solution. FRPG was incorporated in the spring of 1996, and was funded by a pool of investors recruited in the Seattle area by Robert (Bob) Abramowitz, who became the CEO of the new company. John Zinser, CEO of AEG took the additional role of VP of Sales, and Ryan S. Dancey of ISOMEDIA left the company to become the full-time VP of Product Development for FRPG. Other initial staff at FRPG included Mindy Sherwood-Lewis, Philip Lewis, Arnold Koppel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knights Of The Dinner Table
''Knights of the Dinner Table'' (''KoDT'') is a comic book/strip created by Jolly R. Blackburn and published by Kenzer & Company. It primarily focuses on a group of role playing gamers and their actions at the gaming table, which often result in unfortunate, but humorous consequences in the game. The name is a parody of King Arthur's Round Table reinforced by the truism that roleplaying aficionados often end up sitting round their host's dinner table as it is the only one large enough to accommodate the party (4 to 8 people typically). The comic The panels are written by Blackburn, and given that he had no formal art training, the characters are drawn in simple caricatures which are scanned onto a computer and are continuously reused. Many of the stories presented in ''KoDT'' are based on actual in-game experiences of the developers or readers, who are encouraged to submit story ideas. Part of the comic's popularity stems from the reader's ability to relate to the characters and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bushido (role-playing Game)
''Bushido'' is a Samurai role-playing game set in Feudal Japan, originally designed by Robert N. Charrette and Paul R. Hume and published originally by Tyr Games, then Phoenix Games, and subsequently by Fantasy Games Unlimited. The setting for the game is a land called Nippon, and characters adventure in this heroic, mythic, and fantastic analogue of Japan's past. It is thematically based on Chanbara movies, such as those made by Akira Kurosawa, in which the heroes are modestly superhuman but not extraordinarily so. Overview The ''Bushido'' role-playing game was originally published in 1979 by Tyr Games (which quickly went out of business) but was more widely released in 1980 by Phoenix Games as a boxed set. This edition included a map of Nippon, a tri-fold screen, a character sheet, ''Book I, The Heroes of Nippon'', the Players Guidebook and ''Book II, The Land of Nippon'', the Gamesmaster's Guidebook. All illustrations in the original boxed set are copyright by Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collectible Card Game
A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) among other names, is a type of card game that mixes strategy game, strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards, introduced with ''Magic: The Gathering'' in 1993. Generally a Player (game), player may begin playing a CCG with a pre-made Booster pack#Starter deck, starter deck, and then customize their deck with a random assortment of cards acquired through booster packs, or from trading with other players, building up their own library of cards. As a player obtains more cards, they may create new decks from scratch from their library. Players are challenged to construct a deck within limits set by the CCG's rules that will allow them to outlast decks constructed by other players. Games are commonly played between two players, though Multiplayer game, multiplayer formats are also common. Gameplay in CCG is typically turn-based, with each player starting with a shuffled deck and on their turn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Designer
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in the form of gamification. Game designer and developer Robert Zubek defines game design by breaking it down into its elements, which he says are the following: * Gameplay, which is the interaction between the player and the mechanics and systems * Mechanics and systems, which are the rules and objects in the game * Player experience, which is how users feel when they're playing the game Games such as board games, card games, dice games, casino games, role-playing games, sports, video games, war games, or simulation games benefit from the principles of game design. Academically, game design is part of game studies, while game theory studies strategic decision making (primarily in non-game situations). Games have historically inspired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alderac Entertainment Group
Alderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of role-playing game, board game, and collectible card game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn in 1993 and is based in the city of Ontario, California. Prior to getting into their current markets, AEG was involved in hobby gaming magazines, with their first product the magazine ''Shadis'' (winner of the 1994, 1995, and 1996 Origins Awards for ''Best Professional Gaming Magazine''). Including the three for ''Shadis'' mentioned above, AEG products have garnered eight Origins Awards (see the individual articles noted below for more details). In 2009, AEG entered the board games market with 10 new board game releases. Notable successes include Thunderstone (card game), Thunderstone and Smash Up. Products Collectible card games * ''7th Sea Collectible Card Game'' (Multiple Origins Award winner) * ''City of Heroes Collectible Card Game'' * ''Doomtown Collectible Card Game'' (Multiple Origins Award winner) * ''Hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
