Peter Corless
Peter Corless is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Early life Peter Corless was born in New York City in 1964. Career Peter Corless has been part of the gaming industry since the 1980s, first employed at West End Games, where he worked on various projects, from ''Paranoia (role-playing game), Paranoia'' to the ''Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Star Wars Roleplaying Game'' and ''Star Warriors'' board game. Corless gained the rights to ''Pendragon (role-playing game), Pendragon'' - including the fiction line - from Chaosium in 1998 as the result of a loan he had made to Chaosium that was defaulted upon. Using money he made from his regular job at Cisco Systems, Cisco, Corless created the company Green Knight Publishing to publish the ''Pendragon'' fiction and RPG lines. Corless received three roleplaying products and two books of fiction that had been in progress; the book of fiction ''Arthur, the Bear of Britain'' (1998) was ready to go to press and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. Cisco specializes in specific tech markets, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), internet domain, domain security, videoconferencing, and energy management with List of Cisco products, leading products including Webex, OpenDNS, XMPP, Jabber, Duo Security, and Cisco Jasper, Jasper. Cisco is one of the List of largest technology companies by revenue, largest technology companies in the world ranking 74 on the Fortune 100 with over $51 billion in revenue and nearly 80,000 employees. Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, two Stanford University computer scientists who ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, it has a population of 82,376. Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley, and is the location of many high technology companies. In 1956, William Shockley established Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, the first company to develop silicon semiconductor devices in Silicon Valley. Today, Mountain View houses the headquarters of many of the world's largest technology companies, including Google and Alphabet Inc., Unicode Consortium, Intuit, NASA Ames research center, and major headquarter offices for Microsoft, NortonLifeLock, Symantec, 23andMe, LinkedIn, Samsung, and Synopsys. History The Mexican land grant of Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas was given in 1842 by Alta California Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado, Juan Alvarado to Francisco Estrada. This grant was later passed on to Mariano Castro, who sold ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paizo Publishing
Paizo Inc. (originally Paizo Publishing.) is an American role-playing game publishing company based in Redmond, Washington, best known for the tabletop role-playing game ''Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder''. The company's name is derived from the Greek word ''paizō'', which means 'I play' or 'to play'. Paizo also runs an Online shop, online retail store selling role-playing games, gaming aids, board games, comic books, toys, clothing and other products, and has an Internet forum community. History Paizo was formed by Lisa Stevens, Vic Wertz, and Johnny Wilson in 2002 to take over publication of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' magazines ''Dragon (magazine), Dragon'' and ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon'', formerly published in-house by Wizards of the Coast. Paizo publisher Erik Mona is the former editor-in-chief of ''Dragon'', while former editor-in-chief of ''Dungeon'' James Jacobs (game designer), James Jacobs oversees the Pathfinder (periodical), ''Pathfinder'' periodicals. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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White Wolf Publishing
White Wolf Publishing was an American roleplaying game and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion RampantA Brief History of Game #10: Lion Rampant: 1987-1990 RPGnet (Retrieved 14 June 2007) and ''White Wolf Magazine'' (est. 1986 in Rocky Face, GA; it later became "White Wolf Inphobia"), and was initially led by of the former and Steve Wieck and of the latter. White Wolf Publis ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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James Lowder
James Daniel Lowder (born January 2, 1963 in Quincy, Massachusetts) is an American author and editor, working regularly within the fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror genres, and on tabletop role-playing games and critical works exploring popular culture. Early life and education Lowder graduated from Whitman-Hanson Regional High School in 1981 and was inducted into the high school's hall of fame in 1991. While at Whitman-Hanson, he wrote and edited for the school newspaper and yearbook, and did the same for two summers at Project Contemporary Competitiveness at Bridgewater State University. In 1985 he graduated from Marquette University with an honors BA in English and History. While at Marquette, he edited and wrote for the '' Marquette Journal'', the school's literary magazine. After Marquette, he took graduate classes in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he also taught writing, film, and fantasy literature courses. Lowder completed a Masters ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roderick Robertson
Roderick, Rodrick or Roderic ( Proto-Germanic ''* Hrōþirīks'', from ''* hrōþiz'' "fame, glory" + ''* ríks'' "king, ruler") is a Germanic name, recorded from the 8th century onward.Förstemann, ''Altdeutsches Namenbuch'' (1856)740 Its Old High German forms are ''Hrodric, Chrodericus, Hroderich, Roderich, Ruodrich'' (etc.); in Gothic language ''Hrōþireiks''; in Old English language it appears as ''Hrēðrīc'' or ''Hroðrīc'', and in Old Norse as ''Hrǿríkʀ'' (Old East Norse ''Hrø̄rīkʀ'', ''Rø̄rīkʀ'', Old West Norse as ''Hrœrekr, Rœrekr''). In the 12th-century ''Primary chronicle'', the name is reflected as , i.e. ''Rurik''. In Spanish and Portuguese, it was rendered as '' Rodrigo'', or in its short form, ''Ruy, Rui, or Ruiz'', and in Galician, the name is ''Roi''. In Arabic, the form ''Ludhriq'' (لذريق), used to refer Roderic (Ulfilan Gothic ''*Hroþareiks''), the last king of the Visigoths. Saint Roderick (d. 857) is one of the Martyrs of C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shannon Appelcline
Shannon Appelcline is a game designer and game historian. Career Shannon Appelcline writes columns for Skotos Tech. Appelcline and Christopher Allen wrote articles on the subject of how game systems work at Christopher Allen's blog, Life with Alacrity. Appelcline is a writer and technologist, and with Christopher Allen he wrote ''iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development'', an introductory tutorial which teaches the basics of both native (SDK) and web programming for the iPhone, and which also introduces Objective-C. Appelcline is the lead designer at Skotos, and he has written about emergent cultures within the games he designs (2000–2006). Appelcline wrote the book '' Designers & Dragons'', published in 2011 by Mongoose Publishing. René Reinhold Schallegger wrote that for his 2018 book ''The Postmodern Joy of Role-Playing Games: Agency, Ritual and Meaning in the Medium'', one of the central texts for the chapter "Generations: The Origins and Development of RPG ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Green Knight Publishing
Green Knight Publishing was founded by Peter Corless in 1998. He had acquired the rights to Chaosium's award-winning ''Pendragon RPG, Pendragon'' role-playing game after they defaulted on a loan from Corless with Pendragon as collateral. From 1999 to 2001, Green Knight published supplements for the role-playing game, in which players take on the roles of knights and ladies performing chivalric deeds in Arthurian Britain. Under the direction of executive editor James Lowder and consulting editor Raymond H. Thompson, Green Knight also continued the Pendragon (fiction series), Pendragon fiction series, which offered reprints of "lost" classics of Arthurian fiction, as well as original novels and anthologies. The company sold the rights to the Pendragon RPG to White Wolf, Inc. in 2004. Green Knight RPG releases * ''King Arthur Pendragon'', 4th edition (GK2716, 1999). Written by Greg Stafford with Sam Shirley. Reprint of Chaosium's CHA2716, 1993. * ''Lordly Domains'' (GK2719, 1999). Writ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chaosium
Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include '' Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', RuneQuest Glorantha'', ''Pendragon'', based on Thomas Mallory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', and '' 7th Sea'', "swashbuckling and sorcery" set in a fantasy 17th century Europe. Many of Chaosium’s product lines are based upon literary sources. While Stafford himself has been described as "one of the most decorated game designers of all time" and "the grand shaman of gaming", multiple other notable game designers have written for Chaosium. These include David Conyers, Matthew Costello, Larry DiTillio, Paul Fricker, David A. Hargrave, Rob Heinsoo, Keith Herber, Jennell Jaquays, Katharine Kerr, Reiner Knizia, Charlie Krank, Robin Laws, Penelope Love, Mark Morrison, Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, Ken Rolston, Ken St. Andre, Jonathan Tweet, John Wick, and Lynn Willis, among others. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |