Andrew Greenberg is a

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 ...

tabletop role-playing game A tabletop role-playing game (typically abbreviated as TRPG or TTRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a form of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech. Participa ...

s and role-playing video games.

Career

Greenberg was one of

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 Rampant

's original developers on '' Vampire: The Masquerade'' (1991). He was the line editor for ''Vampire'', and as one of the early

World of Darkness ''World of Darkness'' is a series of tabletop role-playing games, originally created by Mark Rein-Hagen for White Wolf Publishing. It began as an annual line of five games in 1991–1995, with '' Vampire: The Masquerade'', '' Werewolf: The Apoca ...

developers, he helped develop the look and tone of that series. He authored the supplement ''Chicago by Night''. After years with White Wolf, he joined Holistic Design, Inc. (HDI), where he co-created '' Fading Suns'' (1996) with Bill Bridges. Greenberg managed video game development at Holistic and worked on computer games like ''

Emperor of the Fading Suns ''Emperor of the Fading Suns'' is a turn-based strategy 4X video game developed by Holistic Design, based on their in-house role-playing game setting '' Fading Suns''. It was released for Microsoft Windows in February 1997. The game had a wide ...

'' and '' Mall Tycoon''. He was a co-writer of ''

Dracula Unleashed ''Dracula Unleashed'' is a 1993 video game created by ICOM Simulations and published by Viacom New Media for the DOS, Macintosh and Sega CD platforms. It was one of the earliest titles to make heavy use of full-motion video as an integral part of ...

''. Greenberg produced a d20 version of the role-playing game '' Rapture: The Second Coming'' (2002). Greenberg helped found the

Mythic Imagination Institute The Mythic Imagination Institute is a non-profit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, whose purpose is to encourage a creative response to life, both individual and collective, through storytelling and mythology: "Every life is a story, and a sto ...

and is co-chair of the

Mythic Journeys Mythic Journeys is a performance festival and conference gathering held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Founded in 2004, it began as a celebration of the works of Joseph Campbell and has expanded into a celebration of the role of myth and sto ...

convention. In 2007, he began teaching video game design classes at the Art Institute of Atlanta.

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