Daedalus Entertainment was a Canadian game company that produced
role-playing games and game supplements.
History
Daedalus Games began when
Robin Laws
Robin D. Laws (born October 14, 1964 in Orillia, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer and game designer who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of a number of novels and role-playing games as well as an anthologist.
Career
Robin D. Laws ...
approached
Jose Garcia in 1993 with an idea for a Hong Kong Action Cinema RPG; Garcia liked the idea, but the RPG ''
Nexus: The Infinite City'' was his first priority, and was published in 1994 with Garcia as the main designer and developer, with Laws,
Bruce Baugh
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, and
Rob Heinsoo
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Places
* Rob, Velike Lašče, a settlement in Slovenia
* Roberts International Airport (IATA code ROB), in Monrovia, Liberia
People
* Rob (given name), a given name or nickname, e.g., for Robert(o), Robin/Robyn
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as additional authors.
Daedalus Games was incorporated as Daedalus Entertainment in preparation for publishing the Hong Kong action game Laws had intended, but Garcia liked the setting that Laws was working on and decided to use it as a basis of a collectible card game to take advantage of the CCG market and Daedalus published this game as ''
Shadowfist'' (1995).
Daedalus Entertainment published the role-playing game ''
Feng Shui'' (1996), designed by Laws using a variant of the ''Nexus'' game system; Laws also designed supplements for ''Feng Shui''.
When the CCG market crashed in 1997, the staff of Daedalus were laid off or quit, leaving Jose Garcia and his sister Maria as the only people working for the company.
Daedalus filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and when the company sold off a few of its properties a few years later, ''Feng Shui'' went to Laws.
had licensed the rights to Daedalus to publish a new edition of ''
Talislanta'' by Robin Laws, but Daedalus faltered before its version saw print.
References
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Role-playing game publishing companies