Gareth-Michael Skarka is an

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and game designer who founded Adamant Entertainment and has worked primarily on e-published

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Career

Gareth-Michael Skarka's cinematic '' Hong Kong Action Theatre!'' (1996) was first published by the small-press RPG company Event Horizon Productions. Skarka co-authored the swashbuckling ''Skull & Bones'' (2003) campaign background for

Green Ronin Publishing Green Ronin Publishing is an American company based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Chris Pramas and Nicole Lindroos, they have published several role-playing game–related products. They won several awards for their games includin ...

's ''Mythic Vistas'' series. Based in

Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70, between the Kansas River, Kansas and Waka ...

, Skarka started his company Adamant Entertainment in 2003, publishing material almost entirely for the electronic market, and with a focus on role-playing games. Skarka later supported ''Skull & Bones'' by his own Adamant Entertainment. When regular

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editor

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was busy with a consultancy contract, Skarka stepped in to edit ''

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'' (2008). Adamant Entertainment has designed licensed role-playing downloads for ''

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and'' ''

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'' along with original worlds.

Unreleased transmedia game

In 2011, Skarka ran a

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campaign which attracted $49,324 in funding for development and publication of his ''Far West'' role-playing game, and had regularly posted updates to his Kickstarter after missing deadlines. ''Far West'' was intended as a transmedia project including a fiction collection (''Tales of the Far West'', published in e-book format 30 January 2012) and a role-playing game (''Far West Adventure Game'', intended for release in December 2011, but still incomplete as of the 10th anniversary of the project’s successful funding). Skarka maintains that he intends to release the product despite the fact that no progress has been demonstrated for over a decade.

References

External links

Gareth-Michael Skarka :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
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