Greg Porter is an American
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 ...
who has worked primarily on
role-playing games.
Career
Greg Porter's
Blacksburg Tactical Research Center
Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC) is an American game publishing company best known for the TimeLords, Macho Women with Guns, and EABA role-playing games. They have produced a variety of role-playing games, card games, and board games. ...
was one of a few game companies active in
Blacksburg, Virginia
Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 44,826 at the 2020 census. Blacksburg, as well as the surrounding county, is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of ...
in the 1980s and 1990s.
Porter initially came to attention for designing ''
TimeLords'' and ''
Macho Women with Guns'' RPGs in the late 1980s; he then put his energy into two successive generic RPG systems, ''
CORPS
Corps (; plural ''corps'' ; from French , from the Latin "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon I, the formation was first named as such in 1805. The size of a corps varies great ...
'' and ''
EABA
The ''End All Be All'' game system, commonly known as ''EABA'' and pronounced "ee-buh", is a role-playing game system from Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC). It is a generic gaming system designed to adapt to any imaginary gaming envi ...
''.
Porter subsequently wrote articles for
Hogshead Publishing
Hogshead Publishing was a British game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements.
History
In October 1994, James Wallis founded Hogshead Publishing, a company which specialised in role-playing and storytelling games. Wallis b ...
's
''Inter*action'' magazine.
He also did work for
Imperium Games
Imperium Games was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements.
History
Marc W. Miller partnered with Sweetpea Entertainment to license his science-fiction property '' Traveller'' in exchange for funding to ...
, writing about equipment and vehicles for the fourth edition of ''
Traveller''.
After meeting
Ron Edwards and other members of
The Forge in 2002, Porter became increasingly involved in the
indie role-playing game
An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside traditional, "mainstream" means. Varying definitions require that commercial, design, or conceptual elements of the game stay under the control of the creator, or that the gam ...
movement.
References
Further reading
* D. Mackay, ''The Fantasy Role-Playing Game: A New Performing Art'', MacFarland & Company, 2001. , pp 25,26,158,173-174
External links
*
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GURPS writers
Living people
Role-playing game designers
Year of birth missing (living people)