Josh Mosqueira-Asheim is a game designer of both tabletop games and video games, and was game director during the creation of ''

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'' at

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Early life

Josh Mosqueira, of Canadian-Mexican descent, played tabletop games ''

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'' and ''

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'' while growing up in Canada. While attending university, he also served in the

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as a member of the

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Tabletop games

In 1996, while still serving in the military and finishing university, Mosqueira became a writer for

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, co-authoring two books for the '' Vampire: The Masquerade'' horror role-playing game, '' Constantinople by Night'' and ''Montreal by Night''. He also co-authored the ''

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'' (1998) swords-and-sorcery post-apocalyptic fantasy role-playing game for

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. His first full-time job was with

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, where he worked on a variety of video games including ''

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'', '' Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War'', and ''

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''. He was the Lead Designer for ''

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'' in 2003. For his work on '' Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts'' in 2008, he earned an Elan Award for outstanding innovation in gaming. After seven years with Relic, Mosqueira moved to

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in 2008 to work on ''

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'' for

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. In February 2011, Mosqueira was called by a friend, Jay Wilson, who had worked with him on ''Company of Heroes'' while they were both at Relic and was now working at

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, where he was the game director of ''Diablo III''. He had called Mosqueira because one of Mosqueira's Ubisoft colleagues had applied for a position as lead designer of the console version of ''Diablo III''. After a few minutes of conversation, Wilson instead offered the position to Mosqueira. Montreal winters were too cold for Mosqueira's liking, so he accepted the position and moved to California. Two years later, Jay Wilson left Blizzard, and Mosqueira replaced him as Lead Designer of ''Diablo III''. In 2016, Mosqueira left Blizzard. In 2017, he became part of the start-up team for Bonfire Studios located in

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, California.

References

External links

* *https://archive.org/details/GDC2015Mosqueira
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