Jesse Scoble is a Canadian

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 game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

Career

Jesse Scoble was

Mark C. MacKinnon Mark C. MacKinnon is a Canadian politician, entrepreneur, and designer of roleplaying games. MacKinnon is the founder of Guardians of Order (GoO), and has produced work in the ''anime'' genre. His initial release, ''Big Eyes, Small Mouth'', led ...

's game master, and Scoble became an employee of

Guardians of Order Guardians of Order was a Canadian company founded in 1996 by Mark C. MacKinnon in Guelph, Ontario. The company's business output consisted of role-playing games (RPGs). Their first game is the anime inspired ''Big Eyes, Small Mouth''. In 2006 Gua ...

a few years after MacKinnon started the game company. Scoble designed the ''

El-Hazard Role-Playing Game The ''El-Hazard Role-Playing Game'' is a role-playing game published by Guardians of Order in 2001. Description The ''El-Hazard Role-Playing Game'' is based on the first '' El-Hazard'' anime OVA series and with rules based on the company's Tri-S ...

'' (2001), another licensed property for Guardians of Order. The superhero role-playing game ''

Silver Age Sentinels ''Silver Age Sentinels'' is a superhero role-playing game (RPG) published in 2002 by Guardians of Order, creators of ''Big Eyes, Small Mouth'', an anime-themed RPG. History Guardians of Order moved into the d20 market beginning with their new ...

'' (2002) was written by MacKinnon, Jeff Mackintosh and Scoble, with

Steve Kenson Steve Kenson (born June 16, 1969) is a writer and designer of role-playing games (RPGs) and related fiction. Career Steve Kenson began working as an author and game designer in 1995. Kenson co-wrote the super-hero role-playing game ''Silver Age ...

and developed by

Lucien Soulban Lucien Moussa Shukri Soulban is a Saudi Arabian game designer and writer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Personal life Lucien Soulban was born in Saudi Arabia, where he lived for 12 years before attending school in Texas. He la ...

. He wrote the world bible for the ''Silver Age Sentinels'' superhero game line. Scoble oversaw the development of the role-playing game based on ''

A Song of Ice and Fire ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, ''A Game of Thrones'', in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who init ...

'', which was published as ''

A Game of Thrones ''A Game of Thrones'' is the first novel in ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', a series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for both ...

'' (2005). He was creative director on the award-winning ''A Game of Thrones RPG''. He has contributed to more than two dozen books, including two short-story anthologies (based on ''Silver Age Sentinels''), and several books for

White Wolf A white wolf or Arctic wolf is a mammal of the ''Canidae'' family and a subspecies of the gray wolf. It may also refer to: Organizations * White Wolf (band), a Canadian heavy metal band * White Wolf (band), white power oi band from the USA * Whi ...

. He has also worked as a web content writer for NCsoft, crafting Web and event fiction for a series of massively multi-player online games, including ''

City of Heroes ''City of Heroes'' (''CoH'') was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game which was developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCSOFT. The game was launched in North America on April 28, 2004, and in Europe by NCsoft Europe on Febru ...

'', ''

Dungeon Runners ''Dungeon Runners'' was a medieval fantasy, often satirical MMORPG developed and published by NCSOFT. It featured gameplay similar to the '' Diablo'' series of games. Development Development on the title first began in 2001 as ''Trade Wars: Dar ...

'', and ''

Exteel ''Exteel'' was a third-person shooter game published by NCSOFT, a Korean game company, and was developed by NCSOFT's . Players controlled giant vehicles called Mechanaughts ("mecha") and fought against the computer, or against other online playe ...

''. After living for a year in Texas, Scoble returned to Canada to work freelance and work on writing screenplays.

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