Sam Lewis is an American designer of

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s and former line developer of the '' Renegade Legion'' line in

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. He was also president of FASA for a time.

Background

He holds an MBA in economics from

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, which he obtained in 1983. In 1983, he was credited as the designers of

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' ''Dragonriders of Pern'' licensed game after a novel by

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. After

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founded the company which would become

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, Sam Lewis became president of

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. By 1994, '' Renegade Legion'' had been dropped from production, and when

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- president of Crunchy Frog Enterprises - sought a full ''

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'' license from FASA, Lewis convinced Lidberg to license ''Renegade Legion'' instead. For FASA, he created the individual combat game ''

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'' in their ''

'' game universe, and is credited for the adaption thereof under the name ''DMZ'' in the ''

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'' universe. Apart from that, he was responsible for the ''RL'' game line and their setting until FASA ended the line in 1995 and licensed the game world to Crunchy Frog Enterprises. Afterwards, he did lead GameStorm, a service of Kesmai Corporation. Other works since then include production work for

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and design work for

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lines. He has also worked for Cartoon Network as lead game designer on the game

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. Currently he is a senior game designer for ZeniMax Media

References

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