Ray Greer

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Ray Greer
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

Ray Greer is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Career

George MacDonald and Steve Peterson opened an office for their company Hero Games in 1982 and invited Ray Greer to join the company as a partner in charge of marketing and sales. [1] : 146  Greer went to work at Steve Jackson Games by 1986, and then went to work for the special effects company owned by Mark Williams. [1] : 147  Peterson founded the company Hero Software and built a team to create a Champions computer game, and Greer joined this team later, but the project was never completed. [1] : 148  Greer, Peterson and Bruce Harlick, were involved in the Hero Games partnership with R. Talsorian Games that began in 1996. [1] : 150  Mike Pondsmith of R. Talsorian, and Hero Games owners Peterson and Greer constructed conversion rules to link Interlock and Hero Games, resulting in the Fuzion system. [1] : 211  Pondsmith, Peterson, and Greer jointly hold the rights to Fuzion. [1] : 150 

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