Andrew Greenberg

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Andrew Greenberg
NationalityAmerican
Occupation Game designer
Years active1991–present
Notable work
Vampire: The Masquerade
Mage: The Ascension
Fading Suns
Final Liberation

Andrew Greenberg is a game designer of tabletop role-playing games and role-playing video games. [1] [2]

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Career

Greenberg was one of White Wolf Publishing's [2] original developers on Vampire: The Masquerade (1991). [3] [4] He was the line editor for Vampire, and as one of the early World of Darkness developers, he helped develop the look and tone of that series. [5] He authored the supplement Chicago by Night. [6] After years with White Wolf, he joined Holistic Design, Inc. (HDI), [7] [8] [9] where he co-created Fading Suns (1996) with Bill Bridges. [7] Greenberg managed video game development at Holistic [10] and worked on computer games like Emperor of the Fading Suns and Mall Tycoon . [3] He was a co-writer of Dracula Unleashed . [11] Greenberg produced a d20 version of the role-playing game Rapture: The Second Coming (2002). [10]

Greenberg helped found the Mythic Imagination Institute and is co-chair of the Mythic Journeys convention. In 2007, he began teaching video game design classes at the Art Institute of Atlanta. [12] [13]

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