 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(April 2024) |
Eric Goldberg | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Eric Goldberg is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
| | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(April 2024) |
Eric Goldberg | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Eric Goldberg is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Eric Goldberg designed Commando , a man-to-man game of tactical combat which also included systems for character creation and skills, published by Simulations Publications, Incorporated (SPI). [1] : 99 Goldberg also designed DragonQuest (1980), the largest role-playing game from SPI. [1] : 99 Goldberg also contributed to Thieves' World (1981) from Chaosium. [1] : 85 Goldberg had been friends with Greg Costikyan for years and also worked at SPI with him, and they talked to Dan Gelber about making a professional game out of the role-playing game design that Gelber called "Paranoia" and ran for his local game group. [1] : 186 Gelber gave Goldberg and Costikyan his notes and they developed those ideas into a full manuscript for an RPG. [1] : 186 During his time working at SPI, Goldberg also designed Eric Goldberg's KURSK which was subsequently published in 1980; this project was the 2nd Edition of SPI's original KURSK game (1971).[ citation needed ] Goldberg started working for West End Games in 1983 as its new Vice President of Research & Development. [1] : 187 Gelber, Costikyan, and Goldberg were therefore able to license their Paranoia game to West End Games, and Ken Rolston helped rewrite the rules before it was published in 1984. [1] : 187 Goldberg designed Tales of the Arabian Nights (1985) for West End, a storytelling board game based on written paragraphs. [1] : 189
Costikyan and Goldberg left West End Games in January 1987, forming the short-lived game company Goldberg Associates. [1] : 191 West End Games declared bankruptcy in 1998, so Costikyan and Goldberg tried to recover the rights to Paranoia but West End Games founder Scott Palter resisted, and a judge gave the rights back to the creators in 2000. [1] : 194 Costikyan and Goldberg licensed Paranoia to Mongoose Publishing, which began producing new books for the game in 2004. [1] : 398 In writing the new edition called Paranoia XP, Varney, Goldberg and Costikyan reached out to and actively collaborated with Paranoia's online fan community through an official blog and through Paranoia-Live.net. [2]
In 2019, Goldberg and Raph Koster founded a new company, Playable Worlds, and are currently developing an as-yet-unnamed MMORPG.
Paranoia is a dystopian science-fiction tabletop role-playing game originally designed and written by Greg Costikyan, Dan Gelber, and Eric Goldberg, and first published in 1984 by West End Games. Since 2004 the game has been published under license by Mongoose Publishing. The game won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1984 and was inducted into the Origins Awards Hall of Fame in 2007. Paranoia is notable among tabletop games for being more competitive than co-operative, with players encouraged to betray one another for their own interests, as well as for keeping a light-hearted, tongue in cheek tone despite its dystopian setting.
West End Games (WEG) was a company that made board, role-playing, and war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York City, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its product lines included Star Wars, Paranoia, Torg, DC Universe, and Junta.
Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) was an American publisher of board wargames and related magazines, particularly its flagship Strategy & Tactics, in the 1970s and early 1980s. It produced an enormous number of games and introduced innovative practices, changing the course of the wargaming hobby in its bid to take control of the hobby away from then-dominant Avalon Hill. SPI ran out of cash in early 1982 when TSR called in a loan secured by SPI's assets. TSR began selling SPI's inventory in 1982, but later acquired the company's trademarks and copyrights in 1983 and continued a form of the operation until 1987.
Greg Costikyan, sometimes known under the pseudonym "Designer X", is an American game designer and science fiction writer. Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming, including: hex-based wargames, role-playing games, boardgames, card games, computer games, online games, and mobile games. Several of his games have won Origins Awards. He co-founded Manifesto Games, now out of business, with Johnny Wilson in 2005.
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Ken Rolston is an American computer game and role-playing game designer best known for his work with West End Games and on the computer game series The Elder Scrolls. In February 2007, he elected to join the staff of computer games company Big Huge Games to create a new role-playing game.
Challenge was a role-playing game magazine published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) between 1986 and 1996.
Redmond Aksel Simonsen was an American graphic artist and game designer best known for his work at the board wargame company Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in the 1970s and early 1980s. Simonsen was considered an innovator in game information graphics, and is credited with creating the term "game designer".
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Greg Gorden is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
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Daniel Scott Palter was a game designer who worked primarily on wargames and role-playing games.
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Commando is a role-playing game published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1979.
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