Holistic Design

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Holistic Design, Inc. (HDI), is an American game company. [1]

It was founded in 1992 [2] as Several Dudes Holistic Gaming. The company has developed many computer games in its history, including Battles of Destiny , Hammer of the Gods , [3] Final Liberation , Merchant Prince series, [2] [3] Emperor of the Fading Suns , [4] and Mall Tycoon . [5] HDI also has a number of miniatures games in its inventory, including Noble Armada, Carnage and Combat Zone.

Their most famous product is perhaps its role-playing game Fading Suns , [6] but they also have a number of other RPGs to their credit, such as Rapture: The Second Coming , and their Real-Life Roleplaying series covering Afghanistan, Colombia, Somalia, and the FBI. In 2011, the company entered into an arrangement with RedBrick to continue the creation and publication of Fading Suns as a tabletop RPG. The company also announced a tablet game called Noble Armada which has not yet been released. [7]

In 2014, the company made arrangements for FASA Games to continue the same arrangement, which has produced a new core rulebook with plans for reprinting old ones. [8] Only one of the original partners is still with the company, Ken Lightner, though the other current partners bring a broad array of game design skills to the firm, most notably Bill Bridges, Andrew Greenberg and Chris Wiese.

References

  1. ↑ Tinsman, Brian (2008). The Game Inventor's Guidebook: How to Invent and Sell Board Games, Card Games, Role-Playing Games, & Everything in Between!. Morgan James Publishing. p. 235. ISBN   978-1600377907.
  2. 1 2 "Red Storm and Holistic Designs Create Bio-Strike". Business Wire (Press release). November 28, 2000.
  3. 1 2 Warren, Christopher C. (March 24, 1995). "Multi-Media Fair offers opportunity to get interactive; New technology will be on display". The Atlanta Journal and Constitution . p. 1J.
  4. ↑ "SegaSoft Launches Jack Hammer Brand; Company unveils first three non-stop action titles under new umbrella". Business Wire (Press release). July 30, 1996.
  5. ↑ Conlin, Shaun (December 27, 2001). "Build and run your own mall". The Leader-Post . p. A10.
  6. ↑ Williams, J. Patrick; Hendricks, Sean Q.; Winkler, W. Keith (2006). Gaming As Culture: Essays on Reality, Identity And Experience in Fantasy Games. McFarland. p. 4. ISBN   0786424362.
  7. ↑ Noble Armada invading a tablet near you. HDI. 2011.
  8. ↑ Welcome to Fading Suns. FASA. 2013.
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