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Jose Garcia | |
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| Nationality | Canadian [ citation needed ] |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Jose Garcia is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
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Jose Garcia | |
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| Nationality | Canadian [ citation needed ] |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Jose Garcia is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Jose Garcia started Daedalus Games in 1993 when Robin Laws came to him with an idea for a role-playing game based on Hong Kong Action Cinema films; Garcia liked the idea, but his first priority was own RPG Nexus: The Infinite City , so Daedalus published Nexus in 1994 with Garcia as the main designer and developer, with additional authors including Laws, Bruce Baugh, and Rob Heinsoo. [1] : 256 Garcia was also interested in promoting the setting that Laws was developing, which was first used for a collectible card game Daedalus published as Shadowfist (1995), [1] : 256 and subsequently in Laws' Feng Shui RPG.[ citation needed ] When the CCG market crashed in 1997, the staff of Daedalus were either laid off or quit, leaving Jose Garcia and his sister Maria as the only people remaining with the company. [1] : 256 A few years later the company entered bankruptcy protection and sold off its intellectual properties,[ citation needed ] after which Garcia moved to Europe and left the gaming industry. [1] : 256
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